Why Do White Americans Oppose Race-Targeted Policies? Clarifying the Impact of Symbolic Racism.
Why Do White Americans Oppose Race-Targeted Policies? Clarifying the Impact of Symbolic Racism.
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为什么美国白人反对针对种族的政策？
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9221.2009.00726.x
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Krosnick,JonA
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作者：
Rabinowitz,JoshuaL;Sears,DavidO;Sidanius,Jim;Krosnick,JonA
象征性种族主义（SR）的措施经常被用来挖掘对黑人的种族偏见。然而，考虑到用于此目的的问题的措辞，对帮助黑人的政策的态度的一些明显影响可能是由于政治保守主义，对政府的态度，和/或对一般再分配政府政策的态度。使用全国概率抽样调查和实验的数据，我们探讨了SR是否有影响，即使控制这些潜在的混淆，其影响是否是特定的政策，涉及黑人。持保守主义和对有限政府的态度，SR预测白人反对旨在帮助黑人的政策，更弱地预测对受益人种族模糊的社会计划的态度。政策受益人的实验操作显示，SR预测政策的态度时，黑人的受益人，但不是当妇女。这些研究结果是一致的索赔，SR的协会与种族政策的偏好是不是由于这些混淆。
Measures of symbolic racism (SR) have often been used to tap racial prejudice toward Blacks. However, given the wording of questions used for this purpose, some of the apparent effects on attitudes toward policies to help Blacks may instead be due to political conservatism, attitudes toward government, and/or attitudes toward redistributive government policies in general. Using data from national probability sample surveys and an experiment, we explored whether SR has effects even when controlling for these potential confounds and whether its effects are specific to policies involving Blacks. Holding constant conservatism and attitudes toward limited government, SR predicted Whites' opposition to policies designed to help Blacks and more weakly predicted attitudes toward social programs whose beneficiaries were racially ambiguous. An experimental manipulation of policy beneficiaries revealed that SR predicted policy attitudes when Blacks were the beneficiary but not when women were. These findings are consistent with the claim that SR's association with racial policy preferences is not due to these confounds.