Measuring Support for Welfare Policies: Implications for the Effects of Race and Deservingness Stereotypes

IF 3.2 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Journal of Experimental Political Science Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI:10.1017/xps.2023.31

K. Zhirkov, Kristin Lunz Trujillo, C. D. Myers

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Abstract

What are the relative contributions of stereotypes about the race and deservingness of welfare recipients to Americans’ opinions on welfare? A recent study employing a conjoint-experimental method finds that Americans’ stereotypes of welfare recipients as undeserving drive negative attitudes toward welfare, while stereotypes of welfare recipients as Black have little effect. However, this finding may be produced by the measure of welfare attitudes that includes questions implicating deservingness. We implement a conceptual replication of that study using different measures of welfare policy opinions that directly ask respondents about spending, both on welfare generally and on specific welfare programs. We show that when support for welfare is measured using the spending questions, stereotypes about race are significantly associated with opposition to welfare. These results have important implications for the debate on Americans’ opposition to welfare programs, as well as for the measurement of policy opinions in surveys.

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衡量对福利政策的支持：种族和贫困刻板印象的影响

关于福利领取者的种族和应得的刻板印象对美国人对福利的看法有什么相对的贡献？最近一项采用联合实验方法的研究发现，美国人对福利领取者的刻板印象是不值得的，这会导致人们对福利持负面态度，而对福利领取人的刻板印象则是黑人，这几乎没有影响。然而，这一发现可能是通过衡量福利态度产生的，其中包括涉及应得的问题。我们使用不同的福利政策意见衡量标准对该研究进行了概念复制，直接询问受访者在总体福利和特定福利项目上的支出。我们发现，当使用支出问题来衡量对福利的支持时，对种族的刻板印象与对福利的反对显著相关。这些结果对关于美国人反对福利计划的辩论以及调查中政策意见的衡量都有重要意义。

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Journal of Experimental Political Science Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

CiteScore

5.10

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Political Science (JEPS) features cutting-edge research that utilizes experimental methods or experimental reasoning based on naturally occurring data. We define experimental methods broadly: research featuring random (or quasi-random) assignment of subjects to different treatments in an effort to isolate causal relationships in the sphere of politics. JEPS embraces all of the different types of experiments carried out as part of political science research, including survey experiments, laboratory experiments, field experiments, lab experiments in the field, natural and neurological experiments. We invite authors to submit concise articles (around 4000 words or fewer) that immediately address the subject of the research. We do not require lengthy explanations regarding and justifications of the experimental method. Nor do we expect extensive literature reviews of pros and cons of the methodological approaches involved in the experiment unless the goal of the article is to explore these methodological issues. We expect readers to be familiar with experimental methods and therefore to not need pages of literature reviews to be convinced that experimental methods are a legitimate methodological approach. We will consider longer articles in rare, but appropriate cases, as in the following examples: when a new experimental method or approach is being introduced and discussed or when novel theoretical results are being evaluated through experimentation. Finally, we strongly encourage authors to submit manuscripts that showcase informative null findings or inconsistent results from well-designed, executed, and analyzed experiments.