TY - JOUR
T1 - Knowledge distortion in direct democracy
T2 - A longitudinal study of biased empirical beliefs on statewide ballot measures
AU - Gastil, John
AU - Reedy, Justin
AU - Wells, Chris
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences’ Political Science Program (Award number 0961774). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - This study extends a model of political knowledge distortion by tracing the influence of cultural orientations, information exposure, and prior beliefs on changes in knowledge distortion and issue attitudes during the 2010 Oregon general election. Results show strong associations between voters’ cultural orientations and their knowledge distortion in the first survey wave and over time. As hypothesized, orientations had stronger effects on the issues that showed greater cultural divergence. Self-reported exposure to issue-relevant information during the campaign, however, had no direct or interactive effects on voters’ changing factual beliefs. Changes in issue attitudes were associated with voters’ changing factual beliefs and their orientations, with the level of cultural divergence having no consistent influence on the strength of those associations.
AB - This study extends a model of political knowledge distortion by tracing the influence of cultural orientations, information exposure, and prior beliefs on changes in knowledge distortion and issue attitudes during the 2010 Oregon general election. Results show strong associations between voters’ cultural orientations and their knowledge distortion in the first survey wave and over time. As hypothesized, orientations had stronger effects on the issues that showed greater cultural divergence. Self-reported exposure to issue-relevant information during the campaign, however, had no direct or interactive effects on voters’ changing factual beliefs. Changes in issue attitudes were associated with voters’ changing factual beliefs and their orientations, with the level of cultural divergence having no consistent influence on the strength of those associations.
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U2 - 10.1093/ijpor/edx012
DO - 10.1093/ijpor/edx012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061969439
SN - 0954-2892
VL - 30
SP - 540
EP - 560
JO - International Journal of Public Opinion Research
JF - International Journal of Public Opinion Research
IS - 4
ER -