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On Hearing and Interpreting Political Messages: A Cautionary Tale of Citizen Cue-Taking
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Recent research documents the widespread use of heuristics, especially a reliance on elite cues among citizens. Scholars have celebrated this mode of decision making as rational and effective. Using experimental survey data collected from white and African-American respondents, we also identify what appears to be a strong influence of elite messages on mass political judgments, but only among our black respondents. More importantly, the data reveal some of the perils of cue-taking. Although rational, this heuristic may not always be effective.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kuklinski, J. H., & Hurley, N. L.
- Venue
- The Journal of Politics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1994-08
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 729-751
- ISSN
- 0022-3816 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2508
- OpenAlex
- W2059001022
- Cited by
- 337
- References
- 46
- FWCI
- 11.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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