Personality Traits and Approaches to Political Representation and Responsiveness: An Experiment in Local Government

Dynes, Adam M.; Hassell, Hans J. G.; Miles, Matthew R.

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“…Guidelines usually assigned the ethics review only to the RECs and some mentioned a potential exemption to their assessment may when a study is approved by law. An example was a correspondence study on elected officials, which was exempt from IRB review in the United States by the federal research ethics guidelines (Dynes, Hassell, and Miles 2022).…”

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Assessing the acceptability of individual studies that use deception: A systematic review of normative guidance documents

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Krawczyk

Baeyens

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Assessing the acceptability of individual studies that use deception: A systematic review of normative guidance documents

Verbeke

Krawczyk

Baeyens

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“…2023). Personality and political ambition play a role (Dynes et al, 2021(Dynes et al, , 2023, conscientious individuals tend to favor burdens while those who are more open to experience are less so (Aarøe et al, 2021). Discrimination may also be an additional factor in whether increased burdens are imposed.…”

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The Burden of Bad Intentions: Analyzing Politicized Administrative Burdens

Newswander,

Miles,

Newswander

2024

The American Review of Public Administration

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Using a survey of nearly 2,000 federal government employees, we test the extent to which civil servants are willing to use their position to impose administrative burdens on political opponents. Such an act would create a burden of bad intentions. Rather than discovering that administrators are partisan actors through their use of burdens, we find that federal public employees support administrative burdens when they reduce fraud and waste. Furthermore, these civil servants are also not politically motivated. More precisely, federal government employees do not support administrative burdens that will give unequal benefits to members of their own political party or that will create uneven challenges for members of the opposition. Therefore, we theorize that administrators’ decisions relating to burden are motivated by a general concern for efficiency and ethics, even as decisions related to compliance and discretion may be divided into partisan lines.

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“…Recent studies suggest that Canadian and American local politicians resemble their state/provincial and federal counterparts in policy responsiveness and political representation (Lucas and Armstrong II, 2021;Schaffner, Rhodes and La Raja, 2020;Tausanovitch and Warshaw, 2014), particularly amidst increasingly partisan and "nationalized" policy debates in the United States (Hopkins, 2018b;Lee, Landgrave and Bansak, 2022). More generally, many political scientists are increasingly relying on samples of local politicians to understand core features of elite political behavior (Butler et al, 2017;Butler and Hassell, 2018;Dynes, Hassell and Miles, 2022;Lee, 2021;Lee et al, 2021;Öhberg and Naurin, 2016;Richardson and John, 2012;Sheffer, 2019;Pereira, 2021;Soontjens and Walgrave, 2021), as well as politicians' theoretical beliefs about deliberative and representative democracy (Heinelt, 2013;Heineilt and Egner, 2022;Vetter, Heinelt and Rose, 2018).…”

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Are politicians democratic realists?

LUCAS,

SHEFFER,

LOEWEN

2024

European J Political Res

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Political scientists have long debated whether citizens meet the expectations of a ‘folk theory’ of democratic representation, in which voters correctly reward and punish politicians for their actions, make choices primarily on the basis of policy preferences and orient their decisions to the future rather than the past. But how do elected politicians themselves theorize voting behaviour? In this paper, we report results from an original survey of more than 2000 elected local politicians in Canada and the United States which allows us to characterize politicians' own democratic theories. We uncover substantial variation in politicians' theories of democracy, and we find examples of a number of well‐known theoretical traditions (democratic realism, partisan retrospection, folk theory) among politicians themselves. We also show that politicians' theoretical perspectives are related to how they undertake representation when in office. We conclude with an outline of a comparative research agenda on the causes and consequences of politicians' democratic theories.

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Personality Traits and Approaches to Political Representation and Responsiveness: An Experiment in Local Government

Cited by 6 publications

References 51 publications

Assessing the acceptability of individual studies that use deception: A systematic review of normative guidance documents

Assessing the acceptability of individual studies that use deception: A systematic review of normative guidance documents

The Burden of Bad Intentions: Analyzing Politicized Administrative Burdens

Are politicians democratic realists?

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