Support for bigger government: The principle-implementation gap and COVID-19

IF 1.7 4区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Contemporary Economic Policy Pub Date : 2022-10-19 DOI:10.1111/coep.12593

Sandra H. Goff, John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Alex Reents, Patrick Wade

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Abstract

We study the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on government and market attitudes using within-subject comparisons of survey responses elicited before and after the onset of the pandemic. We find that participants develop significantly less favorable opinions toward government and markets; and that participants increase support for bigger government significantly and for redistribution, in general, marginally significantly. There is no evidence this leads to an increase in support for specific redistributive policies, nor for government to play a larger role in specific functions. Our results echo the stubbornness of American preferences for redistribution and suggest the presence of a principle-implementation gap.

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支持更大的政府:原则与执行的差距和COVID-19

我们研究了COVID-19大流行对政府和市场态度的影响，方法是对疫情爆发前后的调查结果进行主题内比较。我们发现，参与者对政府和市场的好感度显著下降;参与者对大政府的支持显著增加，对再分配的支持总体上略微增加。没有证据表明这会导致对具体再分配政策的支持增加，也不会导致政府在具体职能中发挥更大的作用。我们的研究结果反映了美国对再分配的顽固偏好，并表明存在原则与执行之间的差距。

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Contemporary Economic Policy Multiple-

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3.10

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6.70%

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期刊介绍： Contemporary Economic Policy publishes scholarly economic research and analysis on issues of vital concern to business, government, and other decision makers. Leading western scholars, including three Nobel laureates, are among CEP"s authors. The objectives are to communicate results of high quality economic analysis to policymakers, focus high quality research and analysis on current policy issues of widespread concern, increase knowledge among economists of features of the economy key to understanding the impact of policy, and to advance methods of policy analysis.