The Positive Case for Negative Campaigning. By Kyle Mattes and David P. Redlawsk. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 256p. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 195-198
ISSN: 1541-0986
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In: Perspectives on politics, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 195-198
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 194-195
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Political communication, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 480
ISSN: 1058-4609
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 327-328
ISSN: 1091-7675
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 325-325
ISSN: 1091-7675
In: Princeton studies in political behavior 27
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. Beyond the Conventional Wisdom -- 2. At Face Value: What Americans Say They Like and Dislike about Trade -- 3. Partisan Trends in Mass Opinion on Trade -- 4. How Much Is One American Worth? -- 5. Trade with Whom? -- 6. How Racial Attitudes Affect Support for International Trade -- 7. Is This Inevitable? A Cross-National Comparison -- 8. Media Coverage of Trade: The Vividness of Losers -- 9. Attributing Responsibility for Job Loss -- 10. The Impact of Trade on Elections -- 11. The Role of Trade in the 2016 Election -- 12. Shaping Opinions on Trade: What Works and with What Consequences -- 13. The Future of Mass Support for International Trade -- Appendix: Descriptions of Sources of Data -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Americans are disgusted with watching politicians screaming and yelling at one another on television. But does all the noise really make a difference? Drawing on numerous studies, Diana Mutz provides the first comprehensive look at the consequences of in-your-face politics. Her book contradicts the conventional wisdom by documenting both the benefits and the drawbacks of in-your-face media."In-your-face" politics refers to both the level of incivility and the up-close and personal way that we experience political conflict on television. Just as actual physical closeness intensifies people's emotional reactions to others, the appearance of closeness on a video screen has similar effects. We tend to keep our distance from those with whom we disagree. Modern media, however, puts those we dislike in our faces in a way that intensifies our negative reactions. Mutz finds that incivility is particularly detrimental to facilitating respect for oppositional political viewpoints and to citizens' levels of trust in politicians and the political process. On the positive side, incivility and close-up camera perspectives contribute to making politics more physiologically arousing and entertaining to viewers. This encourages more attention to political programs, stimulates recall of the content, and encourages people to relay content to others.In the end, In-Your-Face Politics demonstrates why political incivility is not easily dismissed as a disservice to democracy-it may even be a necessity in an age with so much competition for citizens' attention
Americans are disgusted with watching politicians screaming and yelling at one another on television. But does all the noise really make a difference? Drawing on numerous studies, Diana Mutz provides the first comprehensive look at the consequences of in-your-face politics. Her book contradicts the conventional wisdom by documenting both the benefits and the drawbacks of in-your-face media. "In-your-face" politics refers to both the level of incivility and the up-close and personal way that we experience political conflict on television. Just as actual physical closeness intensifies people's emotional reactions to others, the appearance of closeness on a video screen has similar effects
"Population-based survey experiments have become an invaluable tool for social scientists struggling to generalize laboratory-based results, and for survey researchers besieged by uncertainties about causality. Thanks to technological advances in recent years, experiments can now be administered to random samples of the population to which a theory applies. Yet until now, there was no self-contained resource for social scientists seeking a concise and accessible overview of this methodology, its strengths and weaknesses, and the unique challenges it poses for implementation and analysis. Drawing on examples from across the social sciences, this book covers everything you need to know to plan, implement, and analyze the results of population-based survey experiments. But it is more than just a 'how to' manual. This lively book challenges conventional wisdom about internal and external validity, showing why strong causal claims need not come at the expense of external validity, and how it is now possible to execute experiments remotely using large-scale population samples. Designed for social scientists across the disciplines, Population-Based Survey Experiments provides the first complete introduction to this methodology"--Provided by publisher4207 Population-based survey experiments have become an invaluable tool for social scientists struggling to generalize laboratory-based results, and for survey researchers besieged by uncertainties about causality. Thanks to technological advances in recent years, experiments can now be administered to random samples of the population to which a theory applies. Yet until now, there was no self-contained resource for social scientists seeking a concise and accessible overview of this methodology, its strengths and weaknesses, and the unique challenges it poses for implementation and analysis. Dra
In: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
People's perceptions of the attitudes and experiences of mass collectives are an increasingly important force in contemporary political life. In Impersonal Influence, Mutz goes beyond simply providing examples of how impersonal influence matters in the political process to provide a micro-level understanding of why information about distant and impersonal others often influence people's political attitudes and behaviors. Impersonal Influence is worthy of attention both from the standpoint of its impact on contemporary politics, and because of its potential to expand the boundaries of our understanding of social influence processes, and media's relation to them. The book's conclusions do not exonerate media from the effects of inaccurate portrayals of collective experience or opinion, but they suggest that the ways in which people are influenced by these perceptions are in themselves, not so much deleterious to democracy as absolutely necessary to promoting accountability in a large scale society
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 708, Heft 1, S. 184-205
ISSN: 1552-3349
Using a measure designed to capture intolerance on both sides of the political spectrum, I find that opinions favoring the abridgement of free speech rights are overwhelmingly targeted at right-leaning groups, and racist groups in particular. Consistent with recent studies, Democrats are found to be less tolerant than Republicans of speech they dislike. However, contrary to existing findings, the same patterns of intolerance are present for both racist and nonracist target groups. Treating racist groups as an exception to the principle of free expression may have resulted in a spillover to intolerance of other disliked groups.
In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 26, Heft 4, S. 585-592
ISSN: 1743-8772
Few Americans change their choice of presidential candidate to a different political party from election to election. This study evaluates whether and in what direction the Black Lives Matter movement affected the small percentage of voters whose presidential votes changed from 2016 to 2020. Six waves of nationally representative probability surveys are used to establish that significant increases in the extent to which Americans perceived discrimination against Blacks and to which people favored more government efforts to address racial inequality both occurred in 2020. Using panel data, results suggest that increases in perceptions of racial inequality significantly increased the probability of vote switching toward the Democratic candidate. Attention to racial injustice also primed voters to rely more heavily on this issue when evaluating candidates.
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