Public Opinion and Policy Liberalism in the American States

Wright, Gerald C.; Erikson, Robert S.; McIver, John P.

doi:10.2307/2111232

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“…Studies of normative beliefs have similarly found that policy tracks voters' policy preferences. (Wright, Erikson, & McIver, 1987;Page & Shapiro, 1992). It would be quite surprising if other economic beliefs had no political effect, but verifying it requires more research.…”

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confidence: 99%

How do voters form positive economic beliefs? Evidence from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy

Caplan

2006

Public Choice

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Beliefs about normative economics appear to be primarily determined by sociotropic rather than egocentric variables. (Sears & Funk, 1990; Citrin & Green, 1990) Using the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy, the current paper finds that the same holds for positiveeconomic beliefs in most – but not all – cases. This hinges on whether a question is “causal” or “non-causal”: Causal beliefs depend on sociotropic variables, especially education and ideology; non-causal beliefs, in contrast, depend on egocentric variables, with income growth playing the leading role. This is consistent with a cognitive model where actors answer easier questions using personal experience, and harder ones with ``off-the-shelf" theories. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006Economic beliefs, Sociotropic voting, Voter cognition,

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How do voters form positive economic beliefs? Evidence from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy

Caplan

2006

Public Choice

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“…Their results showed generalized political sentencing effects, while earlier research was limited to a focus on political sentencing only for drug cases. Other earlier studies anticipated the results of these political context-oriented sentencing studies by providing indirect support for political environment effects on legal decision making (Cook, 1977;Kritzer, 1979;Waltman & Bowers, 1993;Wright, Erickson, & McIver, 1987).…”

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Modeling the politics of punishment: A conceptual and empirical analysis of ‘law in action’ in criminal sentencing

Helms

2009

Journal of Criminal Justice

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“…The senator's ideological positions are sufficiently captured by these key roll call votes. 5 To measure state ideology, I have used and updated State Citizen Ideology constructed by Robert Erikson, Gerald Wright, and John McIver (Wright, Erikson, and McIver 1987;Erikson, Wright, and McIver 1993;Erikson, Wright, and McIver 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Senator�s Strategic Use of Time in Representation

Choi¹

2017

JPPG

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Abstract:Remaining time to reelection serves as a constraint and an opportunity for senators to adapt constituency preferences for their legislative decision making. The relatively long length of terms may allow senators to change their ideological positions over the course of their terms. Given long terms of six-years, senators may be able to seek first to vote in favor of party discipline and personal policy motivation and then to take a strategy to keep step with constituency preferences as their reelections approach. This study finds that the long length of the term serves as an opportunity for senators to seek to achieve their preferred policy and maximize the chances of reelection.

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Public Opinion and Policy Liberalism in the American States

Cited by 173 publications

References 27 publications

How do voters form positive economic beliefs? Evidence from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy

How do voters form positive economic beliefs? Evidence from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy

Modeling the politics of punishment: A conceptual and empirical analysis of ‘law in action’ in criminal sentencing

The Senator�s Strategic Use of Time in Representation

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