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Roles of Linked Fate and Black Political Knowledge in Shaping Black Responses to Group Messages

Mack, Brianna Nicole
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9651-4422
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534664862644535

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Political Science.
This dissertation explores the relationship between linked fate, political knowledge and message cues. I argue there is a relationship between Black political knowledge, linked fate, and attitudes that varies based on the salience of the issue in question, the source of the message, tone of the message and the recipient's strength of linked fate and amount of Black political knowledge they possessed. This argument draws on research on political attitudes, political knowledge, and psycho-political behavior within the Black community. I conceptualize Black political knowledge as the range of factual information about Black racial group's role in and relationship with the American political system stored in one's memory. Afterwards I introduce the Black political knowledge battery, a 14-item measurement of said concept with questions about the historical, policy, and partisanship aspects of the racial group's political behavior. Afterwards, I use the battery in a survey experiment to examine the relationship between issue salience, message cues, linked fate and Black political knowledge. The data analysis chapter determined support for as well as rejection of the theoretical framework, albeit aspects of the model. Results determined linked fate and Black political knowledge have profound influence on Black responses to group messages regardless of the salience of the issue in the message. However, that influence can be affected by message cues in less racially salient treatments. Likewise, a two-way significant interaction between Black political knowledge and linked fate was discovered, where highly linked and knowledgeable individuals give vastly different responses than high-linked, low-knowledge individuals. This finding supports the theoretical assertion that there is a difference between linked fate and Black political knowledge, such that those who are highly linked but have low knowledge will be more likely to agree with the message described.
Kathleen McGraw (Committee Chair)
Thomas Nelson (Committee Co-Chair)
Nathaniel Swigger (Committee Member)
Ismail White (Committee Member)
319 p.
African Americans; Black Studies; Political Science
political knowledge; linked fate; political attitudes; issue salience; Black political behavior; message cues

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  • Mack, B. N. (2018). Roles of Linked Fate and Black Political Knowledge in Shaping Black Responses to Group Messages [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534664862644535

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mack, Brianna. Roles of Linked Fate and Black Political Knowledge in Shaping Black Responses to Group Messages. 2018. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534664862644535.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mack, Brianna. "Roles of Linked Fate and Black Political Knowledge in Shaping Black Responses to Group Messages." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534664862644535

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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