From Wedge Issue to Partisan Divide: The Development of Immigration Policy Opinion after 2016

Gimpel, James G.

doi:10.1515/for-2019-0024

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“…The 2016 U.S. presidential election was stressful for many individuals (American Psychological Association [APA], 2017), but particularly for immigrants given the centrality of immigration policy during the election campaign (Agbafe, 2016;Gimpel, 2017). A majority (56%) of Latinos, the largest immigrant population in the United States (American Community Survey, 2017), reported that the outcome of the election was a "very" or "somewhat" significant source of stress (APA, 2017).…”

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Latino early adolescents’ psychological and physiological responses during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Zeiders

Nair

Hoyt

et al. 2020

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Objectives: Research has documented increased psychological distress among adults during the 2016 U.S. presidential election; however, little is known about how major political events affect adolescents. Despite not actively participating in the election process (e.g., voting), adolescents generally, and Latino youth specifically, may experience a unique stress response during elections, particularly when perceived policy changes center on issues related to their own families’ stability and well-being. Methods: We examined 42 Latino early adolescents (Mage = 12.50 years, SD = .88; 58% male; 94% immigrant background) living in Arizona and explored their psychological and physiological responses during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Adolescents self-reported their mood and behaviors for 5 consecutive days across election week (November 6–10, 2016): 2 days before the election, election day, and 2 days after the election. They also completed a saliva sampling protocol at waking and bedtime each day, to capture diurnal cortisol concentrations. Results: Multilevel growth models were utilized to examine intraindividual changes in positive affect, negative affect, and diurnal cortisol patterns across election week. Only 2 of the participants reported supporting the winning candidate. Changes in adolescents’ stress hormone concentrations were evident; increases in evening cortisol levels and flatter diurnal cortisol slopes emerged across election week. Negative affect, positive affect, and morning cortisol concentrations did not change. Conclusions: This study provides preliminary evidence that macrolevel factors, such as the recent presidential election, may relate to adolescents’ daily stress physiology. Further research is needed to better understand adolescents’ responses to sociopolitical change.

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Latino early adolescents’ psychological and physiological responses during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Hoyt

et al. 2020

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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“…One argument with respect to our findings of responsiveness to the partisanship of the president is that it is driven mostly by responsiveness to Trump, who utilized immigration as a campaign issue to a greater extent than previous presidents (Gimpel, 2017). Therefore, it is possible that our results for post‐REAL ID responsiveness, which encompass only three presidents: George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump, are driven by the unusual character of Trump's issue focus.…”

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Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of real ID for immigration policy

Stobb

Miller

Kennedy

2022

Policy Studies Journal

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Policies concerning undocumented immigrants are inevitably ambivalent, creating uncertainty and confusion in the implementation process. We identify a clear example of this ambivalence —U.S. law setting standards for determining the credibility of asylum seekers—that resulted in an increase in asylum grants despite policymakers' intention to make it harder for individuals to obtain the status. We argue that this law, The REAL ID Act of 2005, sent mixed messages to immigration judges (IJs), street‐level bureaucrats who implement immigration policy. It increased IJ discretion, but set vague limits. We theorize that IJs, behaving in a bounded rationality framework, use their professional legal training as a short‐cut and look primarily to the courts for guidance. Our evidence supports our argument. After the passage of the REAL ID Act, IJ decision‐making is more closely aligned with the preferences of their political and legal principals, and, in the final score, the federal circuit courts are the winners.

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“…Based on the work of Hillygus and Shields (2008), we also focus on typical wedge issues to examine closely how these more contentious issues are used in targeted messages. Based on Gimpel (2019), we focus on the issue of immigration, as he suggested that since 2016, voters “began to align their policy views with the positions of their favored political parties” (p. 467) and that “[t]he association between party identification and immigration policy views reaches a local peak by 2018” (Gimpel, 2019, p. 473). Furthermore, we focus on divisive issues, based on previous work by Hillygus and Shields (2008) and on the issues which were in 2018 of importance in the public debate.…”

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(Tar)getting you: The use of online political targeted messages on Facebook

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This study examines how mainstream political actors and other organizations use political targeted messages. For this purpose, a data set from ProPublica is used. The study examines 55,918 sponsored Facebook ads that were posted by 236 political actors (i.e., political elites and other organizations) in the United States. (1) Topic classification was used to identify policy issues, (2) network analysis to identify the main policy issues from the various political actors, and (3) Sankey diagrams to visualize microtargeted messages. Our findings indicate that actors focus on traditionally owned issues (i.e., the Democratic Party: environmental policy, social issues, and social welfare; the Republican Party: foreign affairs, law, and government finances). No clear evidence for a focus on wedge issues can be found, however, some first indications (e.g., a focus on reproductive rights, LGBTQ+) are present in a targeted media environment. All in all, the current study helps us to understand in what way political actors deploy targeted messages.

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From Wedge Issue to Partisan Divide: The Development of Immigration Policy Opinion after 2016

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Latino early adolescents’ psychological and physiological responses during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Latino early adolescents’ psychological and physiological responses during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Mixed messages & bounded rationality: The perverse consequences of real ID for immigration policy

(Tar)getting you: The use of online political targeted messages on Facebook

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