Framing Redistribution: Perceived Costs to White Americans Fuel Resistance to Racial Equality Policies

• In Event: Experiments on Candidate Choice and Policy Support

Brief Overview

Mitigating White Americans’ resistance to redistributive racial policies is challenging. Two survey experiments show that framing policies as taking from Whites increases opposition through zero-sum perceptions and negative emotions.

Authors

• Dan Glasserman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Roni Porat, Hebrew University of Jerusalem