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Misperceptions and Minipublics: Does Endorsement of Expert Information....
No full textThis repository includes the data and statistical code necessary to replicate all analyses reported in:
Lala Muradova, Eileen Culloty and Jane Suiter. 2023. "Misperceptions and Minipublics....
Replication Data for: Accummulated Losses
No full textThese are the replication materials for "Accummulated Losses on Legitimacy Perceptions
Replication Materials: Reflective political reasoning: political disagreement and empathy
No full textAs political polarization increases across many of the world's established democracies, many citizens are unwilling to appreciate and consider the viewpoints of those who disagree with them. Previous research shows that this lack of reflection can undermine democratic accountability. The purpose of this paper is to study whether empathy for the other can motivate people to reason reflectively about politics. Extant studies have largely studied trait-level differences in the ability and inclination of individuals to engage in reflection. Most of these studies focus on observational moderators, which makes it difficult to make strong claims about the effects of being in a reflective state on political decision making. We extend this research by using a survey experiment with a large and heterogeneous sample of UK citizens (N = 2014) to investigate whether a simple empathy intervention can induce people to consider opposing viewpoints and incorporate those views in their opinion about a pressing political issue. We find that actively imagining the feelings and thoughts of someone one disagrees with prompts more reflection in the way that people reason about political issues as well as elicits empathic feelings of concern toward those with opposing viewpoints. We further examine whether empathy facilitates openness to attitude change in the counter-attitudinal direction and find that exposure to an opposing perspective (without its empathy component) per se is enough to prompt attitude change. Our study paints a more nuanced picture of the relationship between empathy, reflection and policy attitudes
Empathy and political reasoning: how empathy promotes reflection and strengthens democracy
No full textHow do individuals make up their mind about politics? This question has sparked a vigorous debate in the study of political behavior for the last few decades. Some scholars contend that citizens can and should engage in political reflection, while others highlight biases in human political reasoning that make reflection impossible. This Element is about the conditions under which citizens can be motivated to transcend their egocentric biases and engage in reflection. Rather than asking whether citizens are capable of reflection, it shifts focus to a more productive question: how to motivate reflection. Firstly, it argues that (situational) empathy for the other side can inspire citizens to think reflectively about politics. Secondly, the Element proposes that deliberative institutions have the potential to evoke empathy for the other side in individuals. Thirdly, it draws on experimental and qualitative data from Belgium, Chile, Ireland, and the UK to test the theoretical expectations
Seeing the Other Side? Perspective-Taking and Reflective Political Judgements in Interpersonal Deliberation: Evidence from the Irish Citizens’ Assembly
Full text linksponsorship: The author disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no 759736) as well as Research Foundation - Flanders (Belgium) (FWO) under the grant no G075615 N. (European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme|759736, Research Foundation - Flanders (Belgium) (FWO)|G075615 N)status: Published onlin
Bearing the burden of peace: Intergroup attribution bias and public support for peace provisions
No full textWhat drives public support for peace provisions? Based on intergroup attribution theory, we argue that public support for peace provisions depends on “who bears the burden of peace,” with people wanting to protect their ingroup while holding the outgroup accountable. To examine this claim, we conducted a series of question-wording experiments with more than 1650 Azerbaijani participants shortly after a deadly resurgence of the Nagorno-Karabakh war. Our initial findings confirm that support for war crime punishments and monetary reparations decreases when the ingroup stands trial or must pay. Conversely, support increases when these same burdens fall on the outgroup. A follow-up study shows that these patterns persist for at least 6 months but also reveals a more nuanced perspective. Public support for peace provisions does not automatically decrease when the ingroup bears the cost or increase when the outgroup bears it; rather, it depends on the group-based implications of the provision under consideration. Taken together, our results underscore the importance of crafting and communicating peace provisions in a tailored manner and the potential of emphasizing burden sharing as an effective strategy for addressing intergroup hostilities and fostering sustainable peace
Public compliance with difficult political decisions in times of a pandemic: does citizen deliberation help?
No full textsponsorship: This research was undertaken as part of the Provenance project, which is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant 825227) and by the DCU Covid-19 Research and Innovation Hub. Jane also wants to acknowledge the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Grant Agreement 959234. (European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme|825227, European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme|959234, DCU Covid-19 Research and Innovation Hub)status: Publishe
Oil wealth and US public support for war
No full textHow does the oil wealth of a potential target state affect the likelihood of the US public favoring the use of military force? Recent studies suggest that public opinion on foreign policy is responsive to the core characteristics of target states, such as regime type and majority religion. This article advances this research agenda by examining the effects of intra-regime heterogeneity in respect of an important characteristic of target states: their oil wealth. To examine the relationship between oil wealth and US public opinion on war, we fielded a conjoint experiment with US citizens. Respondents chose between hypothetical pairs of target states that varied across seven different intra-regime characteristics. We found that that the oil wealth of a target exerts a statistically significant (albeit small) effect on public support for the use of force, independent of the effects of other regime characteristics.sponsorship: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Ross James Gildea would like to acknowledge funding support from the Economic and Social Research Council and the National University of Ireland. (Economic and Social Research Council, National University of Ireland)status: Publishe
Political belief formation: individual differences and situational factors
No full textThis chapter reviews research at the intersection of psychology and political science that studies how people form political beliefs. We discuss the degree to which people’s motivations shape the beliefs that they form, paying particular attention to the extent to which people’s political beliefs are generated through reflection. Both individual differences and situational factors affect the extent to which people are reflective in political domains. As always, more questions remain than researchers have answered, and we conclude with some thoughts about the most pressing ones that future research should tackle
Replication Data for: Scaling up Deliberation: Testing the Potential of Mini- Publics to Enhance the Deliberative Capacity of Citizens
No full textThese are replication data for the article "Scaling up Deliberation: Testing the Potential of Mini-Publics to Enhance the Deliberative Capacity of Citizens", forthcoming in Swiss Political Science Revie
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