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Is it the Message or the Messenger? Examining Movement in Immigration Beliefs / Hassan Afrouzi, Carolina Arteaga, Emily K. Weisburst.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Afrouzi, Hassan.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31385.
- NBER working paper series no. w31385
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.
- Summary:
- How do political leaders affect constituents' beliefs? Is it rhetoric, leader identity, or the interaction of the two that matters? Using a large-scale experiment we decompose the relative importance of partisan messages vs leader sources, in the context of beliefs about immigration. Participants listen to anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant speeches from both Presidents Obama and Trump. These treatments are benchmarked to versions of the speeches recorded by an actor to control for message content, and to non-ideological presidential speeches to control for leader priming. Our findings show that political leader sources influence beliefs beyond the content of their messages in a special case: when leaders deliver unanticipated messages to individuals in their own party. This evidence supports the hypothesis that individuals will "follow their leader" to new policy positions.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2023.
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