✦ LIBER ✦
Elite versus citizen attitudes on capital punishment: Incongruity between the public and policymakers
✍ Scribed by John T Whitehead; Michael B Blankenship; John Paul Wright
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 46 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0047-2352
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✦ Synopsis
The results of a survey of Tennessee legislators, prosecutors, and public defenders were compared to the results of a general citizen survey to analyze attitudes toward capital punishment in the two groups. The study is a replication of McGarrell and Sandys's study of Indiana legislators, which found some degree of pluralistic ignorance: both legislators and citizens had misperceptions of the other's attitudes. Results suggested that, similar to their Indiana counterparts, Tennessee legislators overestimate the degree of citizen support for the death penalty.