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Medenica, Vladimir Enrique.

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How the few persuade the many: Overcoming marginality in the fight for public opinion.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	How the few persuade the many: Overcoming marginality in the fight for public opinion./
作者:	Medenica, Vladimir Enrique.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
面頁冊數:	137 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-02A.
標題:	Political science. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10278728
ISBN:	9780355040425

How the few persuade the many: Overcoming marginality in the fight for public opinion.
Medenica, Vladimir Enrique.

How the few persuade the many: Overcoming marginality in the fight for public opinion. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 137 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2017.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation seeks to expand scholarly understanding of one overarching question: How do minority groups effectively appeal to majority opinion and gain support for their issue positions? I attempt to answer this through a mixed-methods examination of the United Farm Worker's (UFW) labor movement, the fight against restrictive voter identification laws, and changing attitudes on same-sex marriage. In doing so, I offer insight into why American society has witnessed substantial progress on issues fraught with conflict and controversy, often in a historical eye blink and, almost by definition, at some non-zero cost to the majority group. The empirical work of this project begins in Chapter 2 with a content analysis of the UFW's campaign to boycott agricultural products. By analyzing and comparing English- and Spanish-language publications, I find that the UFW strategically altered their message framing when appealing to distinct target audiences, highlighting their connection to the American labor force in English-language media while emphasizing their quest for social justice in Spanish-language appeals. In Chapter 3, I evaluate variation in messaging impact based on the identity of the messenger. Using voter identification laws as the policy area of interest, I analyze data from an original online survey experiment testing whether white voters express variation in support for voter identification laws when exposed to an advocacy group associated with varying racial groups. Findings point to the importance of advocacy in shaping opinion for all voters in the sample and indicate heterogeneous treatment effects by partisanship on both issue support and group perceptions, with Republicans less likely to shift in opinion than Democrats and Independents. In Chapter 4, I decompose the aggregate trend in attitudes on same-sex marriage from 1988-2014 into estimates of cohort replacement and intra-cohort conversion. While 27% of attitude change is attributable to cohort replacement, over 70% is due to individual-level opinion change. I then examine other attitudinal measures and offer hypotheses for why individuals change their minds. Finally, Chapter 5 offers a brief discussion of how the three chapters and their key takeaways relate to one another and the discipline of political science before offering potential directions for future work.

ISBN: 9780355040425Subjects--Topical Terms:

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