POL SCI 137A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Racial Profiling
7 Feb 2017
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Nuts and bolts presentations - day 1 (alan) question wording for policy opinions > government. Vary the framing of policy, also vary whether there is a verb in front. Results: large shifts in support/ opposition for policy depending on framing. Results: using a verb increases people"s want to spend more on the issue (katori) framing of willy horton cases > racial attitudes. More support for punitive policies in treatment, but mostly driven by conservatives. For both conditions, liberals did not support punitive conditions. In terms of conservatives, those in the treatment demonstrates a huge difference in attitude toward punitive measures (support) compared to the liberals (genesa) candidate characteristics > support. Small differences in ratings in terms of sex, religion, age and education, more sizeable differences in terms of jobs and residency information. Treatments compared to the baseline surveys collected beforehand. Unrealistic x, limited representation of x, fake/ artificial x.
