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Barbarians at the Gate & Neighbors Next Door: Policy Knowledge, Anxiety, & Public Opinion about Immigration in the U.S.

Barbarians at the Gate & Neighbors Next Door: Policy Knowledge, Anxiety, & Public Opinion about Immigration in the U.S.

Authors: Robert Gulotty, Michael A. Neblo

Project Description: This paper utilizes a survey experiment to investigate whether learning relevant factual information affects Americans' motivations for their policy attitudes on undocumented immigration. Unlike previous research looking only at aggregate policy preferences, this study finds that factual interventions systematically change the reasons behind policy attitudes, particularly regarding concerns about jobs, criminality, and public goods. The results suggest that while information uptake is conditioned by ideological and material concerns (motivated reasoning), informed individuals do update their policy concerns in light of facts.

Publication Details: Paper prepared for presentation at the 2010 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (Draft: April 15, 2010)

Keywords: Immigration, Public Opinion, Motivated Reasoning, Policy Knowledge, Anxiety, Survey Experiment

Filters: Draft, Conference Paper

Filters: 2010, General