Current research overstates American support for political violence.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
; 119(12): e2116870119, 2022 03 22.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35302889
SignificanceRecent political events show that members of extreme political groups support partisan violence, and survey evidence supposedly shows widespread public support. We show, however, that, after accounting for survey-based measurement error, support for partisan violence is far more limited. Prior estimates overstate support for political violence because of random responding by disengaged respondents and because of a reliance on hypothetical questions about violence in general instead of questions on specific acts of political violence. These same issues also cause the magnitude of the relationship between previously identified correlates and partisan violence to be overstated. As policy makers consider interventions designed to dampen support for violence, our results provide critical information about the magnitude of the problem.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Politics
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Violence
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Country/Region as subject:
America do norte
Language:
En
Journal:
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Year:
2022
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Article