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Americans are not invulnerable to factual information. They do not
'backfire'; facts do not make them less accurate. Instead, they
become more accurate, even when corrections target co-partisans.
Corrections of fake news yield similar results. Among Republicans,
Trump's misstatements are less susceptible to corrections than
identical misstatements attributed to other Republicans. While we
do not observe facts affecting attitudes, multiple instances of
misinformation can increase approval of the responsible politician
- but corrections can reduce approval by similar amounts. While
corrections do not eliminate false beliefs, they reduce the share
of inaccurate beliefs among subjects in this study nearly in half.
Citizens are asked to buy, and asked to consider to buy, goods of
all sizes and all prices, nearly all of the time. Appeals to
political decision-making are less common. In The Consumer Citizen,
Ethan Porter investigates how the techniques of everyday consumer
experiences can shape political behavior. Drawing on more than a
dozen original studies, he shows that the casual conflation of
consumer and political decisions has profound implications for how
Americans think about politics. Indeed, Porter explains that
consumer habits can affect citizens' attitudes about their
government, their taxes, their politicians, and even whether they
purchase government-sponsored health insurance. The consumer
citizen approaches government as if it were just an ordinary firm.
Of course, government is not an ordinary firm--far from it--and the
disjunction between what government is, and the consumer apparatus
that citizens bring to bear on their evaluations of it, offers
insight into several long-unanswered questions in political
behavior and public opinion. How do many Americans make sense of
the political world? The Consumer Citizen offers a novel answer: By
relying on the habits and tools that they learn as consumers.
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