Aufsatz(elektronisch)14. Juli 2020

Backfiring Frames: Abortion Politics, Religion, and Attitude Resistance

In: Politics and religion: official journal of the APSA Organized Section on Religion and Politics, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 403-430

Verfügbarkeit an Ihrem Standort wird überprüft

Abstract

AbstractFollowing recent insight into how citizens respond to attempts to correct political and salient misperceptions (Nyhan and Riefler, 2010, Political Behavior 32 (2): 303–330), we also expect that certain characteristics will predispose citizens to react strongly to messaging on highly contentious issues. Specifically, we expect that respondents will express an opinion that is even stronger in line with their predispositions when exposed to frames that challenge their position. Using an experiment on abortion opinion embedded in the 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), we find little indication that Pro-Abortion Access and Anti-Abortion Access frames move opinion on abortion in the aggregate, but there is evidence that specific characteristics correlate with a "backfire" effect identified by Nyhan and Riefler (2010, Political Behavior 32 (2): 303–330). In particular, gender, religiosity, and "Born-Again" Christian affiliation are all predictive of responding to either the Anti-Abortion Access or Pro-Abortion Access frame by moving the opposite direction as intended on the feeling thermometer.

Sprachen

Englisch

Verlag

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

ISSN: 1755-0491

DOI

10.1017/s1755048320000310

Problem melden

Wenn Sie Probleme mit dem Zugriff auf einen gefundenen Titel haben, können Sie sich über dieses Formular gern an uns wenden. Schreiben Sie uns hierüber auch gern, wenn Ihnen Fehler in der Titelanzeige aufgefallen sind.