322 research outputs found
Replication Data for: The Social Divisions of Politics: How Parties' Group-Based Appeals Influence Social Group Differences in Vote Choice
No full textSocial groups often differ in vote choice, but differences vary significantly between elections. Recent work argues that political parties shape group differences by the policies they propose. I posit that differences also depend on how parties use group-based appeals. This proposition is tested with a unique dataset on group-based appeals, policy-based appeals, and voter preferences in Britain from 1964 to 2015. Focusing on social class as one prominent group membership, I show how class differences in vote choice respond to policy-based as well as group-based class appeals: the gap between voters from opposing classes widens or narrows depending on how much the Labour Party emphasizes ‘old’ symbolic ties to workers and ‘new’ ties to businesses. These effects are robust and compare to the policy effects highlighted in previous work. Overall, this implies a revised view on how political parties influence the social divisions of electoral politics
sj-pdf-1-psx-10.1177_00323217231220127 – Supplemental material for The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-psx-10.1177_00323217231220127 for The Group Appeal Strategy: Beyond the Policy Perspective on Party Electoral Success by Mads Thau in Political Studies</p
How Political Parties Use Group-Based Appeals: Evidence from Britain 1964–2015
No full textPolitical parties often appeal to groups. Yet, existing work does not consider how such group-based appeals are used, presumably because they are thought to have grown ineffective. Contrary to this, I argue that group-based appeals are central to party electoral strategy, and that time has only strengthened the incentive to use them. Using original data on 10,000 group-based appeals found in sentence-by-sentence coding of British election manifestos, I demonstrate an increasing use of group-based appeals from 1964 to 2015. Furthermore, I show that the range of groups emphasized, the concentration of group emphasis, and the specific group categories targeted also follow the electoral incentives prevalent over this 50-year period. These findings shed new light on how political parties appeal for votes and suggest that we view group-based appeals as a distinctive feature of party electoral strategy. I discuss the implications for our broader understanding of electoral competition.</jats:p
Public Scandals and User Satisfaction with Public Services
No full textThis research aims to test the effect of public scandals on user satisfaction. Specifically, we want to estimate the effect of a large-scale embezzlement scandal in the Danish National Board of Social Services (NBSS) in 2018 on public service satisfaction among NBSS users. We use a two-wave survey conducted in 2018 and 2020
Does Intergroup Bias Shape Teamwork Perceptions among Public Service Professionals?
No full textThis research gauges the ingroup favoritism occurring in public service professionals' attitudes towards teamwork with other professionals and tests whether such group bias works though universal trait impressions about warmth and competence. We use a moderation-of-process design in which we manipulate both treatments and mediators to minimize the confounding that often plague mediation analyses. Specifically, a large-scale survey randomly assigns Danish school teachers to one of six conditions (falling within two treatment arms) that describe fictitious teamwork situations in which the teacher respondent has to collaborate in a working group. In the "natural process" treatment arm, teachers either collaborate with other teachers from their own school (ingroup condition) or various other professions from outside their school (outgroup condition). This establishes a baseline group bias effect. In the "interrupted process" treatment arm, cues about the warmth and competence of the other participants in the working group are then added to the ingroup and outgroup vignettes, yielding four additional conditions (ingroup+warmth; outgroup+warmth; ingroup+competence; outgroup+competence). To the extent that basic trait impressions drive group bias in teamwork attitudes, the ingroup-vs-outgroup effect should be lower when warmth and competence cues are provided, than when they are not, because these cues overwrite the process leading to the group bias observed in the baseline
FERTILIZATION-INDEPENDENT SEED-Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 Plays a Dual Role in Regulating Type I MADS-Box Genes in Early Endosperm Development
No full textEarly endosperm development presents a unique system in which to uncover epigenetic regulatory mechanisms because the contributing maternal and paternal genomes possess differential epigenetic modi?cations. In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), the initiation of endosperm coenocytic growth upon fertilization and the transition to endosperm cellularization are regulated by the FERTILIZATION-INDEPENDENT SEED (FIS)-Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2), a putative H3K27 methyltransferase. Here, we address the possible role of the FIS-PRC2 complex in regulating the type I MADS-box gene family, which has been shown previously to regulate early endosperm development. We show that a subclass of type I MADS-box genes (C2 genes) was expressed in distinct domains of the coenocytic endosperm in wild-type seeds. Furthermore, the C2 genes were mostly up-regulated biallelically during the extended coenocytic phase of endosperm development in the FIS-PRC2 mutant background. Using allele-speci?c expression analysis, we also identi?ed a small subset of C2 genes subjected to FIS-PRC2-dependent maternal or FIS-PRC2-independent paternal imprinting. Our data support a dual role for the FIS-PRC2 complex in the regulation of C2 type I MADS-box genes, as evidenced by a generalized role in the repression of gene expression at both alleles associated with endosperm cellularization and a specialized role in silencing the maternal allele of imprinted genes
Comparing 31 European Countries’ Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis
No full textBased on an author survey among the contributors to the preceding 31 country chapters, the conclusion summarises European governments’ responses to the pandemic by examining if variations in the handling of the pandemic reflect geographic South, East, North, and West cleavages. These cleavages largely correspond to different levels of affluence, economic distributional legacies, and democratic embeddedness highlighted as structural determinants of response patterns by the already substantial Covid-19 policy literature. Variations in the policy responses and dynamics of politicization are mapped and discussed. It is assessed which actors were empowered and disempowered in the policy process and if the mode of interaction between actors was altered compared to normal policymaking. Finally, the impacts on national political systems are appraised
When Diversity Fails: How Intergroup Bias Influences Teamwork among Public Service Professionals
No full textThis research aims to test the effect of ingroup and outgroup cues on attitudes towards teamwork in public service delivery. Specifically, we use a survey-embedded experiment that randomly assigns Danish school teachers to one of three fictitious teamwork situations in which they have to collaborate in a working group with either other teachers from their own school (ingroup condition), various other professions from outside their school (outgroup condition), or an unspecified group of participants (control condition)
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