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Research and development - the key to future profitability
In: Management information 2
Teaching Urban Politics Through Baltimore City Elections
In: APSA 2012 Teaching & Learning Conference Paper
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Shooting it Out with Pistol Pete: Wild West Baltimore Politics
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Education and Attitudes toward Redistribution in the United States
In: British journal of political science, Band 51, Heft 3, S. 1230-1250
ISSN: 1469-2112
AbstractAlthough scholars have studied education's effects on many different outcomes, little attention has been paid to its effects on adults' economic views. This article examines those effects. It presents results based on longitudinal data which suggest that secondary education has a little-appreciated consequence: it makes Americans more opposed to redistribution. Placebo tests and other analyses confirm this finding. Further investigation suggests that these conservative effects of education operate partly by changing the way that self-interest shapes people's ideas about redistribution.
Elite influence on public opinion in an informed electorate
In: American political science review, Band 105, Heft 3, S. 496-515
ISSN: 0003-0554
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Elite Influence on Public Opinion in an Informed Electorate
In: American political science review, Band 105, Heft 3, S. 496-515
ISSN: 1537-5943
An enduring concern about democracies is that citizens conform too readily to the policy views of elites in their own parties, even to the point of ignoring other information about the policies in question. This article presents two experiments that undermine this concern, at least under one important condition. People rarely possess even a modicum of information about policies; but when they do, their attitudes seem to be affected at least as much by that information as by cues from party elites. The experiments also measure the extent to which people think about policy. Contrary to many accounts, they suggest that party cues do not inhibit such thinking. This is not cause for unbridled optimism about citizens' ability to make good decisions, but it is reason to be more sanguine about their ability to use information about policy when they have it.
Elite Influence on Public Opinion in an Informed Electorate
In: American Political Science Review, Band 105, Heft 3, S. 496-515
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Partisan Bias and the Bayesian Ideal in the Study of Public Opinion
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 71, Heft 3, S. 1109-1124
ISSN: 1468-2508
Partisan Bias and the Bayesian Ideal in the Study of Public Opinion
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 71, Heft 3, S. 1109-1124
ISSN: 0022-3816
LETHAL INCOMPETENCE: VOTERS, OFFICIALS, AND SYSTEMS
In: Critical review: an interdisciplinary journal of politics and society, Band 20, Heft 1-2, S. 1-24
ISSN: 0891-3811
Rutland Water - Decade of Change: Proceedings of the Conference held in Leicester, U.K., 1-3 April 1981
In: Developments in Hydrobiology 8
Lethal Incompetence: Leaders, Organizations, and the U.S. Response to COVID-19
In: The Forum: a journal of applied research in contemporary politics, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 317-337
ISSN: 1540-8884
The study of voter competence has made significant contributions to our understanding of politics, but at this point there are diminishing returns to the endeavor. Voter competence is unlikely to improve dramatically enough to make much of a difference to our politics. By contrast, the competence of officials can and does vary substantially over short periods of time. To understand variations in government performance, therefore, we would do better to focus on the abilities and performance of officials, not ordinary citizens. We elaborate on this argument, emphasizing the "incompetence multiplier": the way that the properties of hierarchies can amplify the incompetence of those in powerful positions. We illustrate our argument with an extended discussion of the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Response Options and the Measurement of Political Knowledge
In: British journal of political science, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 1418-1427
ISSN: 1469-2112
AbstractBy many measures, the public knows little about politics. But just how little people seem to know depends on the questions that are put to them. In particular, knowledge levels seem higher when people are asked closed- rather than open-ended questions. In turn, differences between estimated knowledge levels are sometimes attributed to fundamental differences between these types of questions. Building on this previous research, the present study uses a pre-registered experiment conducted with a representative national sample to shed new light on the relationship between question form and knowledge measurement. The authors find that inferences about political knowledge depend less on fundamental differences between open- and closed-ended questions than on two little-appreciated aspects of survey design: the number and difficulty of the response options that accompany closed-ended questions. These aspects of survey design have large effects. Scholars who use the same questions with different response options may reach substantively different conclusions about the public's levels of knowledge.
Partisan Bias in Surveys
In: Annual review of political science, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 325-342
ISSN: 1545-1577
If citizens are to hold politicians accountable for their performance, they probably must have some sense of the relevant facts, such as whether the economy is growing. In surveys, Democrats and Republicans often claim to hold different beliefs about these facts, which raises normative concerns. However, it is not clear that their divergent survey responses reflect actual divergence of beliefs. In this review, we conclude that partisan divergence in survey responses is often not due to sincere, considered differences of belief that fall along party lines—but determining what it is due to is difficult. We review the evidence for possible explanations, especially insincere responding and congenial inference. Research in this area is still nascent, and much more will be required before we can speak with precision about the causes of partisan divergence in responses to factual questions.