Presidential Appeals to Moral Foundations
How Modern Presidents Persuade Cross‐Ideologues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6330236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew R Miles (0000-0002-8165-0851, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 471-490 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/psj.12151 |
| OpenAlex | W2288329225 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 55 |
Many assume that modern presidents cannot persuade cross‐ideologues to support their policy proposals. The idea that a conservative would support a liberal policy advocated by a cross‐partisan president seems ludicrous. However, recent research suggests that conservatives will support liberal policies that are framed consistent with moral foundations. Using a national survey experiment that carefully manipulates the actual text of a speech given by President Obama, this article demonstrates that fairness frames in presidential speeches motivate liberal policy support among conservative, moderate, and liberal Americans who value fairness
Economics · Ideology · Liberalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Presidential system · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Academic Freedom and Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Public Administration · Social and Intergroup Psychology
Historical Change in the Moral Foundations of Political Persuasion
How Moral Reframing Enhances Political Persuasion
Sports elites, counter‐stereotypical statements, and immigration attitudes
The moral foundations of crime control in American presidential platforms, 1968–2016
Social identities in the policy process
Susceptibility to Moral Arguments Among Liberals and Conservatives
Playing with Emotions
Moral Foundation Measurements Fail to Converge on Multilingual Party Manifestos
How Noninstitutionalized Policy Innovation Is Justified
Ideology Justifies Morality
Does moral rhetoric fuel or reduce divides between parties and non-copartisan voters
Binding Morality and Perceived Harm as Sources of Moral Regulation Law Support Among Political and Religious Conservatives
Administration, rhetoric, and climate policy in the Obama presidency
What Americans know about politics and why it matters
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
The Myth of Presidential Representation
The Rational Public
The Partisan Sort
Tides of Consent
Three Steps toward a Theory of Motivated Political Reasoning
How Regulatory Fit Affects Value in Consumer Choices and Opinions
Shifting Liberal and Conservative Attitudes Using Moral Foundations Theory
Moral foundations vignettes
Computational Tools for Probing Interactions in Multiple Linear Regression, Multilevel Modeling, and Latent Curve Analysis
The emotional dog and its rational tail
On Deaf Ears
The Foreign Policy Disconnect
From Gulf to Bridge
Above and Below Left–Right
Framing, Motivated Reasoning, and Opinions About Emergent Technologies
Matching Versus Mismatching Attitude Functions
The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes
Addressing Moderated Mediation Hypotheses
Local Newspaper Coverage of the Presidency
Process over outcome
Presidential Position Taking and the Puzzle of Representation
Does Presidential Rhetoric Matter? Priming and Presidential Approval
Presidential Success in Communicating with the Public through Televised Addresses
The Public Presidency, Personal Approval Ratings, and Policy Making
The effects of a salient self-schema on the evaluation of proattitudinal editorials
Going Local
The Presidency in the Era of 24-Hour News
Ideological Realignment in the U.S. Electorate
How Words Do the Work of Politics
Dominating Cues and the Limits of Elite Influence
Political Parties, Motivated Reasoning, and Issue Framing Effects
On the Limits of Framing Effects
The Short-Term Effect of Going Public
Moral Foundations and Heterogeneity in Ideological Preferences
The Aggregated Consequences of Motivated Reasoning and the Dynamics of Partisan Presidential Approval
Beyond the Running Tally
Source Cues and Policy Approval
Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
The Role of Partisan Stereotypes in Information Processing about Political Candidates
Regulatory Fit and Persuasion
Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations
Personal involvement as a determinant of argument-based persuasion
Party Over Policy
Liberals and conservatives rely on common moral foundations when making moral judgments about influential people
Heuristic versus systematic information processing and the use of source versus message cues in persuasion
What Moves Public Opinion
Framing Public Opinion in Competitive Democracies
Elite Influence on Public Opinion in an Informed Electorate
How Elite Partisan Polarization Affects Public Opinion Formation
When Morality Opposes Justice
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |