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“The more official, the less I believe”: Using focus groups to explore public opinion formation in politically polarized contexts "官方越多，我越不相信"：利用焦点小组探讨政治两极化背景下的民意形成

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13421

Isabel Pavez, Magdalena Saldaña, Cristian Cabalin, Andrés Scherman

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Institutional design and the stability of responsiveness in the American states 美国各州的制度设计和反应能力的稳定性

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Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13414

Scott LaCombe

{"title":"Institutional design and the stability of responsiveness in the American states","authors":"Scott LaCombe","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13414","url":null,"abstract":"BackgroundThere is a significant body of research investigating how institutions moderate the relationship between public opinion and policy in the American States, but far less attention has been given to understanding the variance of policy change. Some states have remained relatively stable in their ideological trajectory, while other states tend to see large unstable swings in policy.ObjectivesI argue that the variance of policy, not just the mean, is an important component of understanding policy responsiveness. A state's institutional design can influence both the extent to which policymakers follow public opinion and the ease of moving the status quo.MethodsI use a heteroskedastic regression to model policy responsiveness and variance in the state using a measure of the strength of a state’s checks and balance system and a measure of accountability pressure.ResultsStates with a robust checks and balances system see less policy variance, whereas there is mixed evidence that institutions designed to strengthen public opinion’s role in policy are associated with more stable policy. I also find that institutions play a much stronger role in reducing social policy variance compared to economic policy.ConclusionVariance should be incorporated into our understanding of policy responsiveness, and represents another dimension in which institutions may influence the relationship between public opinion and policy.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141784712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Are charitable donations a luxury good of the rich? Evidence from a survey and actual behavior in a superdiverse metropolis 慈善捐款是富人的奢侈品吗？来自一个超级多元化大都市的调查和实际行为的证据

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13418

Jonas Elis, Sabrina Jasmin Mayer, Achim Goerres

{"title":"Are charitable donations a luxury good of the rich? Evidence from a survey and actual behavior in a superdiverse metropolis","authors":"Jonas Elis, Sabrina Jasmin Mayer, Achim Goerres","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13418","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectivePrevious studies on charitable giving have emphasized the importance of socioeconomic status in explaining why individuals choose to donate or not to donate money. Other explanations, such as social capital or local contexts, have also been investigated, but these perspectives are rarely combined and tested against an actual behavioral outcome measure. We seek to compare the statistical importance of these explanations for individual‐level donation decisions.MethodsOur study investigates survey respondents’ choices to repeatedly donate their earned incentive after a completed interview in the three waves of the Immigrant German Election Study II from 2021. In each wave, respondents were offered an incentive worth 10 euros, which they could either keep as a gift card or donate to the local food bank. This decision is a measurement of real rather than self‐reported donation behavior. We combine individual‐level variables and neighborhood‐level variables that capture the heterogeneity of our sample to systematically compare explanations for this donation decision.ResultsWe find that the respondents’ self‐assessed economic situation and sociopolitical preferences in favor of more social spending by the state, rather than the respondents’ objective socioeconomic status, have strong positive effects on the total amount donated throughout the survey.ConclusionNot the rich per se, but those who think they are doing well economically, and who are on the redistributive left, give more to others. These findings remain robust after controlling for the strong heterogeneity of our sample.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141784867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Election reform and campaign finance: Did Alaska's top 4 nonpartisan primaries and ranked‐choice general elections affect political spending? 选举改革与竞选资金：阿拉斯加四大无党派初选和排名选择大选是否影响了政治支出？

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Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-07-12 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13422

Zachary Albert, Robert G. Boatright, Lane Cuthbert, Adam Eichen, Wouter van Erve, Raymond J. La Raja, Meredith Rolfe

{"title":"Election reform and campaign finance: Did Alaska's top 4 nonpartisan primaries and ranked‐choice general elections affect political spending?","authors":"Zachary Albert, Robert G. Boatright, Lane Cuthbert, Adam Eichen, Wouter van Erve, Raymond J. La Raja, Meredith Rolfe","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13422","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveRanked‐choice voting (RCV) is increasingly seen as a way to reduce political polarization and increase voter choice in elections, but little is known about its effect on candidate fundraising. In 2022, Alaska held its first election using a nonpartisan Top 4 primary followed by a ranked‐choice general election. We analyze the effect of this new system on campaign financing practices in state legislative elections. There are many reasons to expect RCV to increase campaign spending, broaden the donor pool, and prompt donors to support candidates to whom they would not otherwise contribute.MethodWe measure changes in fundraising over the past decade in Alaska legislative elections. We conduct a network analysis of campaign contributors in Alaska for the 2018, 2020, and 2022 state legislative elections.ResultsRCV had minimal consequences for campaign fundraising. Our ability to draw broader conclusions about the relationship between RCV and campaign finance is complicated by unusual features of Alaska politics.ConclusionsThere is little evidence that the adoption of a Top 4/RCV system in Alaska had immediate effects on campaign finance in state legislative elections. However, patterns may change as legislators and donors adapt to the new system.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141612133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Measuring cultural identities in cultural theory survey research 在文化理论调查研究中衡量文化特性

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13419

Branden B. Johnson, Brendon Swedlow

{"title":"Measuring cultural identities in cultural theory survey research","authors":"Branden B. Johnson, Brendon Swedlow","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13419","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveEfforts to measure cultural identities in survey research rely on self‐reported ethnic, racial, and national identities. We test how survey operationalization of grid–group cultural theory (CT) influences the classification of individuals’ (sub)cultural identities.MethodsA national online sample of Americans (n = 697 for current analyses) rated items from CT indices, CT statements, and cultural cognition theory (CCT) indices in a 2016–2017 panel survey. Individuals were classified as identifying with a culture if they supported it (e.g., rating it above the scale mean or median, or in the top 35 percent of the scale distribution) or agreed with each item constituting the scale (the “midpoint method” introduced here).ResultsDifferent classification methods and cultural measures yield different proportions of support of cultural biases, yielding statistically significant differences despite most people being similarly classified. Survey measures can unequivocally assign a minority of people to a single cultural identity, with a majority so classified only if one does not require the individual to support only one bias.ConclusionsUsing a short, conceptually valid measure of culture with the novel midpoint method seems best for CT survey researchers but should have implications more broadly in cultural identity research and social science efforts to classify individuals.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141612134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Comparing public support for digital surveillance policies in 50 countries 比较 50 个国家公众对数字监控政策的支持程度

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13423

Jing Jin, Yufan Guo, Jia Lu

{"title":"Comparing public support for digital surveillance policies in 50 countries","authors":"Jing Jin, Yufan Guo, Jia Lu","doi":"10.1111/ssqu.13423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13423","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectiveThis article employs three theoretical approaches (cultural, institutional, and informational) to explain public willingness to support two major forms of digital surveillance policies—video surveillance and internet surveillance—in the countries with varying levels of political trust.MethodsUtilizing the data from World Values Survey (WVS) and the other sources, this study conducts a multi‐level analysis involving 75,721 respondents from 50 countries or regions.ResultsThe results show that public support for digital surveillance policies varies across digital surveillance types and political trust contexts. The cultural approach demonstrates consistent effects that remain robust irrespective of the type of digital surveillance or political trust. The institutional approach varies by the level of political trust, and the informational approach differs between video and internet surveillance.ConclusionThe effects of three theoretical approaches are compared across digital surveillance types and across political trust contexts. The comparison examines the privacy calculus theory in different scenarios and reveals the intricate trade‐off mechanism inherent in public support for digital surveillance policy.","PeriodicalId":48253,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Quarterly","volume":"2012 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141614817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Volatile pies: Modeling compositional volatility 挥发性馅饼成分挥发性建模

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13406

Abbie Eastman, Andrea Junqueira, Ali Kagalwala, Andrew Q. Philips, Guy D. Whitten

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Revisiting the nexus between development aid, institutions, and growth: A global evidence 重新审视发展援助、机构和增长之间的关系：全球证据

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Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13417

Ömer Faruk Biçen, Mustafa Necati Çoban

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Exploring the influence of wealth on judicial decision making 探讨财富对司法决策的影响

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13412

Banks Miller, Brett Curry

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Race differences in support for anti‐racism policies: Endorsements of anti‐black and anti‐white stereotypes 支持反种族主义政策的种族差异：支持反黑人和反白人的陈规定型观念

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Social Science Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13416

Eric Silver, John Iceland, Kerby Goff

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