2024/11/29 by Merlin Schaeffer, Krzysztof Krakowski, Asmus Leth Olsen · 1 voice · 4 citations
Engineering · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Engineering #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research #Political science #Psychology #Racial and Ethnic Identity Research #Raising (metalworking) #Social psychology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/ajps.12933
published in American Journal of Political Science 70(1), 54-75 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2024/11/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Abstract The disadvantages experienced by minorities and lack of societal remedies are partly attributable to native‐majority citizens’ limited awareness of minority hardships. We investigate whether informing citizens about field‐experimental audits on ethno‐racial discrimination increases their recognition of the issue and support for equal‐treatment policies. Extending a largely US‐centric research frontier, we focus on beliefs about discrimination faced by Muslims in Denmark. To further comprehension, we test three types of framing: a scientist stressing credibility, a lawyer emphasizing the legal breach, or a minority expressing grief. Our survey experiment ( n = 4,800) shows that citizens are generally aware of discrimination and tend to overperceive its extent. Communicating audit evidence corrects misperceptions but does not change recognition or policy support, regardless of framing or initial misperception. Only combining priming, correction, and framing temporarily increases recognition and donations to support groups. These findings suggest that audit‐based awareness campaigns have limited immediate success beyond donations acknowledging minority hardships.