Lee Sigelman
George Washington University
216 Papers
2.3K Citations
Lee Sigelman is an academic researcher from George Washington University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Voting. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 216 publications. Previous affiliations of Lee Sigelman include National Science Foundation & Texas Tech University.
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Papers
The Effects of Negative Political Campaigns: A Meta‐Analytic Reassessment
TL;DR: This paper found no reliable evidence that negative political campaigning depresses voter turnout, though it does slightly lower feelings of political efficacy, trust in government, and possibly overall public mood, and found that negative campaigning is an effective means of winning votes, even though it tends to be more memorable and stimulate knowledge about the campaign.
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Black Candidates, White Voters: Understanding Racial Bias in Political Perceptions
TL;DR: This paper found that white voters were no more or less likely to vote for black or Hispanic candidates than for Anglo candidates, possibly because the advantages of being perceived as compassionate were offset by the disadvantages of being stereotyped as unable to manage major policy issues.
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Black Americans' Views of Racial Inequality: The Dream Deferred
Lee Sigelman,Susan Welch +1 more
- 22 Feb 1991
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the sources of black Americans' perceptions of racial inequality and their views of remedies for racial inequality, focusing on the following: 1. Socioeconomic status and differentiation among black Americans 2.
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Making contact? Black-white social interaction in an urban setting
TL;DR: This paper found that interracial contact is more common than it was during the late 1960s, specially for whites, but still consists primarily of brief, superficial encounters, and that the quantity and quality of contact with blacks are determined primarily by propinquity.
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Avoidance or Engagement? Issue Convergence in U.S. Presidential Campaigns, 1960–2000
Lee Sigelman,Emmett H. Buell +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that a high degree of similarity in the issue emphases of the two sides appears to have been the norm in these campaigns, which suggests the need to rethink some influential empirical, formal, and normative perspectives on campaigns.
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