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Issue Frames and Group-Centrism in American Public Opinion
Abstract
Public opinion on government policy is group-centric: that is, strongly influenced by the attitudes citizens possess toward the social groups perceived as the beneficiaries of the policy. Though common-place, this mode of political thinking is not inevitable. In four experiments, we show that group-centrism hinges in part on how issues are framed in public debate. When issues are framed in ways that draw attention to a policy's beneficiaries, group-centrism increases; when issues are framed in ways that deflect attention away from the beneficiaries, group-centrism declines. We conclude by drawing out the implications of these findings for the concept of frame, considered both as a rhetorical weapon in elites' hands and as a cognitive structure in citizens' minds.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nelson, T. E., & Kinder, D. R.
- Venue
- The Journal of Politics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1996-11
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1055-1078
- ISSN
- 0022-3816 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2508
- OpenAlex
- W2139519757
- Cited by
- 809
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 42.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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