On Solid Ground: Evaluating the Effects of Foundational Arguments on Human Rights Attitudes

Arves, Stephen; Braun, Joseph

doi:10.1007/s12142-019-0545-7

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“…Activists in Uganda and in similar situations may wish to consider other ways to communicate, which may be more familiar to their audiences (Mutua, 2009). Arves & Braun (2019) have documented in a US context the ways in which different rights messages can backfire with certain audiences.…”

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Primed, but not engaged: the poor performance of self-efficacy primes in promoting civic engagement, in a laboratory experiment in Uganda

Lab¹

2021

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Civic engagement is considered an important element of a healthy polity. Yet, many attempts to induce it fail, and experimental evidence on ‘what works’ to induce it is limited. Further, most experimental studies in this area of research focus on self-reported or low-cost proxy behavior outcomes. This paper describes a laboratory experiment with 809 participants to measure the impact of short behaviorally-informed messages on civic engagement in Uganda. We randomly assign participants to three treatment audio messages, applying different self-efficacy enhancing techniques, and one control audio, and measure their effect on two primary components of civic engagement: a lab measure of attention to political and pre-political information, and a real-world activity measure: attendance at a community meeting. We find that short audio messages can prompt people to pay more attention to pre-political information, but do not encourage overall civic engagement behavior, and some treatments produce a significant negative effect on our measures of engagement. We also find that a rights-focused message, closely modelling current civil society practice, does not generate increased civic engagement. We conclude that one-off behaviorally informed audio messages are insufficient to generate civic engagement in this context.

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Primed, but not engaged: the poor performance of self-efficacy primes in promoting civic engagement, in a laboratory experiment in Uganda

Lab¹

2021

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“…59 While a message frame emphasizing prisoners' suffering reduces support for torture in the aggregate, it increases support for torture among Conservatives. 60 As these conditional effects are generally not the focus of theories and hypothesis tests, however, they tend to be reported as additional analyses or as avenues for future research. 61 We lack systematic evidence of how the effects of contextual factors describing the circumstances of torture vary across different types of individuals.…”

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What Shapes Public Support for Torture, and Among Whom?

Hatz¹

2021

Human Rights Quarterly

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What drives individuals to condone state torture? This paper advances our understanding through a brief systematic literature review and an exploratory analysis of existing studies. It reviews and probes the results of prior research collectively in order to serve as a starting point for future research. It finds that, across a selection of existing survey experiments, certain sub-groups are influenced by variations in the context in which torture take place, while others hold categorical views. In democracies especially, insights into what shapes public attitudes towards state torture, and among whom, can be informative for the protection of human rights.

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“…[17]), including in IR. Conservatives are less willing to act against foreign human rights violations [30], and are less supportive of foreign economic aid [19*, 31,32]. They also tend to defend the existing economic system, and downplay climate change [33].…”

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Ideology and international relations

Gries

Yam

2020

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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What is the relationship between ideology and international relations (IR)? The extant literature focuses on how the former shapes the latter. Confrontation between Liberalism and Fascism, Communism, and Authoritarianism have sequentially structured IR over the past Century. While such all-encompassing Ideologies may unify the people of different nations in (often opposing) worldviews, liberal/left and conservative/right ideologies can divide citizens within nations. Dimensions of ideology like social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism also shape international attitudes in distinct ways. These individual-level ideologies and their attendant worldviews shape state-level foreign policies and system-level IR (the micro-macro link) through elite decision-making and public opinion. An emerging literature also reverses the causal arrow, exploring how health, terrorism and other system-level threats can shape individual-level ideologies. This review reveals how ideologies powerfully shape the very worlds that we experience and act upon-and their vital role in driving war and peace.

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On Solid Ground: Evaluating the Effects of Foundational Arguments on Human Rights Attitudes

Cited by 4 publications

References 46 publications

Primed, but not engaged: the poor performance of self-efficacy primes in promoting civic engagement, in a laboratory experiment in Uganda

Primed, but not engaged: the poor performance of self-efficacy primes in promoting civic engagement, in a laboratory experiment in Uganda

What Shapes Public Support for Torture, and Among Whom?

Ideology and international relations

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