Platforms, Portfolios, Policy: How Audience Costs Affect Social Welfare Policy in Multiparty Cabinets

Alexiadou, Despina; Hoepfner, Danial

doi:10.1017/psrm.2018.2

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“…Study 1 participants (N = 565) 3 were recruited for this web-based experiment through Qualtrics survey panels, limited to U.S. respondents age 18 or over. Research has shown these panels to be relatively representative of the U.S. population demographically and politically (Boas et al, 2020); however, my analytic sample had a smaller share of White (~65%) and larger share of female (~68%) respondents compared to the 2010 U.S. census (72% and 50.8%, respectively). The modal age category in the sample was 30 to 39 (~43% of sample), and approximately 11% reported working in education (see Table 1).…”

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Experimental Effects of “Achievement Gap” News Reporting on Viewers’ Racial Stereotypes, Inequality Explanations, and Inequality Prioritization

Quinn

2020

Educational Researcher

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The “achievement gap” has long dominated mainstream conversations about race and education. Some scholars warn that the discourse around racial gaps perpetuates stereotypes and promotes the adoption of deficit-based explanations that fail to appreciate the role of structural inequities. I investigate through three randomized experiments. Results indicate that a TV news story about racial achievement gaps (vs. a control or counterstereotypical video) led viewers to express more exaggerated stereotypes of Black Americans as lacking education (Study 1 effect size = .30 SD; Study 2 effect size = .38 SD) and may have increased viewers’ implicit stereotyping of Black students as less competent than White students (Study 1 effect size = .22 SD; Study 2 effect size = .12 SD, ns). The video did not affect viewers’ explicit competence-related racial stereotyping, the explanations they gave for achievement inequalities, or their prioritization of ending achievement inequalities. After 2 weeks, the effect on stereotype exaggeration faded. Future research should probe how we can most productively frame educational inequality by race.

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confidence: 75%

Experimental Effects of “Achievement Gap” News Reporting on Viewers’ Racial Stereotypes, Inequality Explanations, and Inequality Prioritization

Quinn

2020

Educational Researcher

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“…A third research avenue is gauging the effect of shifts in political power on welfare generosity and the nature of policy change (Alexiadou & Hoepfner, 2019; Häusermann et al, 2013). Despite evidence of the marked decline in the importance of traditional left partisanship (Stephens, 2015), several studies suggest that partisanship of the government does still matter (Allan & Scruggs, 2004; Amable et al, 2006; Döring & Schwander, 2015; Korpi & Palme, 2003).…”

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Fifty years of welfare state generosity

Scruggs

Tafoya

2022

Soc Policy Adm

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This article describes an overview of key findings from the Comparative Welfare Entitlements Project (CWEP). CWEP compiles major features of the generosity of unemployment, sickness and public pension programs over the last several decades in 21 countries. Describing and extending earlier work to measure the institutional variation in major social insurance programs over time, we provide previously unpublished methodological details of widely used measures of program generosity; measures which have appeared in over 200 analyses during the last decade and a half. We find a high level of variation in wage replacement and benefit conditionality across programs in most countries; calling into question the notion of an historically stable configurations of characteristics, at least during the last 45 years. For instance, our research shows that several prototypical social democratic welfare states experienced the highest declines in generosity in the last three decades. Furthermore, we also show that, as late as the mid‐1970s, some ‘social democratic’ welfare states still trailed some ‘conservative’ welfare states, including prototypical ones like Germany.

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“…3. A recent study by Alexiadou and Hoepfner (2019) show that audience costs affect policy decisions in multiparty cabinets. 4.…”

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Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies

Bäck

Müller

Angelova

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Comparative Political Studies

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One of the most important decisions coalition partners make when forming a government is the division of ministries. Ministerial portfolios provide the party in charge with considerable informational and agenda-setting advantages, which parties can use to shape policies according to their preferences. Oversight mechanisms in parliaments play a central role in mitigating ministerial policy discretion, allowing coalition partners to control each other even though power has been delegated to individual ministers. However, we know relatively little about how such mechanisms influence the agenda-setting and gatekeeping powers of ministers and how much influence minister parties have on policy output relative to the government as a whole in different institutional settings. We fill this gap by analyzing original data on over 2000 important social and economic policy reform measures adopted in nine Western European countries over 20 years, based on a coding of more than 1200 country reports issued by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). We find that parliaments with strong oversight powers constrain the agenda-setting capacity of minister parties but have limited impact on their gatekeeping capacity. Our findings have important implications for our understanding of policy-making and democratic accountability.

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Platforms, Portfolios, Policy: How Audience Costs Affect Social Welfare Policy in Multiparty Cabinets

Cited by 8 publications

References 66 publications

Experimental Effects of “Achievement Gap” News Reporting on Viewers’ Racial Stereotypes, Inequality Explanations, and Inequality Prioritization

Experimental Effects of “Achievement Gap” News Reporting on Viewers’ Racial Stereotypes, Inequality Explanations, and Inequality Prioritization

Fifty years of welfare state generosity

Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies

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