The Dog-Whistle Politics of Personal Responsibility and Welfare-State Privatization in the United States

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Brief Overview

We use a competitive framing experiment to test whether personal responsibility rhetoric functions as a political dog-whistle enabling welfare-state privatization in the area of housing.

Authors

• Tess Elizabeth Wise, Amherst College

• Andreas Wiedemann, Princeton University