(Partisan) Elite Messaging and Emotion in Public Health Crises

• In Event: Lightning Talk: Politics in Times of Crisis

Brief Overview

What role do partisan elite cues play in the development of anxiety about public health outbreaks? I vary exposure to fear-inducing health communication via medical or co/out-partisan sources, and gauge its impacts on affect and policy attitudes.

Authors

• Nicholas D'Amico, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

• Shana Kushner Gadarian, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University