Is President Obama's Race Chronically Accessible? Racial Priming in the 2012 Presidential Election
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 628-650
ISSN: 1091-7675
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In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 628-650
ISSN: 1091-7675
In: Political communication, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 628-650
ISSN: 1058-4609
In: International journal of public opinion research, S. edw027
ISSN: 1471-6909
In: American politics research, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 336-372
ISSN: 1552-3373
Multiple identity and identification terms are used in social science research on sexuality, including clinical terms such as "homosexual" and "heterosexual" and more colloquial terms such as "gay" and "straight." In this article, we show that far from being synonyms, these terms have consequences for attitudes about gay and lesbian rights. We begin by providing a historical overview of the terms "homosexual" and "gay and lesbian," showing the different connotations that social groups have come to associate with these terms. We then analyze a split-ballot experiment embedded in the 2012 American National Election Study (ANES) and show that group identity and authoritarianism shape attitudes toward "homosexual" rights differently than "gay and lesbian" rights.
In: Analyses of social issues and public policy, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 78-104
ISSN: 1530-2415
In an analysis of the 2012 presidential election, we sought to optimize two key desiderata in capturing campaign effects: establishing causality and measuring dynamic (i.e., intraindividual) change over time. We first report the results of three survey‐experiments embedded within a three‐wave survey panel design. Each experiment was focused on a substantive area of electoral concern. Our results suggest, among other findings, that retrospective evaluations exerted a stronger influence on vote choice in the referendum (vs. the choice) frame; that among White respondents, racial animosity strongly predicted economic evaluations for knowledgeable Republicans who were led to believe that positive economic developments were the result of actions taken by the Obama administration; and that information‐seeking bias is a contingent phenomenon, one depending jointly on the opportunity and motivation to selectively tune in to congenial information. Lastly, we demonstrate how the panel design also allowed us to (1) examine the reliability and stability of a variety of election‐related implicit attitudes, and to assess their impact on candidate evaluation; and (2) determine the causal impact of perceptions of candidates' traits and respondents' policy preferences on electoral preferences, and vice versa, an area of research long plagued by concerns about endogeneity.