Doctoral Dissertation Research: Political Incivility, Social Identity and American Democracy

博士论文研究：政治不文明、社会认同与美国民主

• 批准号: 1938706
• 负责人: James Druckman
• 金额: $ 1.49万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1938706&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Incivility

Popular and scholarly arguments state that uncivil discourse is bad for democracy because it hampers political trust and potentially sharpens polarization. Thus, uncivil political discourse is seen as contrary to a good democratic society. These arguments could be overstated for two reasons: (1) there may be no common understanding of what constitutes uncivil discourse; (2) incivility can prompt increased political participation among some groups. Drawing on two survey experiments, this project examines influences on individuals’ perceptions of incivility and whether exposure to incivility encourages individuals to participate. Investigating these phenomena will reveal to what extent the negative outcomes of incivility are overstated, and to what extent there are positive outcomes of incivility. This study of political incivility advances research in political communication, political psychology, and public opinion. Existing scholarship tends to treat political incivility as some objective phenomena that is responded to in similar manners across different contexts. Using survey experiments, this project tests instead whether people form their own assessments of what is uncivil, depending on the context and according to their own political and social biases and whether different social groups respond to incivility in positive ways. Overall, this project is the first empirical study that demonstrates the relevance of social identity to the study of political incivility and whether incivility has the potential to produce some desirable outcomes in democratic society.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

流行而科学的论点指出，不文明的话语对民主有害，因为它阻碍了政治信任并有可能使两极分化变得更加激烈。这些论点可能被夸大了两个原因：（1）可能对什么构成不文明话语没有共同的理解； （2）不适性会促使某些群体之间的政治参与增加。利用两个调查实验，该项目考试会影响个人对无效性的看法以及暴露于不适性是否会鼓励个人参与。研究这些现象将在多大程度上透露不可能的负面结果，并在多大程度上有阳性的不便结果。这项关于政治不适性的研究在政治传播，政治心理学和公众舆论方面的研究进步。现有的科学倾向于将政治上的不适视为某种客观现象，这些现象在不同情况下以类似的方式做出了反应。使用调查实验，该项目测试人们是否根据背景以及他们自己的政治和社会偏见以及不同的社会团体是否以积极的方式对不适当做出反应，人们是否对不文明的评估进行了评估。总体而言，该项目是第一项证明社会认同与政治倾向研究的相关性，以及倾向是否有可能在民主社会中产生一些理想的结果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。