Institutional Context and the Assignment of Political Responsibility
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 65, Heft 1, S. 190-215
ISSN: 0022-3816
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 65, Heft 1, S. 190-215
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: Legislative studies quarterly, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 577-599
ISSN: 1939-9162
Abstract Models of congressional approval have, in both theory and specification, often imitated models of presidential approval. Through their modeling decisions, researchers have implicitly assumed that the economic determinants of presidential and congressional approval are identical. Such assumptions have discouraged other researchers from testing competing hypotheses about the economic determinants of congressional approval. Using aggregate‐level time‐series analysis, this study investigates the question of whether or not the economic determinants of approval vary by the target of political judgment. I find that presidential approval is driven largely by sociotropic prospections, a result consistent with previous research. In contrast, I find the public relies most heavily upon egocentric retrospections when judging the U.S. Congress.
In: Legislative studies quarterly, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 577-600
ISSN: 0362-9805
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 195-206
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 195
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 195-206
ISSN: 0022-3816
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 73, Heft 3, S. 808-820
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
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Working paper
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 72, Heft 1, S. 74-89
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: Political behavior, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 331-351
ISSN: 1573-6687
Using a pair of national surveys, this article analyzes the individual-level sources of public support for Social Security privatization. Given the inherent risks associated with privatization, we argue that the political trust heuristic affords untapped theoretical leverage in explaining public attitudes toward privatization. We find that, among certain individuals, political trust plays an instrumental role in structuring privatization preferences. Political trust increases support for privatization, but only among liberals. This heterogeneity in trust's impact is best explained, we argue, by the unbalanced ideological costs imposed by the potential privatization of Social Security. Among liberals, embracing privatization requires the sacrifice of core values, thereby making political trust a potent consideration. Political trust is inconsequential among conservatives because supporting privatization requires no comparable sacrifice for them. Adapted from the source document.
In: Political behavior, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 331-352
ISSN: 0190-9320
In: Political behavior, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 331-351
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Band 28, Heft 5, S. 563-585
ISSN: 1467-9221
This paper analyzes the sources of ambivalence toward political parties and candidates. We propose and test an information‐processing theory of ambivalence in which systematic processing is hypothesized to heighten partisan and candidate ambivalence. We show that ambivalence is linked to several dispositional sources of systematic processing, including individuals' information, motivation, and cognitive style. Specifically, we find that ambivalence tends to be greater among the well informed and those who are high in need for cognition while it tends to be lower among those motivated by directional goals. Collectively, our results suggest that levels of partisan and candidate ambivalence are greatest among those most likely to engage in effortful processing of information and that these effects are independent of value conflict. The results further suggest that the effects of effortful processing on ambivalence are moderated by attitude commitment.
In: American journal of political science, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 660-671
ISSN: 1540-5907
This article analyzes the relationship between political trust, ideology, and public support for government spending. We argue that the political trust heuristic is activated when individuals are asked to sacrifice ideological as well as material interests. Aggregate‐ and individual‐level analysis shows that the effects of political trust on support for government spending are moderated by ideology. Consistent with the unbalanced ideological costs imposed by requests for increased government spending, we find that the effects of political trust are significantly more pronounced among conservatives than among liberals. The analysis further demonstrates that ideology conditions the effects of political trust on attitudes toward both distributive and redistributive spending. Our findings suggest that political trust has policy consequences across a much broader range of policy issues than previously thought.