(Small D-democratic) vacation, all I ever wanted? The effect of democratic backsliding on leisure travel in the American states

IF 3.2 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Journal of Experimental Political Science Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI:10.1017/xps.2023.40

David R. Miller, Serena D. Smith

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Abstract

As many American states have considered policies consistent with democratic backsliding in recent years, political elites and scholars have speculated on the consequences of these policies for political behavior. We examine the effect of backsliding policies on Americans’ preferences over leisure travel destinations; because vacationing is transitory, this focus allows us to isolate the role of individuals’ democratic predispositions and values in preference formation from the implications of these policies on their self-interest that they would experience from living under those policies themselves. Through pre-registered conjoint and vignette survey experiments, we find that Americans, and especially Democrats, express less interest in vacationing in states that recently adopted backsliding policies. Our results spotlight an accountability mechanism by which Americans may sanction backsliding states, though the modest magnitude of these sanctions – less than 1% of backsliding states’ gross domestic products – may not deter backsliding behavior on their own.

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(小D-民主）假期，我想要的一切？民主倒退对美国各州休闲旅游的影响

近年来，美国许多州都在考虑与民主倒退相一致的政策，因此政治精英和学者们纷纷猜测这些政策对政治行为的影响。我们研究了倒退政策对美国人休闲旅游目的地偏好的影响；由于度假是短暂的，因此这一研究重点使我们能够将个人的民主倾向和价值观在偏好形成中的作用与这些政策对他们自身利益的影响（他们自己生活在这些政策下也会体验到这种影响）区分开来。通过预先登记的联合调查和小插曲调查实验，我们发现美国人，尤其是民主党人，对到最近采取倒退政策的州度假表示出较低的兴趣。我们的研究结果揭示了一种问责机制，通过这种机制，美国人可以制裁背离政策的州，尽管这些制裁的力度不大--不到背离政策州国内生产总值的 1%--可能本身并不能阻止背离行为。

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Journal of Experimental Political Science Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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5.10

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8.30%

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