The Partisans and the Persuadables: Public Views of Black Lives Matter and the 2020 Protests

Drakulich, Kevin M.; Denver, Megan

doi:10.1017/s1537592721004114

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“…A more recent study about the partisan impact on the attitudes toward BLM also echoes the previous findings. Using the 2020 BLM movement as a case, for instance, Drakulich and Denver (2022) showed that the partisan impact still holds. These studies as well as literature about frontlash collectively suggest that it is important to consider the effect of partisanship on the BLM opinion.…”

Section: Political Ideology and Protest Perceptionmentioning

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Did Black Lives Matter Protests Change Public Opinion?

Boehmke,

Avery,

Good

et al. 2023

American Politics Research

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Protest events affect public opinion on the issue of interest. However, the extent to which an individual’s proximity to protests impacts public opinion is less examined. Does a protest event occurring nearby, i.e., within an individual’s neighborhood, impact their opinion? Do protests that happen further away, perhaps in the next county, have the same impact on public opinion? This study analyzes the impact of exposure to protests by focusing on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in 2020 using public opinion data from Iowa merged with protest locations in Iowa. Specifically, we examine public support for BLM and for defunding the police. We evaluate the role of distance through a discrete mileage cut-off and a distance decay function. Our analysis shows that people living closer to protests show greater support for the BLM movement in general and, to a less extent, for defunding the police. The results suggest that protests may affect public opinion, but only within a very narrow range of a few miles.

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Section: Political Ideology and Protest Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Did Black Lives Matter Protests Change Public Opinion?

Boehmke,

Avery,

Good

et al. 2023

American Politics Research

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“…Political attention to the issue of the police in general has been sharply partisan in the Black Lives Matter Era (e.g. Drakulich et al 2017Drakulich et al , 2020Drakulich and Denver 2022;Taylor 2016). People tend to adopt policy views consistent with their political identification (Lenz 2012).…”

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Who Believes that the Police Use Excessive Force? Centering Racism in Research on Perceptions of the Police

Drakulich

Robles

Rodriguez‐Whitney

et al. 2022

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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Objectives Police use of excessive—even fatal—force is a significant social issue, one at the symbolic heart of the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement. However, a substantial number of Americans—disproportionately White—tend to minimize the prevalence of this issue. We seek to explain differences in these views. Methods We look at whether experiences with the police, politics, and three measures of racial attitudes explain differences in views of the prevalence of police use of excessive force, and we specifically test for whether these factors help explain racial stratification in these views. Using data from three different recent national surveys collected by the American National Election Studies, we attempt to replicate our findings within this paper. Results Views of police use of force are highly stratified by race and politics and racial attitudes—in particular racial resentment—play an important role in explaining these differences. Conclusions If we hope to address this important issue, it matters that many people minimize its existence, and it matters why they minimize it. We argue that centering race in crime and justice research necessarily means centering racism.

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“…Although neither hashtag is formally associated with any political party, they have over time become entangled in the increasingly polarized landscape of American political identity [36], [37], and are associated with broader social movements known as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and All Lives Matter (ALM). A recent study showed that Democrats show increased support for the Black Lives Matter movement compared with Republicans [38], though it did not look specifically at hashtags. Less evidence exists about partisanship and All Lives Matter, though a recent qualitative analysis argued that the movement has been far more often invoked by Republican political candidates than by Democrats [39].…”

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Hashtags as Signals of Political Identity: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter

Powell¹,

Kim²,

Smaldino³

2022

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We investigate partisan perceptions of tweets marked with the #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter hashtags, as well as how the presence or absence of those hashtags changed the meaning and subsequent interpretation of those tweets in U.S. participants. We found a strong effect of partisanship on perceptions of the tweets, such that participants on the political left were more likely to view #AllLivesMatter tweets as racist and offensive, while participants on the political right were more likely to view #BlackLivesMatter tweets as racist and offensive. Moreover, we measured the influence of the hashtags themselves by removing them from tweets in which they originally appeared as well as by adding them to tweets selected to be politically neutral. We found that the hashtags seem to operate as context cues. In particular, adding #AllLivesMatter to neutral tweets was associated with much stronger perceptions of a tweet as racist and offensive by left partisans. We found that political identity explained the results far better than other factors like religiosity, race, or gender. Our results are also consistent with the hypothesis that perspectives on race are tied in with individual's social identity expression. The results have implications for our understanding of how social identity, and particularly political identity, shapes how individuals perceive and engage with the world.

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The Partisans and the Persuadables: Public Views of Black Lives Matter and the 2020 Protests

Cited by 31 publications

References 61 publications

Did Black Lives Matter Protests Change Public Opinion?

Did Black Lives Matter Protests Change Public Opinion?

Who Believes that the Police Use Excessive Force? Centering Racism in Research on Perceptions of the Police

Hashtags as Signals of Political Identity: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter

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