Dangerous Frames

by Winter, Nicholas J. G.

• ISBN13: 9780226902371
• ISBN10: 0226902374
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

In addition to their obvious roles in American politics, race and gender also work in hidden ways to profoundly influence the way we thinkand voteabout a vast array of issues that don't seem related to either category. As Nicholas Winter reveals inDangerous Frames, politicians and leaders often frame these seemingly unrelated issues in ways that prime audiences to respond not to the policy at hand but instead to the way its presentation resonates with their deeply held beliefs about race and gender. Winter shows, for example, how official rhetoric about welfare and Social Security has tapped into white Americans' racial biases to shape their opinions on both issues for the past two decades. Similarly, the way politicians presented health care reform in the 1990s divided Americans along the lines of their attitudes toward gender. Combining cognitive and political psychology with innovative empirical research,Dangerous Framesultimatelyilluminates the emotional underpinnings of American politics.

Author Biography

Nicholas Winter is assistant professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vi
List of Tables	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Race, Gender, and Political Cognition	p. 1
Political Rhetoric Meets Political Psychology: The Process of Group Implication	p. 17
American Race and Gender Schemas	p. 33
Group Implication in the Laboratory	p. 47
Racialization of Welfare and Social Security	p. 83
Gendering of Health Care Reform	p. 119
Race and Gender Frames in American Politics	p. 141
Text of Experimental Articles	p. 175
Experimental Question Wording	p. 193
Measurement of Race and Gender Predispositions	p. 201
Race Is Race; Gender Is Gender	p. 205
Coefficients for Additional Opinion Models	p. 209
Notes	p. 211
References	p. 233
Index	p. 261
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