From Extreme to Mainstream: The Erosion of Social Norms

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Egorov, Georgy; Fiorin, Stefano

doi:10.1257/aer.20171175

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“…To this point, Leonardo Bursztyn, Georgy Egorov, and Stefano Fiorin performed a series of experiments that suggested that Donald Trump’s popularity made those who were already xenophobic more comfortable expressing their xenophobic views in public. They concluded “that social norms regarding the expression of such views in the U.S. might have been causally changed by Trump’s rise in popularity and eventual electoral victory” (Bursztyn, Egorov, and Fiorin 2020, 21).…”

Section: Analysis Of Public Opinionmentioning

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More than a Wall: The Rise and Fall of US Asylum and Refugee Policy

Wasem

2020

Journal on Migration and Human Security

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Executive Summary This article uses a multidisciplinary approach — analyzing historical sources, refugee and asylum admissions data, legislative provisions, and public opinion data — to track the rise and fall of the US asylum and refugee policy. It shows that there has always been a political struggle between people who advocate for a generous refugee and asylum system and those who oppose it. Today, the flexible system of protecting refugees and asylees, established in 1980, is giving way to policies that weaponize them. It offers a historical analysis of US refugee and asylum policies, as well as xenophobic and nativist attitudes toward refugees. It places Trump administration refugee policies in three categories: those that abandon longstanding US legal principles and policies, most notably non-refoulement and due process; those that block the entry of refugees and asylees; and those that criminalize foreign nationals who attempt to seek asylum in the United States. The article concludes with an analysis of public opinion research to square the growing public support for refugees and asylees shown in polling data with the subgroup popularity of Donald Trump’s harsh xenophobic rhetoric and policies. These seemingly contradictory trends are consistent with research on right-wing populism. It argues that the restoration of generous humanitarian policies requires robust civic engagement and steadfast legislative efforts.

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Section: Analysis Of Public Opinionmentioning

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More than a Wall: The Rise and Fall of US Asylum and Refugee Policy

Wasem

2020

Journal on Migration and Human Security

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“…Ads can alter cognitive or processing demands of acquiring information by e.g. making viewers aware of new candidates and policies (an aspect tested in DellaVigna and Kaplan, 2007), increasing the perceived salience of certain political issues (Le Pennec and Pons, 2019), or making viewers aware of the intensity of political competition or of the preferences of their peers (Bursztyn et al, 2020).…”

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How Campaign Ads Stimulate Political Interest

Canen

Martin²

2023

The Review of Economics and Statistics

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We empirically investigate key dynamic features of advertising competition in elections using a new dataset of very high-frequency, household-level television viewing matched to campaign advertising exposures. First, we show that exposure to campaign advertising increases households’ consumption of news programming by 3-4 minutes on average over the next 24 hours. The identification compares households viewing a program when a political ad appeared to viewers in the same market who barely missed it. Second, we show that these effects decline over the campaign. Together, these dynamic forces help rationalize why candidates deploy much of their advertising budgets well before election day.

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“…They also shape social values. If leader values are not desirable in the long run (e.g., xenophobia, science denial), as is the case with populist leaders (Bursztyn et al, 2020), then we will be in for a very difficult ride.…”

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Leadership to defeat COVID-19

Antonakis

2021

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Defeating COVID-19 will not happen only via efforts of scientists working on vaccines or new treatments and interventions. Key to winning this battle is to convince citizens to take the needed precautions and to follow scientific advice to stop the spread of the virus and to protect those who are vulnerable to it. Thus, leaders, especially political leaders, play a critical role in coordinating the efforts of individuals who often have private interests to act as they wish, but who expect to benefit from the efforts of others who contribute to the public good. To deal with this unprecedented challenge, I discuss the importance of leadership, particularly charismatic leadership, which is well suited to solving problems in situations of ambiguity and crisis. I also exhort researchers to pay more attention to studying leadership using robust and causally identified designs that can inform policy.

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From Extreme to Mainstream: The Erosion of Social Norms

Cited by 245 publications

References 37 publications

More than a Wall: The Rise and Fall of US Asylum and Refugee Policy

More than a Wall: The Rise and Fall of US Asylum and Refugee Policy

How Campaign Ads Stimulate Political Interest

Leadership to defeat COVID-19

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