Karyn Amira
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karyn Amira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Amira |
| SIGNATURE | AMIRA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1683-8540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ends versus means? Ideology and support for repeals in the mass public
An important, but poorly understood issue in modern American politics is the conservative wing of the Republican party's interest in repealing legislation. Although existing work shows that conservative Republican elites focus more on repeals than in past decades, it remains unclear what the public thinks about this governance approach. We examine this issue with a survey experiment asking respondents to evaluate four policy proposals in Congress…
How the Media Uses the Phrase “Identity Politics”
The phrase “identity politics” has experienced a recent surge in political discourse. However, its meaning varies for highly informed political groups, leaving the term definitionally vague for the general public. Second-level agenda-setting theory can be used to explain how this phrase is communicated to the public by the mass media, a crucial disseminator of political information. We used a quantitative content analysis of major US publications…
Donald Trump’s Effect on Who is Considered “Conservative
Conservative intellectuals have expressed concern that Donald Trump has tarnished the conservative brand with his authoritarian-populist rhetoric and style of governing. What exactly is Donald Trump’s effect on this ideological label? In this paper I replicate work showing that members of Congress who have openly supported Trump are seen as more conservative than those who do not openly support him. I then test this relationship experimentally an…
In-Group Love Versus Out-Group Hate: Which Is More Important to Partisans and When
Does Negative Group Information Moderate Ideological Identity? An Experimental Test
Objective This study tests whether Americans moderate their ideological identity when exposed to news reports that present ideological activists negatively. I hypothesize that certain people will be more likely to do this: high self‐monitors and those with “issue constraint” (consistency in issue positions). Method Two survey experiments are conducted to test these hypotheses: one with a nationally representative sample and one with an online sam…
Adversaries or Allies? Donald Trump’s Republican Support in Congress
Donald Trump’s first year in office received unprecedented media coverage, with many wondering whether congressional Republicans were “adversaries” or “allies” of the president’s legislative positions. We explore this issue from two vantage points. First, we place Trump’s presidency in historical context by forecasting his Republican support with data from 1969 to 2016. We find that Republicans supported Trump’s legislative positions in 2017 at l…
Do People Contrast and Assimilate Candidate Ideology? An Experimental Test of the Projection Hypothesis
In political psychology, positive projection happens when we perceive the positions of liked candidates as closer to our own positions while negative projection means we perceive the positions of disliked candidates as further from our own positions. To date, there is still confusion about whether affective feelings lead to perceptions of candidate positions or perceptions of candidate positions lead to affective feelings. This paper pins down on…
A Tale of Two Democrats: How Authoritarianism Divides the Democratic Party
Authoritarianism has been predominantly used in American politics as a predictor of Republican identification and conservative policy preferences. We argue that this approach has neglected the role authoritarianism plays among Democrats and how it can operate within political parties regardless of their ideological orientation. Drawing from three distinct sets of data, we demonstrate the impact of authoritarianism in the 2016 Democratic Party’s p…
The Southern Accent as a Heuristic in American Campaigns and Elections
Are political candidates perceived differently based on the presence or absence of a southern accent? To address this question, we employ an experimental design that explores reactions to political candidates with a southern accent and a regionally neutral accent. We focus on perceptions of three general categories of candidate characteristics: candidate traits, candidate affect, and candidate issue positions. Overall, we discover that candidates…
Revisiting Dynamic Social Impact Theory: Extensions and Applications for Political Science
In-Group Love Versus Out-Group Hate: Which Is More Important to Partisans and When
A Tale of Two Democrats: How Authoritarianism Divides the Democratic Party
Authoritarianism has been predominantly used in American politics as a predictor of Republican identification and conservative policy preferences. We argue that this approach has neglected the role authoritarianism plays among Democrats and how it can operate within political parties regardless of their ideological orientation. Drawing from three distinct sets of data, we demonstrate the impact of authoritarianism in the 2016 Democratic Party’s p…
Do People Contrast and Assimilate Candidate Ideology? An Experimental Test of the Projection Hypothesis
In political psychology, positive projection happens when we perceive the positions of liked candidates as closer to our own positions while negative projection means we perceive the positions of disliked candidates as further from our own positions. To date, there is still confusion about whether affective feelings lead to perceptions of candidate positions or perceptions of candidate positions lead to affective feelings. This paper pins down on…
The Southern Accent as a Heuristic in American Campaigns and Elections
Are political candidates perceived differently based on the presence or absence of a southern accent? To address this question, we employ an experimental design that explores reactions to political candidates with a southern accent and a regionally neutral accent. We focus on perceptions of three general categories of candidate characteristics: candidate traits, candidate affect, and candidate issue positions. Overall, we discover that candidates…
Adversaries or Allies? Donald Trump’s Republican Support in Congress
Donald Trump’s first year in office received unprecedented media coverage, with many wondering whether congressional Republicans were “adversaries” or “allies” of the president’s legislative positions. We explore this issue from two vantage points. First, we place Trump’s presidency in historical context by forecasting his Republican support with data from 1969 to 2016. We find that Republicans supported Trump’s legislative positions in 2017 at l…
Donald Trump’s Effect on Who is Considered “Conservative
Conservative intellectuals have expressed concern that Donald Trump has tarnished the conservative brand with his authoritarian-populist rhetoric and style of governing. What exactly is Donald Trump’s effect on this ideological label? In this paper I replicate work showing that members of Congress who have openly supported Trump are seen as more conservative than those who do not openly support him. I then test this relationship experimentally an…
Does Negative Group Information Moderate Ideological Identity? An Experimental Test
Objective This study tests whether Americans moderate their ideological identity when exposed to news reports that present ideological activists negatively. I hypothesize that certain people will be more likely to do this: high self‐monitors and those with “issue constraint” (consistency in issue positions). Method Two survey experiments are conducted to test these hypotheses: one with a nationally representative sample and one with an online sam…
Revisiting Dynamic Social Impact Theory: Extensions and Applications for Political Science
How the Media Uses the Phrase “Identity Politics”
The phrase “identity politics” has experienced a recent surge in political discourse. However, its meaning varies for highly informed political groups, leaving the term definitionally vague for the general public. Second-level agenda-setting theory can be used to explain how this phrase is communicated to the public by the mass media, a crucial disseminator of political information. We used a quantitative content analysis of major US publications…
Revisiting Dynamic Social Impact Theory: Extensions and Applications for Political Science
Do People Contrast and Assimilate Candidate Ideology? An Experimental Test of the Projection Hypothesis
In political psychology, positive projection happens when we perceive the positions of liked candidates as closer to our own positions while negative projection means we perceive the positions of disliked candidates as further from our own positions. To date, there is still confusion about whether affective feelings lead to perceptions of candidate positions or perceptions of candidate positions lead to affective feelings. This paper pins down on…
A Tale of Two Democrats: How Authoritarianism Divides the Democratic Party
Authoritarianism has been predominantly used in American politics as a predictor of Republican identification and conservative policy preferences. We argue that this approach has neglected the role authoritarianism plays among Democrats and how it can operate within political parties regardless of their ideological orientation. Drawing from three distinct sets of data, we demonstrate the impact of authoritarianism in the 2016 Democratic Party’s p…
The Southern Accent as a Heuristic in American Campaigns and Elections
Are political candidates perceived differently based on the presence or absence of a southern accent? To address this question, we employ an experimental design that explores reactions to political candidates with a southern accent and a regionally neutral accent. We focus on perceptions of three general categories of candidate characteristics: candidate traits, candidate affect, and candidate issue positions. Overall, we discover that candidates…
Does Negative Group Information Moderate Ideological Identity? An Experimental Test
Objective This study tests whether Americans moderate their ideological identity when exposed to news reports that present ideological activists negatively. I hypothesize that certain people will be more likely to do this: high self‐monitors and those with “issue constraint” (consistency in issue positions). Method Two survey experiments are conducted to test these hypotheses: one with a nationally representative sample and one with an online sam…
Adversaries or Allies? Donald Trump’s Republican Support in Congress
Donald Trump’s first year in office received unprecedented media coverage, with many wondering whether congressional Republicans were “adversaries” or “allies” of the president’s legislative positions. We explore this issue from two vantage points. First, we place Trump’s presidency in historical context by forecasting his Republican support with data from 1969 to 2016. We find that Republicans supported Trump’s legislative positions in 2017 at l…
In-Group Love Versus Out-Group Hate: Which Is More Important to Partisans and When
How the Media Uses the Phrase “Identity Politics”
The phrase “identity politics” has experienced a recent surge in political discourse. However, its meaning varies for highly informed political groups, leaving the term definitionally vague for the general public. Second-level agenda-setting theory can be used to explain how this phrase is communicated to the public by the mass media, a crucial disseminator of political information. We used a quantitative content analysis of major US publications…
Donald Trump’s Effect on Who is Considered “Conservative
Conservative intellectuals have expressed concern that Donald Trump has tarnished the conservative brand with his authoritarian-populist rhetoric and style of governing. What exactly is Donald Trump’s effect on this ideological label? In this paper I replicate work showing that members of Congress who have openly supported Trump are seen as more conservative than those who do not openly support him. I then test this relationship experimentally an…
Ends versus means? Ideology and support for repeals in the mass public
An important, but poorly understood issue in modern American politics is the conservative wing of the Republican party's interest in repealing legislation. Although existing work shows that conservative Republican elites focus more on repeals than in past decades, it remains unclear what the public thinks about this governance approach. We examine this issue with a survey experiment asking respondents to evaluate four policy proposals in Congress…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 works) · Ideology (5 works) · Law (5 works)