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Issue Framing Experiment

An issue framing experiment manipulates how a political issue is described, emphasizing different considerations, to test how framing shifts opinion. Nelson, Clawson and Oxley's (1997) classic study showed that framing a Klan rally as a free-speech issue versus a public-order issue changed tolerance judgments, and Chong and Druckman (2007) systematized framing theory and the experimental methods used to estimate framing effects.

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Issue Framing Experiment in Political Communication
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / political-psychology
  • Nelson, T. E., Clawson, R. A., & Oxley, Z. M. (1997). Media framing of a civil liberties conflict and its effect on tolerance. American Political Science Review, 91(3), 567-583. · DOI 10.2307/2952075
  • Chong, D., & Druckman, J. N. (2007). Framing theory. Annual Review of Political Science, 10, 103-126. · DOI 10.1146/annurev.polisci.10.072805.103054
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Used in the same domainCandidate Evaluation Modelmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyMotivated Reasoning Experimentmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPolitical Knowledge Scalemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPolitical Tolerance Scalemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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