Koliev Faradj, Page Douglas, Tallberg Jonas
Faradj Koliev is a researcher in the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Douglas Page is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, USA.
Public Opin Q. 2022 Aug 12;86(3):748-761. doi: 10.1093/poq/nfac026. eCollection 2022 Fall.
Do international shaming efforts affect citizens' support for government policies? While it is a frequent claim in the literature that shaming works through domestic politics, we know little about how and when international criticism affects domestic public opinion. We address this question through an originally designed survey experiment in Sweden, which (i) compares the effects of international shaming in two issue areas-human rights and climate change, and (ii) tests whether government responses to criticism moderate the impact of shaming. Our main findings are fourfold. First, we find substantial effects of international shaming on domestic public opinion. These effects hold across both issue areas and irrespective of whether citizens support government parties or not. Second, human rights shaming has a stronger impact on citizens' support for government policies than climate shaming. Third, shaming is most effective among citizens who are more supportive of climate action, human rights, and international cooperation. Finally, our findings are mixed with respect to the effect of government responses. While government responses do not moderate the effects of human rights shaming, they seem to mitigate the effects of climate shaming.
国际羞辱行动会影响公民对政府政策的支持吗？虽然文献中经常声称羞辱是通过国内政治起作用的，但我们对国际批评如何以及何时影响国内公众舆论知之甚少。我们通过在瑞典进行的一项原创性调查实验来解决这个问题，该实验（i）比较了在人权和气候变化这两个议题领域国际羞辱的效果，以及（ii）测试政府对批评的回应是否会缓和羞辱的影响。我们的主要发现有四点。第一，我们发现国际羞辱对国内公众舆论有重大影响。这些影响在两个议题领域都存在，且不论公民是否支持政府政党。第二，人权羞辱对公民对政府政策的支持的影响比气候羞辱更强。第三，羞辱在那些更支持气候行动、人权和国际合作的公民中最有效。最后，关于政府回应的效果，我们的发现喜忧参半。虽然政府回应并没有缓和人权羞辱的影响，但它们似乎减轻了气候羞辱的影响。
