Differential Norms: Explaining the Contours of Racial Priming in Contemporary American Political Discourse

• In Event: Experiments in Race and Ethnic Politics

Brief Overview

Survey experiments find that the effectiveness of explicit racial appeals varies by the group being targeted which supports the theory of differential norms, in which varying historical trajectories have created different norms of acceptable rhetoric

Author

• Maneesh Arora, University of California-Irvine