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Political Perceptions in the Obama Era: Diverse Opinions of the Great Recession and Its Aftermath among Whites, Latinos, and Blacks.
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Political Research Quarterly . Dec2014, Vol. 67 Issue 4, p823-836. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Using three national surveys from the Great Recession period in America, I demonstrate two aspects of group-based political attitudes beyond citizens’ partisanship preferences: (1) the economic scapegoating of African Americans by whites during the recession and (2) Latinos’ and African Americans’ use of their marginalized economic status as a lens for understanding how mortgage companies and bankers treated their communities during the downturn. I also discuss the broad impact of disparate economic opinions on citizens’ political outlook for the future. The key patterns of political attitudes are shown to be remarkably consistent from 2009 to 2012. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- *POLITICAL attitudes
*GREAT Recession, 2008-2013
*RECESSIONS
*ECONOMIC attitudes
*PUBLIC opinion
*RACIAL differences
*PUBLIC opinion on the banking industry
*ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology)
*SCAPEGOAT
*ATTITUDE (Psychology)
*WHITE people
*AFRICAN American attitudes
*HISPANIC Americans -- Attitudes
*TWENTY-first century
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10659129
- Volume :
- 67
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Political Research Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 99313007
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912914541702