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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w29730 |
来源ID | Working Paper 29730 |
Justifying Dissent | |
Leonardo Bursztyn; Georgy Egorov; Ingar K. Haaland; Aakaash Rao; Christopher Roth | |
发表日期 | 2022-02-07 |
出版年 | 2022 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Dissent plays an important role in any society, but dissenters are often silenced through social sanctions. Beyond their persuasive effects, rationales providing arguments supporting dissenters' causes can increase the public expression of dissent by providing a \social cover" for voicing otherwise-stigmatized positions. Motivated by a simple theoretical framework, we experimentally show that liberals are more willing to post a Tweet opposing the movement to defund the police, are seen as less prejudiced, and face lower social sanctions when their Tweet implies they had first read credible scientific evidence supporting their position. Analogous experiments with conservatives demonstrate that the same mechanisms facilitate anti-immigrant expression. Our findings highlight both the power of rationales and their limitations in enabling dissent and shed light on phenomena such as social movements, political correctness, propaganda, and anti-minority behavior. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Economics of Information ; Behavioral Economics ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Other ; Economic Systems |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29730 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587404 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Leonardo Bursztyn,Georgy Egorov,Ingar K. Haaland,et al. Justifying Dissent. 2022. |
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