That Which We Call Welfare by Any Other Name Would Smell Sweeter an Analysis of the Impact of Question Wording on Response Patterns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7363497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom W Smith (0000-0001-9329-6880), Tom Smith (0000-0001-5084-8729, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-75 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Opinion Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-362X • E-ISSN: 1537-5331 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/269015 |
| OpenAlex | W1967089979 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 132 |
| References cited | 3 |
Responses to survey questions are dependent on the words used in the questions. Sometimes the alteration of words can completely change the response distribution without obviously changing the meaning or intent of the question. This situation occurs when "welfare" is used instead of "poor." In all contexts examined "welfare" produced much more negative and less generous responses than "poor." In addition the two terms appear to tap slightly different dimensions with "welfare" accessing notions of waste and bureaucracy that are untapped or tapped much less by "poor
Bureaucracy · Distribution (mathematics · Economics · Market economy · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public economics · Welfare · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology
Chapter 7 Racial Attitudes and Race-Neutral Social Policies
Political Perception
Inside the Mental Voting Booth
Psychohistory and Political Psychology
Studies of Material Hardship in Psychological Anthropology
Nonverbal Behavior and Leadership
Political Information Processing
The Poly-Psy Relationship
Cognitive Structural Analysis of Political Rhetoric
Affect and Political Judgment
Information and Electoral Attitudes
An Overview of the Field of Political Psychology
The Drunkard’s Search
Decision Making in Presidential Primaries
Race and the politics of welfare reform
Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics
The Power of a Frame
Symbolic Politics
The Role of Self-Interest in Social and Political Attitudes
The Meaning of Partisanship
Political Trust and Support for the Welfare State
Is unemployment benefit stigma related to poverty, payment receipt, or lack of employment? A vignette experiment about Australian views
Does Language Matter? Perceptions of the Use of Diversity Training in the Public Sector Workforce
Labeling effects for the poor
The Psychology of Group Conflict and the Dynamics of Oppression
Making Sense of Public Opinion
Worlds of Welfare and Attitudes to Redistribution
Effects of Conservative Sociopolitical Attitudes on Public Support for Drug Rehabilitation Spending
Who Gives to the Poor? The Influence of Religious Tradition and Political Location on the Personal Generosity of Americans toward the Poor
Beyond Deservingness
New Evidence and Design Considerations for Repeated Measure Experiments in Survey Research
The Polls—Trends
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
Attitudinal Predictors of Preferred Policy Options
Bringing the international economy back in
Reframing Menstruation in India
A War of Words
The Generalizability of Online Experiments Conducted During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Moderator Placement in Survey Experiments
Nostalgia narratives? Pejorative attitudes to welfare in historical perspective
Confronting welfare stereotypes
Public Support for Emergency Shelter Housing Interventions Concerning Stigmatized Populations
Political trust and attitudes towards redistribution
One ‘welfare recipient’ stereotype or many? Using the stereotype content model to examine the stereotypes of different categories of benefit recipients
Sources of nonresponse error in the translation process of survey instruments
Method as Ruse
Should the U.S. Federal Government Expand Its Efforts to Help the Poor? Attitudes of Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans, and Democrats
Predicting Support for Welfare Policies
Methodological Issues in the Use of Survey Data for Measuring and Characterizing Violence Against Women
How does framing affect policy support for emissions mitigation? Testing the effects of ocean acidification and other carbon emissions frames
A Fixed Effects Approach to Assessing Bias in Proxy Reports
Random Probes of GSS Questions
Refining the Total Survey Error Perspective
Assessing Public Opinion After 9/11 and Before the Iraq War
Reframing the Marriage Debate
Seeing Through the Eyes of the Respondent
Changing Connotations and the Evolution of the Effect of Wording
Public support for social security
Opposition to development or opposition to developers? Experimental evidence on attitudes toward new housing
The impact of issue framing on public opinion
Taking stock of schema theory
Framing Variations and Collective Memory
A Design and a Model for Investigating the Heterogeneity of Context Effects in Public Opinion Surveys
People, Race and Place
Dog whistles, covertly coded speech, and the practices that enable them
Stereotypes of U . S . Immigrants from Four Global Regions
Reconsidering the Relationship Between Cultural Theory, Political Ideology, and Political Knowledge
I Don't Agree with Giving Cash”
Asking About “Prostitution”, “Sex Work” and “Transactional Sex”
Mixed Loyalties. The Middle Class, Support for Public Spending and Government Efficacy in Times of Welfare Retrenchment
A rose by any other name
Attitude structure and belief accessibility
Can we turn shirkers into workers
What’s in a Word? Just vs. Fair vs. Appropriate Earnings for Self and Others
Race, Education, and Individualism Revisited
Popular Explanations of Poverty
Effects of Survey Question Comprehensibility on Response Quality
Framing responsibility for political issues
Survey Research
Public perceptions of the proper role of the state
Protest and Congressional Behavior
Issue Frames and Group-Centrism in American Public Opinion
Gun Policy, Opinion, Tragedy, and Blame Attribution
How Framing Gender Diversity in Government Affects Perceptions of Substantive Representation
Racial Attitudes and Opposition to Welfare
Group Affect and Attribution in Social Policy Opinion
Adjusting Survey Estimates for Response Bias
Do Respondents Really "Mark All That Apply" On Self-Administered Questions
The Effect of Question Wording on Public Support for Government Spending
Race and Poverty in America
The Influence of Perceived Deservingness on Policy Decisions Regarding Aid to the Poor
Racial Perceptions and Evaluative Responses to Welfare
Social-Science Research and the General Social Surveys
Public Attitudes toward Government Spending
Issue Framing and Public Opinion on Government Spending
Educating Kids’ Versus ‘Coddling Criminals
El valor de la ambivalencia. Las actitudes ante la meritocracia, la igualdad y el Estado de Bienestar en España en perspectiva comparada
Federalism and Public Responsiveness to Policy
The Guns of Autumn
Modeling Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Survey Experiments with Bayesian Additive Regression Trees
| Unique citing works | 132 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,47 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2026 (39) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 132 |