期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
卷 56, 期 1, 页码 52-66出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00541.x
关键词
-
资金
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences [0924191] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
People categorize themselves and others, creating ingroup and outgroup distinctions. In American politics, parties constitute the in-and outgroups, and party leaders hold sway in articulating party positions. A party leader's endorsement of a policy can be persuasive, inducing co-partisans to take the same position. In contrast, a party leader's endorsement may polarize opinion, inducing out-party identifiers to take a contrary position. Using survey experiments from the 2008 presidential election, I examine whether in- and out-party candidate cues-John McCain and Barack Obama-affected partisan opinion. The results indicate that in-party leader cues do not persuade but that out-party leader cues polarize. This finding holds in an experiment featuring President Bush in which his endorsement did not persuade Republicans but it polarized Democrats. Lastly, I compare the effect of party leader cues to party label cues. The results suggest that politicians, not parties, function as polarizing cues.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据