Explaining Processes of Institutional Opinion Leadership

dc.contributor.authorBartels, Brandon L
dc.contributor.authorMutz, Diana C
dc.date2023-05-17T05:24:05.000
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-22T11:57:00Z
dc.date.available2023-05-22T11:57:00Z
dc.date.issued2009-01-01
dc.date.submitted2010-09-29T08:14:13-07:00
dc.description.abstractWhen and how can institutions lead public opinion? Scholarly controversy exists over whether even a highly esteemed institution such as the Supreme Court can move mass opinion. In this study we use an experimental design embedded within a representative national survey to examine these questions in a context involving multiple institutions and multiple issues. Our findings suggest that the Court’s ability to move opinion is potent and based on multiple processes of persuasive influence. Congress’s ability to move opinion, while conditional, is surprisingly more potent than previously understood. Moreover, opinion change in response to institutional endorsements is mediated by substantive political thought to a greater extent than heuristic explanations have suggested.
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/1841
dc.legacy.articleid1207
dc.legacy.fieldstrue
dc.legacy.fields10.1017/S0022381608090166
dc.legacy.fulltexturlhttps://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1207&context=asc_papers&unstamped=1
dc.rights© 2009 Southern Political Science Association
dc.source.beginpage249
dc.source.endpage261
dc.source.issue201
dc.source.issue1
dc.source.journalDepartmental Papers (ASC)
dc.source.journaltitleThe Journal of Politics
dc.source.peerreviewedtrue
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.source.volume74
dc.subject.otherCommunication
dc.subject.otherSocial and Behavioral Sciences
dc.titleExplaining Processes of Institutional Opinion Leadership
dc.typeArticle
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