When Do the Advantaged See the Disadvantages of Others? A Quasi-Experimental Study of National Service

Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung; Conn, Katharine M.

doi:10.1017/s0003055418000412

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“…Third, our paper speaks to the literature on the effect of personally experiencing shocks (e.g. crises and wars) on political and social attitudes (Lau and Sears 1978, Kinder and Kiewiet 1981, Erikson and Stoker 2001, Mo and Conn 2018. Our findings are consistent with studies showing that negative economic shocks increase support for government intervention in the economy and redistributive policies as well as people's beliefs about the relative importance of luck versus effort (Margalit 2013, Giuliano andSpilimbergo 2014).…”

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confidence: 88%

The COVID-19 Pandemic and US Presidential Elections

Brodeur¹,

Baccini²,

Weymouth³

2020

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What is the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we estimate the effect of COVID-19 cases and deaths on the change in county-level voting for Donald Trump between 2016 and 2020. To account for potential confounders, we include a large number of COVID-19-related controls as well as demographic and socioeconomic variables. Moreover, we instrument the numbers of cases and deaths with the share of workers employed in meat-processing factories to sharpen our identification strategy. We find that COVID-19 cases negatively affected Trump's vote share. The estimated effect appears strongest in urban counties, in swing states, and in states that Trump won in 2016. A simple counterfactual analysis suggests that Trump would likely have won re-election if COVID-19 cases had been 5 percent lower. Our paper contributes to the literature of retrospective voting and demonstrates that voters hold leaders accountable for their (mis-)handling of negative shocks.

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confidence: 88%

The COVID-19 Pandemic and US Presidential Elections

Brodeur¹,

Baccini²,

Weymouth³

2020

Preprint

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“…Where these interpretive effects combine with the aforementioned material effects, sorting pupils into privileged post‐school social networks, they can compound. Recent work by Mo and Conn (), looking not at pupils, but at teachers, argues that exposure to inequality among privileged young adults participating in the “Teach for America” (TFA) program shapes attitudes. Mo and Conn find that those who were exposed to prolonged class and racial diversity through their teaching experiences adopted economic and social attitudes closer to their more disadvantaged pupils than those who applied for TFA but did not participate.…”

Section: Education Policy and Attitudinal Feedbacksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Schools and Attitudes Toward Economic Equality

Gingrich¹

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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Do policies that shape equality in schools have effects on the type of society and polity that the citizens educated in them want? This paper examines this question by analyzing variation in the English schooling experiences using the British Cohort Study and British Panel Study. It shows that the social environment of schooling affects adults’ attitudes to fairness and Conservative vote choice, but that policies targeting these social environments have weak effects. The paper theorizes that actual policy feedback in education is often limited, because the effects of policies on school experiences are mediated by the behaviors of other actors on the ground.

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“…One study examined whether extended intergroup contact through Teach for America, a national service organization, helped increase perception of class-based inequality and racial discrimination. College graduates who participated in Teach for America perceived greater class-based inequality and racial discrimination compared to those who did not participate (i.e., college graudates who were just below the selection cut-off for the program; Mo & Conn, 2018). These effects persisted after six months to seven years post-completion of the Teach for America program.…”

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confidence: 99%

Hypocognition and the Invisibility of Social Privilege

Wu¹,

Dunning²

2020

Advances in Group Processes

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Purpose. Are members of socially dominant groups aware of the privileges they enjoy? We address this question by applying the notion of hypocognition to social privilege. Hypocognition is defined as lacking a rich cognitive or linguistic representation (i.e., a schema) of a concept in question. By social privilege, we refer to advantages that members of dominant social groups enjoy because of their group membership. We argue that such group members are hypocognitive of the privilege they enjoy. They have little cognitive representation of it. As a consequence, their social advantage is invisible to them. Approach. We provide a narrative review of recent empirical work demonstrating and explaining this lack of expertise and knowledge in socially dominant groups (e.g., Whites, men) about discrimination and disadvantage encountered by other groups (e.g., Blacks, Asian Americans, women), relative what members of those other groups know. Findings. This lack of expertise or knowledge is revealed by classic cognitive psychological measures. Relative to members of other groups, social dominant group members generate fewer examples of discrimination that other groups confront, remember fewer instances after being presented a list of them, and are slower to respond when classifying whether these examples are discriminatory. Social Implications. These classic measures of cognitive expertise about social privilege predict social attitude differences between social groups, specifically whether people perceive the existence of social privilege as well as believe discrimination still exists in contemporary society. Hypocognition of social privilege also carries implications for informal interventions (e.g., acting "colorblind") that are popularly discussed.

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When Do the Advantaged See the Disadvantages of Others? A Quasi-Experimental Study of National Service

Cited by 41 publications

References 72 publications

The COVID-19 Pandemic and US Presidential Elections

The COVID-19 Pandemic and US Presidential Elections

Schools and Attitudes Toward Economic Equality

Hypocognition and the Invisibility of Social Privilege

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