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Erschienen in: Political Behavior 2/2022

28.01.2022 | Original Paper

Beyond Performance: Racial Prejudice and Whites’ Mistrust of Government

verfasst von: Alexandra Filindra, Noah J. Kaplan, Beyza E. Buyuker

Erschienen in: Political Behavior | Ausgabe 2/2022

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Abstract

Scholars have argued that racial policy beliefs contributed to a decline in public trust among white-Americans, but this effect waned over time as racial policies left the agenda. We theorize that beliefs about racial policies may have been integrated into whites’ racial attitudes, resulting in a durable association between racial prejudice and public trust. Our analysis of eight ANES surveys (1992–2020) shows that racial prejudice, measured in terms of anti-Black stereotypes, informs white Americans’ beliefs about the trustworthiness of the federal government. LDV models strengthen our contention by showing that the relationship persists after an LDV is included and it is not reciprocal.

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1
Models with the Black thermometer as the key independent variable are included in Appendix Table A7. As expected, the thermometer does not perform as well as the stereotypes. Although all except one coefficients are in the expected direction, only three (1992, 2000, 2008) are statistically significant.
 
2
Factor analysis of the Black and white stereotype items in the ANES confirms that they do not fall on a single dimension. See Appendix Table A2.
 
3
The 2020 ANES included only one racial policy item: affirmative action. Following Hetherington (2005), we use individual policy controls, one for each policy, but our results as far as the significance of racial prejudice remain consistent if an additive policy index is used instead.
 
4
The 1988 ANES did not include measures of racial stereotypes, so we did not include it in the analysis. We use the time series data files in the analysis not the cumulative ANES file because the 2020 data are not in the cumulative file.
 
5
Results with both factors in the same model can be found in Appendix Table A3. These results are similar to what we present here.
 
6
Removal of the Presidential thermometer from the models leads to an increase in the size of the coefficients for the Black stereotype measure.
 
7
This remains the case in models in which the Black stereotypes are included in the same models as racial policy. See Appendix Table A3.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Beyond Performance: Racial Prejudice and Whites’ Mistrust of Government
verfasst von
Alexandra Filindra
Noah J. Kaplan
Beyza E. Buyuker
Publikationsdatum
28.01.2022
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Political Behavior / Ausgabe 2/2022
Print ISSN: 0190-9320
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-6687
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-022-09774-6

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