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“…However, its coefficient can be interpreted as party alignment as well as leftist government. 18 Studies of legislatures have established that male and female legislators express different policy priorities and champion different issues, a finding that has been generalized beyond US state legislatures (Reingold 2000;Saint-Germain 1989) to Latin American legislatures (Jones 1997;Schwindt-Bayer 2006;Taylor-Robinson and Heath 2003). Moreover, Anzia and Berry (2011) suggest that women are better politicians because they must perform higher in order to be seen as equals.…”

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Government Performance and Chief Executives’ Intangible Assets: Motives, Networking, and/or Capacity?

Avellaneda

2015

Public Management Review

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This study explores the impact of chief executives' intangible assets -motives, capacity and networks -on government performance. Three main hypotheses suggesting a direct relationship between these assets and performance are tested using data from municipalities in El Salvador, where the chief executive is the elected mayor. The research involved an in-field survey of 135 Salvadorian mayors (out of 262) and data collected from national agencies, focusing on two dimensions of municipal performance: service delivery (electricity and running water) and expansion of revenue (with national grants). After controlling for municipal and constituent-level factors, findings indicate that the chief executive's capacity (specifically mayoral expertise) is positively correlated to municipal delivery of electricity and running water; intrinsic motivation is linked to expansion of water services; and municipalities whose chief executives are nationally networked tend to receive more grant monies. This study contributes to the literature on government performance by assessing the role of chief executives' intangible assets in the developing context of a relatively newly established democracy in Latin America.Public Management Review, 2015 http://dx.

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Section: Discussion Limitations and Conclusionmentioning

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Government Performance and Chief Executives’ Intangible Assets: Motives, Networking, and/or Capacity?

Avellaneda

2015

Public Management Review

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“…Attitude importance in turn is related to attitude extremity (Boninger et al 2009). On the other hand, this subgroup of people might experience attitude changes because they engage in some form of motivated reasoning (Taber and Lodge 2006). When confronted with new information (here rather experiences) people tend to incorporate information that is in line with their prior value orientations and other predispositions in their belief system as support for these predispositions and thereby strengthen these prior value orientations even more.…”

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Going beyond values versus self-interest: whose attitudes change after employment transitions?

Wehl

2020

Political Research Exchange

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Are self-interest or presumably stable value orientations and other predispositions the main drivers behind social policy attitudes? This article contributes to this debate by moving away from its binary discussion. It differentiates between attitude changes driven by self-interest that are in line with pre-existing predispositions and those that are not. Empirically, this article focuses on changes of labour market policy attitudes after employment transitions and job insecurity changes. More precisely, this article differentiates between attitude changes within three subgroups. (A) People whose self-interest after the employment transitions reinforces their prior predispositions. (B) People without strong prior predispositions, who are thus unconstrained by them. And (C) people whose self-interest after the employment transitions contradicts their prior predispositions. Panel analyses with fixed effects use German SOEP waves from 1997 and 2002. Main effects suggest an important role for selfinterest as they show significant attitudinal reactions after most of the transitions and perception changes. However, subgroup analyses result in a somewhat mixed picture. They show attitude changes within different subgroups after different transitions and perception changes. This mixed empirical picture suggests caution when interpreting attitudinal change or stability after changing material circumstances as a sign for the relative importance of self-interest or predispositions.

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“…For example, women's speaking style is often more polite (Mills, 2003) and personal (Wood, 2009) than men's. Because the views of those with politically committed views are more fully formed (McClurg, 2006), they may be more likely to use abstract reasoning than personal ideas, narratives, or stories. And because citizens who feel a greater sense of self-efficacy have less reason to be angry with the political system, they may use less emotional tones in their letters.…”

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“Since this is the editorial section I intend to express my opinion”: Inequality and expressivity in letters to the editor

Perrin

2016

The Communication Review

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This paper analyzes the argumentative style and the characteristics of writers of newspaper letters to the editor. Writers are more likely to be White, male, older, more politically active, and less likely to be politically moderate than the local population. Inequality in political participation persists in this forum. Gender and sense of local political efficacy influence how letter writers make their points. Letters to the editor mostly display inequalities similar to other forms of political participation.

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Cited by 70 publications

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Government Performance and Chief Executives’ Intangible Assets: Motives, Networking, and/or Capacity?

Government Performance and Chief Executives’ Intangible Assets: Motives, Networking, and/or Capacity?

Going beyond values versus self-interest: whose attitudes change after employment transitions?

“Since this is the editorial section I intend to express my opinion”: Inequality and expressivity in letters to the editor

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