Technocratic attitudes and voting behaviour ten years after the Eurozone crisis: Evidence from the 2019 EP elections

Heyne, Lea; Lobo, Marina Costa

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102288

Cited by 9 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 36 publications

(74 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Individuals not only tend to prefer experts when confronted with real‐politics situations and net choices, they also discern between different types of preferred experts depending on the features of the situation they face. Given the electoral correlates of technocratic attitudes (Heyne & Costa Lobo, 2021 ) this consistency further increases their relevance.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Individuals showing technocratic attitudes display favourable orientations towards giving expertise and experts (individuals with superior education qualifications and sector expertise) a greater political role; elitist orientations, that is distrust towards people's political capacity and knowledge; and low trust in parties and elected politicians. Studies show that sizable sections of Western publics display technocratic attitudes (Bertsou & Pastorella, 2017; Bertsou, 2021; Bertsou & Caramani, 2020b; Heyne & Costa Lobo, 2021).…”

Section: Technocratic Attitudes Their Stability and The Preference Fo...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The framing manipulation evaluates whether such preferences are malleable depending on which dimension of the crisis is emphasized: public health or economic activity. Public preferences on the role of Mando Único , that is the Chief Officer in charge of leading the response to the coronavirus, are relevant because they likely affect citizens’ government evaluation and have electoral consequences (Heyne & Costa Lobo, 2021 ) given the prominence of the management of the pandemic crisis in the political debate.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts

Lavezzolo

Ramiro

Fernández-Vázquez

2021

European J Political Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Western publics show a sizable support for experts’ involvement in political decision making, that is, technocratic attitudes. This article analyzes two key aspects of these attitudes: technocratic attitudes’ stability and the heterogeneity in the demand for experts depending on the context. We first analyze how technocratic attitudes have been affected by an external event, the COVID‐19 pandemic, that has placed experts’ role at the forefront of the public debate; this allows us to analyze the stability or change in these attitudes. Second, given that the pandemic quickly evolved from being a public health issue to becoming a political issue combining economic and public health dimensions, we examine whether framing the COVID‐19 pandemic exclusively as a public health problem or as including a prominent economic dimension as well affects the type of public officials who are preferred to lead the political management of the crisis (independent experts with diverse professional skills or party politicians belonging to different parties and with a specialization in different policy fields). We pursue these two research goals through a panel survey conducted in Spain at two different time points, one before and another during the pandemic, in which we measure technocratic attitudes using an exhaustive battery; and through a survey experiment combining a conjoint design and a framing experiment. Results show that, first, technocratic attitudes have significantly increased as a consequence of the coronavirus outbreak; second, people's preference for experts prevails against any other experimental treatment such as party affiliation; and, finally, preferences for the type of experts vary depending on the problem to be solved. In this way, this paper significantly increases our knowledge of the factors that affect variation in public attitudes towards experts’ involvement in political decision‐making.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Technocratic Attitudes Their Stability and The Preference Fo...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts

Lavezzolo

Ramiro

Fernández-Vázquez

2021

European J Political Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Samalla poliittinen vastuu hämärtyy (Caramani 2017). Myös äänestäjien mieltymyksissä populismin ja tekno kratian kannatus näyttävät liittyvän toisiinsa (Bertsou ja Caramani 2022;Heyne ja Costa Lobo 2021).…”

Section: Johdantounclassified

Tuhansien toimenpiteiden Suomi

Mykkänen,

Wass

2023

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Katsausartikkeli analysoi kokoomuksen puheenjohtaja Petteri Orpon luotsaamia hallitusneuvotteluita ja niiden tuloksena syntynyttä hallitusohjelmaa teknokraattisen asiantuntijatiedon käytön näkökulmasta. Kysymystä lähestytään käyttämällä teknopolitiikan käsitettä, joka viittaa poliittisten päämäärien ja runsaan asiantuntijatiedon yhdistämiseen. Tuloksista nousee esiin vahva yhteys neuvottelupöydissä tehtyjen toimenpidekirjausten ja asiantuntijakuulemisten välillä. Havaintoa voidaan selittää usealla eri tavalla, mutta katsauksen tulkinta korostaa hallitusneuvottelujen poliittisen asetelman merkitystä enemmän kuin asiantuntijoiden itsensä pyrkimystä vallankäyttöön. Oikeistopopulistisen puolueen mukanaolo neuvotteluissa saattoi myös osaltaan lisätä asiantuntijatiedon käyttöä. Sama vaikutus oli kokoomuksen pyrkimyksellä rakentaa hyvin yksityiskohtainen ohjelma, jota oli mahdollista ryhtyä nopeasti toteuttamaan.

show abstract

Social Representations of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Among Nurses in Portugal

et al. 2023

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Introduction A number of studies in different countries have highlighted discrimination of sexual and gender minorities in healthcare environments. Although Portugal has made considerable progress in the acquisition of rights for LGBT people, there are still gaps in the training of health professionals. Among these, nurses are at the forefront of many of the close interactions with patients. This article aims to ascertain the social representations of sexual orientation and gender identity among nurses in Portugal from a sociological perspective. Methods A quantitative survey of Portuguese nurses was conducted in an online questionnaire. The data were collected between May and July 2020, and the participants were recruited through the Portuguese Nurses Association. The universe of the study consisted of 75,928 nurses, from which a sample of 899 was obtained. Results The results showed that Portuguese nurses tended to have a positive social attitude towards non-normative sexual orientations and gender identities, which they perceived as a natural expression of human diversity. This attitude was stronger among the younger, politically left-leaning participants without a religion, and close to LGBT people. The vast majority recognized that they lacked adequate training in LGBT issues and a significant part expressed the need to bridge that gap, mainly with regard to gender identity. Conclusions and Policy Implications This study provides insights into the insufficient inclusion of LGBT matters in nursing courses, and the need for ongoing, and specialized training. Knowledge and cultural competencies in the care of LGBT people should be guaranteed and made universal for nursing and other health professionals in order to reverse the reduction in their access to healthcare and ensure respect for the human right to health for LGBT people.

show abstract

Technocratic attitudes and voting behaviour ten years after the Eurozone crisis: Evidence from the 2019 EP elections

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts

Technocratic attitudes in COVID‐19 times: Change and preference over types of experts

Tuhansien toimenpiteiden Suomi

Social Representations of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Among Nurses in Portugal

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About