Abrajano / Lajevardi '(Mis)Informed: What Americans Know About Social Groups and Why it Matters for Politics

What Americans Know About Social Groups and Why it Matters for Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-89986-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Elements in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

This Element examines just how much the public knows about some of America's most stigmatized social groups, who comprise 40.3% of the population, and evaluates whether misinformation matters for policy attitudes and candidate support. It designs and fields an original survey containing large national samples of Black, Latino, Asian, Muslim, and White Americans, and include measures of misinformation designed to assess the amount of factual information that individuals possess about these groups. The authors find that Republicans, White Americans, the most racially resentful, and consumers of conservative news outlets are the most likely to be misinformed about socially marginalized groups. The authors' analysis also indicates that misinformation predicts hostile policy support on racialized issues; it is also positively correlated with support for Trump. The authors then conducted three studies aimed at correcting misinformation. Their research speaks to the prospects of a well-functioning democracy, and its ramifications on the most marginalized.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abrajano, Marisa

Lajevardi, Nazita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Politics of Racialized Misinformation; 2. What Does the Public Know about Socially Marginalized Groups?; 3. The Political Consequences of Racialized Misinformation; 4. Implications of a (Mis)informed Public; Bibliography.