Immigrants, deviants, and drug users: A rhetorical analysis of President Trump's fear‐driven tweets during the 2019 government shutdown

Bustinza, Monica A.; Witkowski, Kaila

doi:10.1002/poi3.313

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“…It is also one of the few policy studies that explore emotions using a comprehensive list. Whereas many studies might analyze one emotion in isolation, such as fear (Bustinza & Witkowski, 2022; Pierce, 2021) this study analyzed twelve of them. Ultimately, by highlighting the role of emotional expressions in public policy discourse, this paper paints a more complete picture of the way that actors engage in debate on conflictual issues and express their beliefs—it highlights the emotional contours of public deliberation, and potentially how we can understand and influence them in positive way as far as public policy is concerned.…”

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How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach

Gabehart

Fullerton

Crawford

et al. 2023

Review of Policy Research

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While emotions are an inherent component of the human experience that influence behavior, values, and beliefs, they have largely been left out of policy process studies theoretically and methodologically. Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), with its focus on how individuals coalesce into coalitions around a set of common beliefs, we begin to situate emotions as a critical component of belief systems and discourse about public policies. This study analyzes legislative testimony from four policies debated during the 2021 Colorado Legislative Session using discourse analysis to identify the emotions and coalitional beliefs. We find that policy actors express emotions and beliefs similarly to other policy actors in the same coalition and differently from policy actors in the opposing coalition. We conclude this paper by discussing the theoretical and methodological contributions of including emotions in the ACF. The move to incorporate the analysis of emotional expressions, and hence the study of affect, into the ACF mirrors the ongoing incorporation of how people feel in politics and not just how they think.

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How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach

Gabehart

Fullerton

Crawford

et al. 2023

Review of Policy Research

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Immigrant Threat or Institutional Context? Examining Police Agency and County Context and the Implementation of the 287(g) Program

Wirth,

Baumer

2024

The Sociological Quarterly

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Did People Really “Leave It Blank”? A Tale of What Became of the Census Citizenship Question and Allocation Trends Through Time

Smalley,

Karthik

2024

Statistics, Politics and Policy

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The 2020 Decennial Census garnered unprecedented attention due to the proposed reintroduction of the citizenship question by the Trump Administration. The legal imperative to respond to the Census and the sensitive nature of the citizenship question led to tensions and public outrage. This paper discusses the controversy surrounding the addition of the citizenship question and its implications on vulnerable communities, particularly undocumented immigrants and communities of color. Although the citizenship question was ultimately not added to the 2020 Decennial Census, it continued to be asked on the American Community Survey (ACS). We examine how negative public sentiment during this time, in tandem with historical mistrust of government data collection, may have manifested as item non-response within the ACS, specifically on questions relating to citizenship status and, more broadly, the Origin and Language subgroup of questions. The analyses in this paper explore trends in non-response rates from the American Community Survey from 2014 to 2022. Item allocation rates are used as a proxy for non-response to questions relating to citizenship. A variety of data visualization tools, supported by statistical methods, are employed to weave connections between allocation trends and the proposed addition of the citizenship question to the Decennial Census. We aim to bring transparency to this issue to educate and encourage response within vulnerable communities by emphasizing the importance of accurate data collection and positive perceptions of government-issued surveys, which are used to make key legislative decisions and create a more democratic nation.

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Immigrants, deviants, and drug users: A rhetorical analysis of President Trump's fear‐driven tweets during the 2019 government shutdown

Cited by 5 publications

References 70 publications

How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach

How are emotions and beliefs expressed in legislative testimonies? An advocacy coalition approach

Immigrant Threat or Institutional Context? Examining Police Agency and County Context and the Implementation of the 287(g) Program

Did People Really “Leave It Blank”? A Tale of What Became of the Census Citizenship Question and Allocation Trends Through Time

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