Partisanship and Support for Restricting the Civil Liberties of Suspected Terrorists

• In Event: Partisan Bias, Voters' Evaluations, and Public Opinon Formation

Brief Overview

We use experiments to examine people’s willingness to restrict the civil liberties of suspected terrorists. We find that social categorization (White Nationalist or Islamic Fundamentalist) is consequential, but effects are moderated by partisanship.

Authors

• Cora Caton, University of Kansas

• Kevin J. Mullinix, University of Kansas