Bringing the President Back In

Holbrook, Thomas M.; Clouse, Clayton; Weinschenk, Aaron C.

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“…However, they also extend the conditions under which social policy expansion may appear permissible to citizens. While previous work largely focuses on the effect of fiscal crises on public attitudes (Holbrook et al, 2012;Margalit, 2013), our findings address the effect of crises with non-economic origins.…”

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“…There is a well-established literature on the effects of fiscal crises across western liberal markets (Holbrook et al. , 2012; Margalit, 2013).…”

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“…There is a well-established literature on the effects of fiscal crises across western liberal markets (Holbrook et al, 2012;Margalit, 2013). Interestingly, there is markedly less research about how western liberal market governments respond to crises with non-economic origins that have deep economic effects.…”

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Crisis management: personal financial well-being and public attitudes toward government intervention

Lawlor

Girard

Wodnicki

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IJSSP

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PurposeCrises precipitate strong fiscal responses by government – sometimes toward austerity, other times toward renewed social spending. This variation in approaches to crisis handling has the potential to highlight factors that drive public opinion toward government interventions that may be quite different from those in non-crisis times. This study aims to discuss the aforementioned issues.Design/methodology/approachThis article brings together theories of government policymaking in crises, policy responsiveness and economic voting to assess how personal financial (egocentric) concerns and/or national financial (sociotropic) concerns may influence opinions toward government handling of direct financial supports in a crisis and, more generally, opinions toward social policy interventions. The authors assess this dynamic in the Canadian context using original national survey data collected in the initial stage of the pandemic-based crisis in June and July of 2020 (N = 1290).FindingsThe authors find strong evidence in support of sociotropic concerns shaping government approval and support for greater social policy interventions, but limited evidence to support egocentric concerns, suggesting that social policy attitudes may be more insulated from personal factors than anticipated.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors’ findings suggest that crises may prompt enhanced support for interventionist social policy measures that may lack broad-based support in non-crisis times.Originality/valueThe authors’ findings speak to the ongoing discussion around the possibility for crises to function as policy windows for enhanced social spending and for entrenching targeted financial supports for vulnerable individuals.

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“…There is a well-established literature on the effects of fiscal crises across western liberal markets (Holbrook et al. , 2012; Margalit, 2013).…”

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Wodnicki

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“…A central tenet in the U.S. voting literature is that elections are retrospective (Key, 1966), and there is considerable evidence that voters hold incumbent officeholders accountable for bad outcomes, particularly for poor economic performance (e.g., Alvarez & Nagler, 1995, 1998; Fair, 1978; Fiorina, 1978, 1981; Hibbing & Alford, 1981; Holbrook, Clouse, & Weinschenk, 2011; Kiewiet, 1983; Kramer, 1971; Lewis-Beck & Stegmaier, 2007; Tufte, 1975). Retrospective voting in the United States, however, is complicated by the fact that, in many elections, voters are asked to cast a ballot in multiple contests at different levels of government.…”

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Penalizing the Party

Konisky

Richardson

2012

American Politics Research

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Many political pundits characterized the 2010 election as a referendum on President Obama’s health care reform law. The political science literature on issue voting, however, does not consistently demonstrate that these types of policy evaluations are central to citizens’ vote choices. Moreover, existing theories suggest different predictions about how the health care reform issue would affect elections across different levels of government. Studying data from the 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), the analysis indicates that those opposed to health care reform were less likely to vote for Democratic candidates in the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate, state gubernatorial, and state attorneys general contests, controlling for partisan affiliation, political ideology, perceptions of the economy, and evaluations of other salient policy issues. These findings suggest that, across the board, Democrats were penalized for their support of health care reform, and more generally provide evidence of the role of noneconomic issue voting in U.S. elections.

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Bailout or bust? Government evaluations in the wake of a bailout

Larsen

Klemmensen

Klitgaard

2019

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Governments are often punished for negative events such as economic downturns and financial shocks. However, governments can address such shocks with salient policy responses that might mitigate public punishment. We use three high-quality nationally representative surveys collected around a key event in the history of the Dutch economy, namely the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, to examine how voters responded to a salient government bailout. The results illustrate that governments can get substantial credit for pursuing a bailout in the midst of a financial crisis. Future research should take salient policy responses into account to fully understand the public response to the outbreak of financial and economic crises.

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Bringing the President Back In

Cited by 9 publications

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Crisis management: personal financial well-being and public attitudes toward government intervention

Crisis management: personal financial well-being and public attitudes toward government intervention

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Bailout or bust? Government evaluations in the wake of a bailout

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