K T Mccabe
Biographic Data
| ID | 40279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K T Mccabe |
| GIVEN NAMES | K T |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccabe |
| SIGNATURE | MCCABE K T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9183-2918 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 230 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Increasing Voter Participation Through Health Care–Based Voter Registration
This cross-sectional study suggests that health care-based voter mobilization reaches a distinctly younger and more racially and ethnically diverse population relative to those who reported contact from political campaigns. This analysis of the largest health care-based voter mobilization effort points to the unique impact that medical professionals may have on voter registration and turnout in the 2024 US elections. In the long term, health equi…
Race, partisanship, and the distinctiveness of vaccine hesitancy in health care attitudes
Partisanship has served a dominant role in influencing public opinion on health reform in the United States in the past decade. Republicans are significantly less supportive than Democrats of expanding the Affordable Care Act and implementing broader government insurance provisions. With the onset of the pandemic, partisan divisions have also spilled over into polarized attitudes on public health measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 and vaccin…
Context Matters: Understanding Student Usage, Skills, and Attitudes Toward AI to Inform Classroom Policies
With the growing prevalence of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, political science instructors are navigating how to manage the use and misuse of AI in the classroom. This study underscores the prevalence of AI in academic settings and suggests pedagogical practices to integrate AI in the classroom in ways that are informed by students’ current interactions with and attitudes toward AI. Using a survey of undergraduate students in political science cours…
Engaging multiple identity frames in political discussion
Many partisans identify with social groups more typically associated with the opposing party. When both social and partisan identities are made salient in a political environment, this can complicate how people discuss politics and form opinions, as they confront multiple, often competing frames for interpreting political issues and events. This study examines how individuals negotiate cross-cutting frames from partisan and LGBT groups when commu…
Roses and thorns: Political talk in reality TV subreddits
Most online media consumption is not driven by a desire to seek out news and politics. However, the public may still encounter politics because it arises organically in communities devoted to non-political subjects. This study examines the potential of popular reality television online discussion forums to serve as online third spaces and stimulate political discussion due to the natural connections that audiences make between the cast members an…
Public Opinion, Federalism, and Level of Governmental Intervention: Perceptions of Law Enforcement Response to the 2020 George Floyd Protests
In June 2020, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the deployment of federal law enforcement agents to protests against police brutality. Several mayors across the country objected to this unilateral deployment of federal force as unconstitutional. In an online survey experiment, we test whether the public stands against this type of federal power aggrandizement by evaluating how approval of federal intervention in protests chang…
Partisanship, Information, and the Conditional Effects of Scandal on Voting Decisions
Can we learn from 2012? Priming and abortion's influence on voting decisions
The Effect of Streaming Chat on Perceptions of Political Debates
Broadcast media consumption is becoming more social. Many online video “livestreams” come with embedded livestreaming chatboxes, uniting the on-screen and social components. We investigate how streaming chat shapes perceptions of political events. We conducted a field experiment during the September 2019 Democratic Primary Debate where subjects were assigned to view the debate with or without streaming chat. We use text analyses to characterize t…
Proximal contact with Latino immigrants and immigration attitudes
The growth of the Latino community has increased levels of contact between this minority group and the predominately white majority. How does exposure to immigrants impact attitudes towards immigrants and immigration held by white Americans? We argue that previous work has not adequately tested the relationship posited by inter-group contact theory, whereby contact should shape policy attitudes. We test our theory drawing on the 2018 Cooperative …
The Subconscious Effect of Subtle Media Bias on Perceptions of Terrorism
Media outlets strategically frame news about violent events using sensationalist labels such as “terrorist” or “Islamist” but also more subtle wording choices that affect the overall article tone. We argue theoretically and show empirically using a conjoint experiment that, contrary to existing studies, the effect of these two framing devices on readers’ perceptions of terrorist events should be carefully separated. Even though article tone trans…
Priming Legality: Perceptions of Latino and Undocumented Latino Immigrants
Previous work has shown public opinion toward immigrants is malleable based on how immigrants are described in media and elite rhetoric. In a survey experiment on a nationally representative sample of American adults, we extend this research to test for possible priming effects that occur based on how salient documentation status is when respondents proffer opinions on Latino immigrants. Our findings show that when subjects are first asked about …
The Persistence of Racialized Health Care Attitudes: Racial Attitudes among White Adults and Identity Importance among Black Adults
This study evaluates the emergence and persistence of the racial divide on health reform in public opinion using survey data from 2008 through 2017. The findings support existing work showing a consistent relationship between racial resentment and attitudes on the Affordable Care Act among White adults. However, the study also builds on existing work by evaluating the relationship between strength of racial identity among Black adults and health …
Variation in perceptions of sexual identity: Partisanship and personal exposure
Public opinion research on attitudes toward LGB people and policies often implicitly assumes that the public conceptualizes lesbian, gay, or bisexual identity in similar ways. This study empirically tests perceptions of the composition of sexual identity group membership using a survey experiment to examine how people map dimensions of sexual orientation onto discrete sexual identity categories. Respondents are asked to classify the sexual identi…
Person-positivity bias, social category labels, and attitudes toward gays and lesbians
This study assesses how social category labels influence public opinion toward gay and lesbian attitude objects. The results provide some support for the existence of person-positivity bias whereby people express more positive attitudes toward attitude objects that are personalized. In a survey experiment, respondents rated attitude objects where the question wording was manipulated to include either person descriptors or sexuality construct desc…
Personal Experience and Public Opinion: A Theory and Test of Conditional Policy Feedback
Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that personal experience with public health insurance programs exerts a causal influence on attitudes toward both Medicare and the Affordable Care Act. However, we argue that the conditional dynamics of these policy feedback effects differ from standard models of opinion formation and change. Specifically, we find that personal experience can shape preferences among those whose partisanship might o…
College Socialization and the Economic Views of Affluent Americans
Affluent Americans support more conservative economic policies than the nonaffluent, and government responds disproportionately to these views. Yet little is known about the emergence of these consequential views. We develop, test, and find support for a theory of class cultural norms: These preferences are partly traceable to socialization that occurs on predominantly affluent college campuses, especially those with norms of financial gain, and …
Attitude Responsiveness and Partisan Bias: Direct Experience with the Affordable Care Act
Political Ideology, Skin Tone, and the Psychology of Candidate Evaluations
Journal Article Political Ideology, Skin Tone, and the Psychology of Candidate Evaluations Get access Amy E. Lerman, Amy E. Lerman * A my E. L erman is an associate professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Katherine T. McCabe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Meredith L. Sadin is a fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson…
After It’s Too Late: Estimating the Policy Impacts of Black Mayoralties in U.S. Cities
Does a black mayor’s inauguration influence American cities’ policies? The heated rhetoric surrounding some black–white elections suggests that it might. Past research is divided. Yet this question has not been addressed in years or with many observations. This article uses novel data sets including 167 elections and 108 black mayors to examine their impact on fiscal and employment policies. Empirically it uses multiple approaches including regre…
Personal Experience and Public Opinion: A Theory and Test of Conditional Policy Feedback
Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that personal experience with public health insurance programs exerts a causal influence on attitudes toward both Medicare and the Affordable Care Act. However, we argue that the conditional dynamics of these policy feedback effects differ from standard models of opinion formation and change. Specifically, we find that personal experience can shape preferences among those whose partisanship might o…
College Socialization and the Economic Views of Affluent Americans
Affluent Americans support more conservative economic policies than the nonaffluent, and government responds disproportionately to these views. Yet little is known about the emergence of these consequential views. We develop, test, and find support for a theory of class cultural norms: These preferences are partly traceable to socialization that occurs on predominantly affluent college campuses, especially those with norms of financial gain, and …
Attitude Responsiveness and Partisan Bias: Direct Experience with the Affordable Care Act
Political Ideology, Skin Tone, and the Psychology of Candidate Evaluations
Journal Article Political Ideology, Skin Tone, and the Psychology of Candidate Evaluations Get access Amy E. Lerman, Amy E. Lerman * A my E. L erman is an associate professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Katherine T. McCabe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Meredith L. Sadin is a fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson…
After It’s Too Late: Estimating the Policy Impacts of Black Mayoralties in U.S. Cities
Does a black mayor’s inauguration influence American cities’ policies? The heated rhetoric surrounding some black–white elections suggests that it might. Past research is divided. Yet this question has not been addressed in years or with many observations. This article uses novel data sets including 167 elections and 108 black mayors to examine their impact on fiscal and employment policies. Empirically it uses multiple approaches including regre…
Partisanship, Information, and the Conditional Effects of Scandal on Voting Decisions
Person-positivity bias, social category labels, and attitudes toward gays and lesbians
This study assesses how social category labels influence public opinion toward gay and lesbian attitude objects. The results provide some support for the existence of person-positivity bias whereby people express more positive attitudes toward attitude objects that are personalized. In a survey experiment, respondents rated attitude objects where the question wording was manipulated to include either person descriptors or sexuality construct desc…
Race, partisanship, and the distinctiveness of vaccine hesitancy in health care attitudes
Partisanship has served a dominant role in influencing public opinion on health reform in the United States in the past decade. Republicans are significantly less supportive than Democrats of expanding the Affordable Care Act and implementing broader government insurance provisions. With the onset of the pandemic, partisan divisions have also spilled over into polarized attitudes on public health measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 and vaccin…
Proximal contact with Latino immigrants and immigration attitudes
The growth of the Latino community has increased levels of contact between this minority group and the predominately white majority. How does exposure to immigrants impact attitudes towards immigrants and immigration held by white Americans? We argue that previous work has not adequately tested the relationship posited by inter-group contact theory, whereby contact should shape policy attitudes. We test our theory drawing on the 2018 Cooperative …
Priming Legality: Perceptions of Latino and Undocumented Latino Immigrants
Previous work has shown public opinion toward immigrants is malleable based on how immigrants are described in media and elite rhetoric. In a survey experiment on a nationally representative sample of American adults, we extend this research to test for possible priming effects that occur based on how salient documentation status is when respondents proffer opinions on Latino immigrants. Our findings show that when subjects are first asked about …
The Subconscious Effect of Subtle Media Bias on Perceptions of Terrorism
Media outlets strategically frame news about violent events using sensationalist labels such as “terrorist” or “Islamist” but also more subtle wording choices that affect the overall article tone. We argue theoretically and show empirically using a conjoint experiment that, contrary to existing studies, the effect of these two framing devices on readers’ perceptions of terrorist events should be carefully separated. Even though article tone trans…
Context Matters: Understanding Student Usage, Skills, and Attitudes Toward AI to Inform Classroom Policies
With the growing prevalence of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, political science instructors are navigating how to manage the use and misuse of AI in the classroom. This study underscores the prevalence of AI in academic settings and suggests pedagogical practices to integrate AI in the classroom in ways that are informed by students’ current interactions with and attitudes toward AI. Using a survey of undergraduate students in political science cours…
Engaging multiple identity frames in political discussion
Many partisans identify with social groups more typically associated with the opposing party. When both social and partisan identities are made salient in a political environment, this can complicate how people discuss politics and form opinions, as they confront multiple, often competing frames for interpreting political issues and events. This study examines how individuals negotiate cross-cutting frames from partisan and LGBT groups when commu…
Roses and thorns: Political talk in reality TV subreddits
Most online media consumption is not driven by a desire to seek out news and politics. However, the public may still encounter politics because it arises organically in communities devoted to non-political subjects. This study examines the potential of popular reality television online discussion forums to serve as online third spaces and stimulate political discussion due to the natural connections that audiences make between the cast members an…
Public Opinion, Federalism, and Level of Governmental Intervention: Perceptions of Law Enforcement Response to the 2020 George Floyd Protests
In June 2020, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the deployment of federal law enforcement agents to protests against police brutality. Several mayors across the country objected to this unilateral deployment of federal force as unconstitutional. In an online survey experiment, we test whether the public stands against this type of federal power aggrandizement by evaluating how approval of federal intervention in protests chang…
Can we learn from 2012? Priming and abortion's influence on voting decisions
After It’s Too Late: Estimating the Policy Impacts of Black Mayoralties in U.S. Cities
Does a black mayor’s inauguration influence American cities’ policies? The heated rhetoric surrounding some black–white elections suggests that it might. Past research is divided. Yet this question has not been addressed in years or with many observations. This article uses novel data sets including 167 elections and 108 black mayors to examine their impact on fiscal and employment policies. Empirically it uses multiple approaches including regre…
Political Ideology, Skin Tone, and the Psychology of Candidate Evaluations
Journal Article Political Ideology, Skin Tone, and the Psychology of Candidate Evaluations Get access Amy E. Lerman, Amy E. Lerman * A my E. L erman is an associate professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California–Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. Katherine T. McCabe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Meredith L. Sadin is a fellow at the Robert Wood Johnson…
Attitude Responsiveness and Partisan Bias: Direct Experience with the Affordable Care Act
Personal Experience and Public Opinion: A Theory and Test of Conditional Policy Feedback
Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that personal experience with public health insurance programs exerts a causal influence on attitudes toward both Medicare and the Affordable Care Act. However, we argue that the conditional dynamics of these policy feedback effects differ from standard models of opinion formation and change. Specifically, we find that personal experience can shape preferences among those whose partisanship might o…
College Socialization and the Economic Views of Affluent Americans
Affluent Americans support more conservative economic policies than the nonaffluent, and government responds disproportionately to these views. Yet little is known about the emergence of these consequential views. We develop, test, and find support for a theory of class cultural norms: These preferences are partly traceable to socialization that occurs on predominantly affluent college campuses, especially those with norms of financial gain, and …
The Persistence of Racialized Health Care Attitudes: Racial Attitudes among White Adults and Identity Importance among Black Adults
This study evaluates the emergence and persistence of the racial divide on health reform in public opinion using survey data from 2008 through 2017. The findings support existing work showing a consistent relationship between racial resentment and attitudes on the Affordable Care Act among White adults. However, the study also builds on existing work by evaluating the relationship between strength of racial identity among Black adults and health …
Variation in perceptions of sexual identity: Partisanship and personal exposure
Public opinion research on attitudes toward LGB people and policies often implicitly assumes that the public conceptualizes lesbian, gay, or bisexual identity in similar ways. This study empirically tests perceptions of the composition of sexual identity group membership using a survey experiment to examine how people map dimensions of sexual orientation onto discrete sexual identity categories. Respondents are asked to classify the sexual identi…
Person-positivity bias, social category labels, and attitudes toward gays and lesbians
This study assesses how social category labels influence public opinion toward gay and lesbian attitude objects. The results provide some support for the existence of person-positivity bias whereby people express more positive attitudes toward attitude objects that are personalized. In a survey experiment, respondents rated attitude objects where the question wording was manipulated to include either person descriptors or sexuality construct desc…
The Effect of Streaming Chat on Perceptions of Political Debates
Broadcast media consumption is becoming more social. Many online video “livestreams” come with embedded livestreaming chatboxes, uniting the on-screen and social components. We investigate how streaming chat shapes perceptions of political events. We conducted a field experiment during the September 2019 Democratic Primary Debate where subjects were assigned to view the debate with or without streaming chat. We use text analyses to characterize t…
Proximal contact with Latino immigrants and immigration attitudes
The growth of the Latino community has increased levels of contact between this minority group and the predominately white majority. How does exposure to immigrants impact attitudes towards immigrants and immigration held by white Americans? We argue that previous work has not adequately tested the relationship posited by inter-group contact theory, whereby contact should shape policy attitudes. We test our theory drawing on the 2018 Cooperative …
The Subconscious Effect of Subtle Media Bias on Perceptions of Terrorism
Media outlets strategically frame news about violent events using sensationalist labels such as “terrorist” or “Islamist” but also more subtle wording choices that affect the overall article tone. We argue theoretically and show empirically using a conjoint experiment that, contrary to existing studies, the effect of these two framing devices on readers’ perceptions of terrorist events should be carefully separated. Even though article tone trans…
Priming Legality: Perceptions of Latino and Undocumented Latino Immigrants
Previous work has shown public opinion toward immigrants is malleable based on how immigrants are described in media and elite rhetoric. In a survey experiment on a nationally representative sample of American adults, we extend this research to test for possible priming effects that occur based on how salient documentation status is when respondents proffer opinions on Latino immigrants. Our findings show that when subjects are first asked about …
Engaging multiple identity frames in political discussion
Many partisans identify with social groups more typically associated with the opposing party. When both social and partisan identities are made salient in a political environment, this can complicate how people discuss politics and form opinions, as they confront multiple, often competing frames for interpreting political issues and events. This study examines how individuals negotiate cross-cutting frames from partisan and LGBT groups when commu…
Roses and thorns: Political talk in reality TV subreddits
Most online media consumption is not driven by a desire to seek out news and politics. However, the public may still encounter politics because it arises organically in communities devoted to non-political subjects. This study examines the potential of popular reality television online discussion forums to serve as online third spaces and stimulate political discussion due to the natural connections that audiences make between the cast members an…
Public Opinion, Federalism, and Level of Governmental Intervention: Perceptions of Law Enforcement Response to the 2020 George Floyd Protests
In June 2020, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the deployment of federal law enforcement agents to protests against police brutality. Several mayors across the country objected to this unilateral deployment of federal force as unconstitutional. In an online survey experiment, we test whether the public stands against this type of federal power aggrandizement by evaluating how approval of federal intervention in protests chang…
Partisanship, Information, and the Conditional Effects of Scandal on Voting Decisions
Can we learn from 2012? Priming and abortion's influence on voting decisions
Increasing Voter Participation Through Health Care–Based Voter Registration
This cross-sectional study suggests that health care-based voter mobilization reaches a distinctly younger and more racially and ethnically diverse population relative to those who reported contact from political campaigns. This analysis of the largest health care-based voter mobilization effort points to the unique impact that medical professionals may have on voter registration and turnout in the 2024 US elections. In the long term, health equi…
Race, partisanship, and the distinctiveness of vaccine hesitancy in health care attitudes
Partisanship has served a dominant role in influencing public opinion on health reform in the United States in the past decade. Republicans are significantly less supportive than Democrats of expanding the Affordable Care Act and implementing broader government insurance provisions. With the onset of the pandemic, partisan divisions have also spilled over into polarized attitudes on public health measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 and vaccin…
Context Matters: Understanding Student Usage, Skills, and Attitudes Toward AI to Inform Classroom Policies
With the growing prevalence of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, political science instructors are navigating how to manage the use and misuse of AI in the classroom. This study underscores the prevalence of AI in academic settings and suggests pedagogical practices to integrate AI in the classroom in ways that are informed by students’ current interactions with and attitudes toward AI. Using a survey of undergraduate students in political science cours…
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