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Readings are below
Part One: Theories of how people think and how policies are framed
Week 1. Aug 23, 25, Introduction and a first theory: Causal Stories
Tuesday: Introductions and overview of the course
Thursday: Stone, Deborah A. 1989. Causal
Stories and the Formation of Policy Agendas. Political Science Quarterly
104, 2: 281-300.
Week 2. Aug 30, target populations
Tuesday: Schneider, Anne, and Helen Ingram. 1993. Social
Construction of Target Populations: Implications for Politics and Policy.
American Political Science Review 87, 2: 334-47.
No class on Thursday this week; Baumgartner at the APSA meetings.
Week 3. Sep 6, 8, Gaining, Losing, and Risk (Tuesday), Good and Bad News (Thursday)
Tuesday: Tversky, Amos, and Daniel Kahneman. 1973. Judgment
under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Science 185 (4157): 1124-31.
Slovic, Paul. 1987. Perception
of Risk. Science 236 (4799): 280-85.
Thursday: Baumeister, Roy F., Ellen Bratslavsky, Catrin Finkenauer, and Kathleen D. Vohs. 2001. Bad Is Stronger Than Good. Review of General Psychology 5: 323-370.
Graphing and keyword searching assignment, due Sept 15: Use the library web site to go to E-Resources, then Lexis-Nexis Academic, then pick The New York Times, then develop your own set of keywords that you believe tap into the concept of the US inflation rate. Enter your data in the spreadsheet, and save the spreadsheet while renaming it with your last name (Jones.xlsx). Email that sheet to Kevin Roach kevroach@live.unc.edu on the due date (or before). Copy the figure and paste it into the word document (replacing the one in the template), make sure it looks right (e.g., not distorted, 6.5 inches wide), and revise the template to describe accurately what you did and what you think of the results. This assignment is designed to get you familiar with keyword searching, so take your time with it and play around with different versions of the searches, getting yourself comfortable with boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT, W/5, W/P), parentheses, quotation marks, and wildcards (?, *) and what they do in the Lexis-Nexis environment. Also, I want you familiar with how to put a graph in a document and discuss what the trends indicate. Click here for the spreadsheet and here for the document templates. Your collective results are here.
Week 4. Sep 13, 15, Episodes v. Themes (Tuesday); Venues and Images (Thursday)
Tuesday: Aaroe, Lene. 2011.
Investigating Frame Strength: The Case of Episodic and Thematic Frames.
Political Communication 28: 207-26.
Thursday: Baumgartner, Frank R., and Bryan D. Jones. 1991.
Agenda Dynamics and Policy Subsystems. Journal of Politics 53 (November):
1044-74.
*** First assignment due in class and by email, Sept 15, as per class web site.***
Week 5. Sep 20, 22, Motivated reasoning, or why it is hard to make people change
their mind
Tuesday: Lord, Charles G., Lee Ross, and Mark R. Lepper. 1979. Biased
Assimilation and Attitude Polarization: The Effects of Prior Theories on Subsequently
Considered Evidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
37 (11): 2098-2109.
Thursday: Ditto, Peter H. and David F. Lopez. 1992. Motivated
Skepticism: Use of Differential Decision Criteria for Preferred and Nonpreferred
Conclusions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 63 (4):
568-84.
Kunda, Ziva. 1990. The Case
for Motivated Reasoning. Psychological Bulletin 108, 3: 480-98.
Part Two: Race
Week 6. Sep 27, 29. A general overview, and two very troubling applications.
Tuesday: Goff, Phillip A., Claude M. Steele, and Paul G. Davies. 2008.
The Space between Us: Stereotype Threat and Distance in Interracial Contexts.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 94, 1: 91-107.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, Amanda Lewis, and David G. Embrick. 2004.I
Did Not Get That Job Because of a Black Man...: The Story Lines and Testimonies
of Color-Blind Racism. Sociological Forum 19, 4 (December): 555-81.
Thursday: Eberhardt, Jennifer L., Paul G. Davies, Valerie J. Purdie-Vaughns,
and Sheri Lynn Johnson. 2005/06.
Looking Deathworthy: Perceived Stereotypicality of Black Defendants Predicts
Capital-Sentencing Outcomes. Psychological Science 17, 5: 383-6.
Eberhardt, Jennifer L., Nilanjana Dasgupta, and Tracy L. Banaszynski. 2003.
Believing is Seeing: The Effects of Racial Labels and Implicit Beliefs on Face
Perception. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 29, 3 (March):
360-70.
Week 7. Oct 4, 6 Criminal Justice Applications
Tuesday: Boushey, Graeme. 2016.
Targeted for Diffusion? How the Use and Acceptance of Stereotypes Shape the
Diffusion of Criminal Justice Policy Innovations in the American States.
American Political Science Review 110, 1: 198-214.
Thursday: Geller, Amanda, and Jeffrey Fagan. 2010. Pot
as Pretext: Marijuana, Race and the New Disorder in New York City Street Policing.
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 7, 4: 591-633.
***Due on October 6: 2 pages (single spaced) including your term paper topic, your choice of design, 5 good citations, and the beginnings of your definition of the relevant frames surrounding the issue. Click here is you'd like to participate in a joint paper project.***
Week 8. Oct 11, 13. Super-predators
Tuesday: DiIulio, John J., Jr. 1995. The
Coming of the Super-Predators. The Weekly Standard. 27 Nov.
DiIulio, John J., Jr. 1996. My
Black Crime Problem, and Ours. City Journal n.p.
Thursday:
Gluck, Stephen. 1997. Wayward
Youth, Super Predator: An Evolutionary Tale of Juvenile Delinquency from the
1950s to the Present. Corrections Today 59, 3: 62-64,66.
Rattan A, Levine CS, Dweck CS, Eberhardt JL. 2012.
Race and the Fragility of the Legal Distinction between Juveniles and Adults.
PLoS ONE 7, 5: e36680.
Week 9. Oct 18, The Superpredators idea goes out of style
Tuesday: Bazelon, Lara A. 2000. Exploding
the Superpredator Myth: Why Infancy is the Preadolescent's Best Defense in Juvenile
Court. New York University Law Review 75: 159-198.
Becker, Elizabeth. 2001.
As Ex-Theorist on Young 'Superpredators,' Bush Aide Has Regrets. The
New York Times: A19.
*** Overview of your data collection and draft section explaining your keywords,
frames, and data collection process due October 18. 5 pages single-spaced.***
No class on Th Oct 20, Happy Fall Break
Week 10. Oct 25, 27, Punitivenss and the beginnings of a reversal. Slides
for class today.
Tuesday: Enns, Peter K. 2014. The Public's
Increasing Punitiveness and Its Influence on Mass Incarceration in the United
States. American Journal of Political Science 58, 4: 857-872.
Thursday: Dagan, David, and Steven M. Teles. 2015. The
Social Construction of Policy Feedback: Incarceration, Conservatism, and Ideological
Change. Studies in American Political Development 29 (October): 127-153.
Week 11. Nov 1, 3 Race and Punitiveness (Tuesday); Rehab in Prison Doesn't
Work, Oops (Thursday)
Tuesday: Peffley, Mark, and Jon Hurwitz. 2007. Persuasion
and Resistance: Race and the Death Penalty in America. American Journal
of Political Science 51, 4: 996-1012.
Hetey, Rebecca C., and Jennifer L. Eberhardt. 2014. Racial
Disparities in Incarceration Increase Acceptance of Punitive Policies. Psychological
Science 25, 10 (October): 1949-54.
Thursday: Martinson, Robert. 1974. What
Works? Questions and Answers about Prison Reform. The Public Interest
35: 22-54.
Martinson, Robert. 1979. New Findings,
New Views: A Note of Caution Regarding Sentencing Reform. Hofstra Law
Review 7, 2: 243-58.
***Note: revised schedule takes Thursday Nov 3 for a workshop / lab session in class focused on your spreadsheets, data collection, and Lexis-Nexis skills. Click here for my general comments on how to write good papers.***
Part Three: Miscellaneous Examples of Framing Effects
Week 12. Nov 8, 10 "Fetal Alcohol Syndrome" (Tuesday) and Prohibition
(Thursday)
Tuesday: Armstrong, Elizabeth M. 1998. Diagnosing
Moral Disorder: The Discovery and Evolution of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Social Science and Medicine 47, 12: 2025-2042.
Jones, Kenneth L., David W. Smith, Christy N. Ulleland, and Ann Pytkowicz Streissguth.
1973. Pattern of
Malformation in Offspring of Chronic Alcoholic Mothers. The Lancet
1, 7815 (9 June): 1267-71.
Thursday: Schrad, Mark Lawrence. 2007. Constitutional
Blemishes: American Alcohol Prohibition and Repeal as Policy Punctuation.
Policy Studies Journal 35, 3: 437-463.
Week 13. Nov 15, 17, Affirmative Action, Taxes
Tuesday: Hirschman, Daniel, Ellen Berrey, and Fiona Rose-Greenland. 2016. Dequantifying
Diversity: Affirmative Action and Admissions at the University of Michigan.
Theory and Society 45: 265-301.
Thursday: Scheve, Kenneth, and David Stasavage. 2012.
Democracy, War, and Wealth: Lessons from Two Centuries of Inheritance Taxation.
American Political Science Review 106, 1 (February): 81-102.
*** Full outline of your paper due November 17. The more you have, the more
I can give feedback on. At a minimum, theory, lit review, beginnings of your
data, good bibliography. Complete drafts are certainly welcome. Double-spaced.***
***Note: revised schedule has Kevin Roach in class for office hours / consulting / help with your data presentations. Your choice of when to hand in your draft paper. I strongly encourage you to give it to me in class on Nov 15 if possible, or email it to me when you can, otherwise I won't have much time to give you feedback.***
Week 14. Nov 22, Framing the poor: a UNC senior thesis, revised
Tuesday: Rose, Max, and Frank R. Baumgartner. 2013. Framing
the Poor: Media Coverage and US Poverty Policy, 1960-2008. Policy Studies
Journal 41, 1: 22-53.
No class on Thursday Nov 24, Happy Thanksgiving
Week 15. Nov 29, Dec 1, Review, presentations, your own research
Tuesday: no readings, class presentations
Thursday: no readings, class presentations
Week 16. Dec 6, last day of class
Tuesday: Review and summary
*** Term papers due in class Dec 6.***
***Final Exam: Thursday 15 December 2016, 4-6pm, in the regular classroom ***
Last updated August 23, 2016