The Role of Attitudes’ Strength and Ambivalence in the Effectiveness of Authoritarian Propaganda: Case of Public Opinion on Anti-Transgender Law in Russia

• In Event: Democracy and Attitudes

Brief Overview

Contemporary evidence backs the framing effect, but attitudinal factors impacting its magnitude are unclear. We argue that baseline attitudes’ strength and ambivalence towards the framing issue impact the strength of the framing effect.

Authors

• Georgy Tarasenko, Cornell University

• Natalia Bogatyreva