The Political Economy: Political Attitudes and Economic Behavior

Key, Ellen M.; Donovan, Kathleen

doi:10.1007/s11109-016-9378-0

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“…Moreover, the "Michigan model" states that psychological attachment raises a perceptual screen such that individuals tend to see what is favorable to their political bias (Campbell 1960). In line with this thesis, other studies confirm that political beliefs affect everything from consumption and investment behavior (Key and Donovan 2017;Hong and Kostovetsky 2012;Kaustia and Torstila 2010) to how we selects our spouses (Iyengar et al 2018). These findings raise some doubts about treating humans as primarily economic voters (Evans and Andersen 2006;Ramirez and Erickson 2013).…”

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“…A growing body of research argues that economic outcomes could themselves be functions of political beliefs. For instance, studies show that citizens engage in different types of consumption and investment patterns, or interpret changes in the economic context differently, depending on their political identity (Evans and Andersen 2006;Ramirez and Erickson 2013;Key and Donovan 2017;Hong and Kostovetsky 2012;Kaustia and Torstila 2010). While there is an emerging literature that attempts to circumvent these issues with quasi-experimental designs, such as analyzing large lottery winnings (Doherty et al 2006;Peterson 2016;Powdthavee and Andrew 2014), these types of wealth shocks are exceedingly rare and often disproportionally large, and therefore likely of little practical importance to policy.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Uncovering the Source of Patrimonial Voting: Evidence from Swedish Twin Pairs

Ahlskog

Brännlund

2021

Polit Behav

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The boom in wealth inequality seen in recent decades has generated a steep rise in scholarly interest in both the drivers and the consequences of the wealth gap. In political science, a pertinent question regards the political behavior across the wealth spectrum. A common argument is that the wealthy practice patrimonial voting, i.e. voting for right-wing parties to maximize returns on their assets. While this pattern is descriptively well documented, it is less certain to what extent this reflects an actual causal relationship between wealth and political preferences. In this study, we provide new evidence by exploiting wealth variation within identical twin pairs. Our findings suggest that while more wealth is descriptively connected to more support for right-wing parties, the causal impact of wealth on policy preferences is likely highly overstated. For several relevant policy areas these effects may not exist at all. Furthermore, the bias in naive observational estimates seems to be mainly driven by environmental familial confounders shared within twin pairs, rather than genetic confounding.

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Uncovering the Source of Patrimonial Voting: Evidence from Swedish Twin Pairs

Ahlskog

Brännlund

2021

Polit Behav

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“…After Democrats took control of both Houses of Congress, Democratic (Republican) respondents reported greater optimism (pessimism) about the economy as a whole and about their personal finances. This result indicated that partisanship and partisan control of government had some causal impact on economic views, though it is unclear precisely which mechanism mediates that effect ( compare Gerber & Huber, 2009, 2010; Key & Donovan 2016 with Anson, 2017; McGrath, 2017; Prior et al, 2015; Bullock et al, 2015).…”

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Cognitive Political Economy: A Growing Partisan Divide in Economic Perceptions

Brady

Ferejohn

Parker

2021

American Politics Research

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Research suggests that American partisans are increasingly distinct in their beliefs. These strengthened partisan feelings extend to economic perceptions—as numerous scholars have shown, there is a substantial gap between the proportion of Democrats and the proportion of Republicans that believe the economy is improving. Here, we examine the extent to which these perceptions have polarized over the past two decades and the degree to which they still respond to objective economic indicators. Exploiting a Gallup time-series, we show that the gap in economic perceptions approximately doubled between 1999 and 2020, and that partisan economic perceptions no longer seem to converge during economic crises. We further demonstrate that the economic perceptions of Democrats and Republicans have polarized relative to Independents and that this polarization is not asymmetric in magnitude. Collectively, these results document the extraordinary rise of perceptual polarization and illustrate that neither Democrats nor Republicans are immune to its effects.

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“…The proper implementation of CITES calls for parties to establish monitoring and enforcement capacity as well as prohibition and punishment measures [3], yet countries are frequently faced with changing political environments in striving to comply with supranational laws [12]. For instance, some interest groups can make compliance difficult in order to foster their own economic advantages [13], and some exemptions within the law can complicate enforcement [2]. At the global and national levels, sunshine and carrot and stick instruments are used to encourage compliance via making information widely available, even when limited [14] and using both positive and negative incentive structures [5].…”

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An Assessment of the Implementation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in Kenya

Kilonzo,

Heinen,

Byakagaba

2024

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International trade is hastening extinction for many species of plants and animals despite the fact that many countries have ratified CITES. The adoption of treaties is often symbolic as many countries, especially in the developing world where most biodiversity is found, experience a lack of fit between international agreements and national laws and institutions. Our main objective here is to assess the extent of jurisdictional and institutional fit in the implementation of CITES in Kenya, an important issue given the amount of international trade in wild products and the importance of wildlife tourism to the country. The specific objectives are to assess the following: the capacity and level of coordination among state actors and conservation mandates in national policy and law using a mixed methods approach involving a literature review and 38 key informant surveys representing professional expertise from various stakeholder groups. We found that over 60% of respondents indicated only moderate capacity for the implementation of CITES and coordination between local and central governments. Some participants indicated that judicial officers lack adequate conservation knowledge, thus hampering enforcement via low prosecution rates. A moderate (at best) structural fit involving inefficiencies such as conflicting processes, unequal enforcement, and suboptimal coordination implies a degree of failure in developing the implementation capacity of CITES within Kenya. Our results also show a mismatch between agency staffing and workload at several levels of government, and we make suggestions for improvement.

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Cited by 7 publications

References 57 publications

Uncovering the Source of Patrimonial Voting: Evidence from Swedish Twin Pairs

Uncovering the Source of Patrimonial Voting: Evidence from Swedish Twin Pairs

Cognitive Political Economy: A Growing Partisan Divide in Economic Perceptions

An Assessment of the Implementation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in Kenya

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