The Moderating Effect of Prior Attitudes on Framing Effects and Their Combined Contribution to the Public Politicization of EU Immigration Policy

摘要: This study investigates the effects of news frames on public politicization (i.e., salience and polarization) moderating role prior attitudes this relationship. An experiment was set-up among a representative sample Dutch population between June July 2011. The results yield no significant direct framing effects, only when are taken into account become visible. Bigger incongruence tone message individual causes decrease in issue initially negative an increase positive through mechanism risk perception. Incongruence also yields change line with negative, insignificant changes positive. As largely depend upon attitudes, can either add or reduce dependent composition population.