专业知识悖论:政策专业知识如何阻碍响应

IF 4.6 1区 社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Miguel M. Pereira, Patrik Öhberg
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摘要本文认为,政策专业知识限制了政治家根据选民偏好采取行动的能力。在特定领域拥有更多知识和经验的代表对自己的特定问题职位更有信心。反过来,增强的信心可能会导致政客们忽视他们不同意的意见,从而产生一种扭曲的选民形象。两项针对瑞典政客的实验支持了这一观点。首先,官员们更有可能驳回自己专业领域选民的诉求,更不可能接受相反的观点可能代表多数人的意见。与提出的机制一致,在第二个实验中,我们表明,诱导感知专业知识增加自信。研究结果表明,在某一特定领域拥有更多专业知识的代表在该领域的表现可能更差。该研究为政策响应的差异提供了一种新颖的解释。
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The Expertise Paradox: How Policy Expertise Can Hinder Responsiveness
Abstract We argue that policy expertise constrains the ability of politicians to act on voter preferences. Representatives with more knowledge and experience in a given domain have more confidence in their own issue-specific positions. Enhanced confidence, in turn, may lead politicians to discount opinions they disagree with, producing a distorted image of the electorate. Two experiments with Swedish politicians support this argument. First, officials are more likely to dismiss appeals from voters in their areas of expertise and less likely to accept that opposing views may represent the majority opinion. Consistent with the proposed mechanism, in a second experiment we show that inducing perceptions of expertise increases self-confidence. The results suggest that representatives with more specialized knowledge in a given area may be less capable of acting as delegates in that domain. The study provides a novel explanation for variations in policy responsiveness.
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期刊介绍: The British Journal of Political Science is a broadly based journal aiming to cover developments across a wide range of countries and specialisms. Contributions are drawn from all fields of political science (including political theory, political behaviour, public policy and international relations), and articles from scholars in related disciplines (sociology, social psychology, economics and philosophy) appear frequently. With a reputation established over nearly 40 years of publication, the British Journal of Political Science is widely recognised as one of the premier journals in its field.
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