Russian Troll Vaccine Misinformation Dissemination on Twitter: The Role of Political Partisanship

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Kun Yan ◽  
Juliana L. Barbati ◽  
Kaylin L. Duncan ◽  
Echo L. Warner ◽  
Stephen A. Rains
Keyword(s):  
Political Partisanship

scholarly journals Beyond “fake news”: The role of analytic thinking in the detection of inaccuracy and partisan bias in news headlines

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M Ross ◽  
David Gertler Rand ◽  
Gordon Pennycook
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Total N ◽  
Partisan Bias ◽  
News Content ◽  
Political Bias ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
News Headlines

Why is misleading partisan content believed and shared? An influential account posits that political partisanship pervasively biases reasoning, such that engaging in analytic thinking exacerbates motivated reasoning and, in turn, the acceptance of hyperpartisan content. Alternatively, it may be that susceptibility to hyperpartisan misinformation is explained by a lack of reasoning. Across two studies using different subject pools (total N = 1977), we had participants assess true, false, and hyperpartisan headlines taken from social media. We found no evidence that analytic thinking was associated with increased polarization for either judgments about the accuracy of the headlines or willingness to share the news content on social media. Instead, analytic thinking was broadly associated with an increased capacity to discern between true headlines and either false or hyperpartisan headlines. These results suggest that reasoning typically helps people differentiate between low and high quality news content, rather than facilitating political bias.

Science as a Political Battlefield

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-53
Author(s):  
Heini I. Skorini
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Factual Knowledge ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Public Ignorance ◽  
Group Thinking ◽  
Political Decision Making

This chapter will examine the role of science and factual knowledge in public policymaking in the digital era. The chapter will address why certain scientific issues trigger political controversy and cultural polarization and what psychological mechanisms fuel political tribalism, ideological group thinking, and the rejection of facts and science in collective political decision-making. Furthermore, the digital revolution and its capability of fueling disinformation and false narratives will also be analyzed. According to the main argument, the rejection of science on particular issues is not due to public ignorance, the lack of education, or scientific illiteracy. The emergence of “post-truth politics” and the erosion of science in collective decision-making is largely caused by rising political partisanship, cultural group thinking, motivated reasoning, and identity-protective cognition.

scholarly journals Weaponizing the EPA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Climate Agreements ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Political Partisanship

In its broadest sense, presidential control encompasses all the actions, in both word and deed, whereby presidents "go it alone" to adopt policies in the absence of congressional will to do so, and sometimes directly contrary to it. This dissertation studies how President Obama used rhetorical and administrative tools of presidential control to address the "wicked problem" of climate change. The "administrative presidency" and the "rhetorical presidency" are familiar political science terms, but in the case of climate change policy, they appear to be moving policymaking in a new and perhaps profound direction, which this study refers to as "post-deliberative policymaking." Applying these two areas of scholarship together to the wicked problem of climate change creates a helpful window through which to study how President Obama utilized administrative and rhetorical strategies and tools during his presidency. In particular, the study examines how he rhetorically constructed and rationalized his use of the Environmental Protection Agency to implement federal climate change regulations via the federal Clean Power Plan. Among the insights revealed by this analysis are how President Obama, in an age of acute political partisanship and polarization, positioned the role of the bureaucracy, how he invoked executive power, and what his actions reveal and may portend about executive views of democratic institutions and norms. This dissertation analyzes President Obama's rhetoric through a study of his speeches from 2009 through 2015 that explicitly or implicitly reference climate change, greenhouse gases, and the Clean Power Plan, but also related topics, such as energy policy and climate agreements.

Gender and Racial Gaps in Support for Policing and Correctional Reforms: Are the Gaps a Consequence of Political Partisanship?

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872110647
Author(s):  
Michael A. Hansen ◽  
John C. Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Congressional Election ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Multivariate Models ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Criminal Justice Reform ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Racial Gaps

Divisive criminal justice issues are typically framed through gender and racial lenses, with little empirical work considering the increasing role of political partisanship. Using the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study ( N = 55,000), we estimate multivariate models of support for four policing and correctional reforms. The models initially point to gender gaps and racial gaps. However, as with many public policy issues, support for criminal justice reforms are largely a product of political partisanship—the gender and racial gaps are largely a consequence of gender and racial gaps in partisanship and appear to be driven by white Republican men. As legislative bodies continue to be overrepresented with individuals with the same demographic profile, criminal justice reform prospects are limited.

SOMETHING IN COMMON?

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Wallsten ◽  
Tatishe M. Nteta
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Persuasive Messages ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Attitudinal Effects ◽  
Racial Lines ◽  
The Impact

AbstractDoes elite rhetoric influence how Latinos view their relationship with African Americans? In this paper, we provide a systematic empirical assessment of the impact that elite messages have on Latino perceptions of economic and political commonality by drawing on two unique data sources: the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS) and a survey experiment embedded in the September 2010 Latino Decisions Tracking Poll (LDS). Our analysis reveals that the attitudinal effects of exposure to elite messages are strongly conditioned by one's political partisanship. To be more precise, we find that although exposure to elite messages leads Democrats to express more in common politically with African Americans, it fails to exert any significant influence among other groups and on different dependent variables. Specifically, the evidence presented here shows that reception of persuasive messages from like-minded political leaders contributes nothing to our understanding of how attitudes on economic commonality are formed and very little to our understanding of the source from which perceptions of political commonality arise among Republicans and Independents. In addition to making significant contributions to the literatures on commonality, multiracial coalitions and public opinion, these findings also make a strong case for further evaluating the role of political leadership in forging bonds of cooperation across racial lines.

scholarly journals Hoax in Modern Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratiwi Utami
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
Practice Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Us Presidential Election

The propagation of hoaxes on social media has contributed to political tension in many countries. The 2016 US presidential election provides evidence of how fake news can generate more social media engagement than real news. In multicultural Indonesia, the history of anti-communist, anti-Christian, and anti-Chinese pogroms increases the level of sensitivity and sentiment, especially when dealing with racial issues. This paper explores the role of hoaxes in Indonesia’s contemporary politics. It investigates the characteristics of hoax information circulated on social media during the 2017 Jakarta election using a memetic practice approach. This study perceives hoaxes as having acted like memes in terms of the ways in which they dismantle existing source material to tap into ideas or sentiments people connect with. Hoaxes as memes alter original items into new forms of artifacts, with new messages that resonate with existing beliefs in society. Consequently, hoaxes can create a culture based on a shared belief among the community and, in the era of increasing polarization, a hoax has the potential to be a means of political partisanship. However, with the tendency to overpower the truth and lead people away from believing facts, hoaxes can be a threat to participatory democracy.

scholarly journals Political partisanship influences behavioral responses to governors’ recommendations for COVID-19 prevention in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (39) ◽  
pp. 24144-24153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Grossman ◽  
Soojong Kim ◽  
Jonah M. Rexer ◽  
Harsha Thirumurthy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Affiliation ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Using Data ◽  
At Home

Voluntary physical distancing is essential for preventing the spread of COVID-19. We assessed the role of political partisanship in individuals’ compliance with physical distancing recommendations of political leaders using data on mobility from a sample of mobile phones in 3,100 counties in the United States during March 2020, county-level partisan preferences, information about the political affiliation of state governors, and the timing of their communications about COVID-19 prevention. Regression analyses examined how political preferences influenced the association between governors’ COVID-19 communications and residents’ mobility patterns. Governors’ recommendations for residents to stay at home preceded stay-at-home orders and led to a significant reduction in mobility that was comparable to the effect of the orders themselves. Effects were larger in Democratic- than in Republican-leaning counties, a pattern more pronounced under Republican governors. Democratic-leaning counties also responded more strongly to recommendations from Republican than from Democratic governors. Political partisanship influences citizens’ decisions to voluntarily engage in physical distancing in response to communications by their governor.

scholarly journals Role of Irrigation in Development: The Rajasthan Experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 2430-2435
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Irrigation Projects ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
Irrigation Potential ◽  
Timely Completion ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
Potential Reservoir

Rajasthan is the largest state of India in terms of area and it covers about 10.4% of the total area of India but only 1.04% of the water resources, hence there is lack of water resources for 70% of the state's agricultural economy. The uncertainty of the monsoon creates problems of employment and irregularity along with hindering the development of agriculture. Such problems have revealed an important requirement of irrigation in the state. The paper will explain about the main sources, needs and importance of irrigation in Rajasthan. The study also focuses on the area irrigated by irrigation resources in Rajasthan. Main irrigation projects of Rajasthan like interstate multipurpose river valley projects of Rajasthan, major irrigation projects of Rajasthan, medium projects of Rajasthan, minor irrigation projects of Rajasthan are explained properly with facts and figures in the study. The paper also highlights the development of irrigation during plans and its progress in gross irrigated area in Rajasthan. Allocation of expenses of public sector irrigation and flood control under the five-year plans in Rajasthan were part of the study. In the last paper ended explaining about the barriers to irrigation development, suggestions and conclusion. Financial difficulty, rising cost of irrigation projects, problem of full utilization of irrigation potential, reservoir problems, inter-State disputes, problem of environmental protection, corruption, red tape and political partisanship, unnecessary delay are the various problems faced by the farmers. To overcome these problem suggestions given like government should focus on mobilizing more resources, seek foreign cooperation, control over corruption, careful use of water and proper drainage system, disputes should be settled quickly and without political pressure, timely completion of projects, etc.

scholarly journals The role of political partisanship during economic crises

Public Choice ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 158 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 143-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Galasso
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crises ◽  
Political Partisanship
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