The Correlates of Support for Compulsory Voting

2021 ◽  
pp. 66-79
Author(s):  
Shane P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Average Level ◽  
Compulsory Voting ◽  
Public Opinion Surveys ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mandatory Voting

Chapter 4 empirically probes the relationship between attitudes toward democracy and support for compulsory voting. In doing so, it makes use of a range of public opinion surveys which ask questions about attitudes toward compulsory voting. Results demonstrate variation in the average level of support for compulsory voting across countries. They are also indicative of a systematic, negative effect of dissatisfaction with democracy, which is used to capture orientations toward democracy, on support for compulsory voting. This effect can be discerned even with controls for political interest, ideology, and a slate of demographic variables. This supports the uncomplicated but foundational expectation of the theory in Chapter 3: that those who are democratically disenchanted are also unsupportive of mandatory voting.

scholarly journals When Will People Pay to Pollute? Environmental Taxes, Political Trust and Experimental Evidence from Britain

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 661-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Fairbrother
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Environmental Taxes ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Political Distrust ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Relationship

This article presents results from survey experiments investigating conditions under which Britons are willing to pay taxes on polluting activities. People are no more willing if revenues are hypothecated for spending on environmental protection, while making such taxes more relevant to people – by naming petrol and electricity as products to which they will apply – has a modestly negative effect. Public willingness increases sharply if people are told that new environmental taxes would be offset by cuts to other taxes, but political distrust appears to undermine much of this effect. Previous studies have argued that political trust shapes public opinion with respect to environmental and many other policies. But this article provides the first experimental evidence suggesting that the relationship is causal, at least for one specific facet: cynicism about public officials’ honesty and integrity. The results suggest a need to make confidence in the trustworthiness of public officials and their promises more central to conceptualizations of political trust.

Food Insufficiency and Depression

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng Wu ◽  
Christoph M. Schimmele
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Single Fathers ◽  
Food Insufficiency ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Effect Of Food ◽  
Health Survey Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Better Than

Using National Population Health Survey data and the stress process model, this study investigates the relationship between food insufficiency and the risk of depression among Canadian adults. The study presents three principal findings. First, after controlling for conventional socioeconomic and socio-demographic variables, food insufficiency increases the risk of depression and actually predicts this risk better than measures of low income, main source of income, and education. Second, the negative effect of food insufficiency is not attributable to social resources disparities, even though these resources significantly reduce the size of the effect. Third, the effects of food insufficiency on depression are generally stronger for women than for men, but the results also indicate that single fathers from food insufficient households face more depression than other groups, including single mothers.

Cross-Cuttingness, Cleavage Structures and Civil War Onset

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Sawat Selway
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Significant Determinant ◽  
Ethnic Fractionalization ◽  
Public Opinion Surveys ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cleavage Structure ◽  
Civil War Onset

This article seeks to further our understanding of how social structure affects the onset of civil war. Existing studies to date have been inconclusive, focusing only on single-cleavage characteristics of social structure, such as ethnic or religious fractionalization. This study argues that models that do not take into account the relationship between cleavages (or cleavage structure) are biased and thus reach faulty conclusions. With the focus on the cleavages of ethnicity and religion, the effects of two characteristics of cleavage structure on civil war onset (cross-cuttingness and cross-fragmentation) are defined and tested. A new index of ethno-religious cross-cuttingness (ERC), derived from national public opinion surveys, reveals that ERC is a significant determinant of civil war onset when interacted with ethnic fractionalization.

scholarly journals Electing to Trust: An Exploration of the Relationship between Public Opinion and Localized Processes on Judicial Selection

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey D. Peterson ◽  
Christopher Hare ◽  
J. Mark Wrighton
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Past Research ◽  
State Courts ◽  
Trial Courts ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Local Courts ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Relationship

Public trust in government depends largely on the belief that institutions are fair and respond to the will of the governed. We expand on past research on the relationship between public opinion and state courts by studying how selection methods for both state and local courts influence popular attitudes about the judicial branch. Employing individual-level survey data on the responsiveness and fairness of state supreme courts and local trial courts, we find that respondents in states using elections to choose judges for state courts believe the judicial system is fairer. Further, the use of non-partisan elections for local trial courts has a positive effect on public evaluations of judicial fairness. However, views on judicial responsiveness are unaffected by means of selection at either the state or local level. Thus, nonpartisan or even partisan judicial elections do not have a negative effect on our measures of trust; indeed, when elections do have an effect, it is a positive one.

The Impact of Demographic Variables on Public Opinion Regarding Juvenile Justice: Implications for Public Policy

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ira M. Schwartz ◽  
Shenyang Guo ◽  
John J. Kerbs
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Juvenile Crime ◽  
African American Parents ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Punitive Attitudes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Racial Ethnic

This article examines data from a 1991 national public opinion survey on attitudes toward juvenile crime/justice. Specifically, it explores the relationship between demographic variables and opinions toward trying juveniles in adult courts, giving them adult sentences, and sentencing them to adult prisons. The findings indicate that a majority of typical respondents favor trying juveniles in adult courts for serious felonies. Additionally, punitive attitudes toward juveniles decrease up to a certain age, usually around 50, and then increase. Findings also show that African-American parents are more supportive of punitive juvenile justice policies than other racial/ethnic groups with and without children.

Public opinion and public policy in Turkey

2018 ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
Sedef Turper
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Opinion Surveys

This chapter focuses on political attitudes and policy preferences of Turkish citizens in various salient policy domains. The chapter makes use of several public opinion surveys conducted in Turkey during the period between 1990 and 2015. Firstly, the chapter is concerned with levels of political interest among the Turkish public, and across different subpopulations. The chapter then goes on to consider the public policy issues which have been salient to the Turkish public over the last ten years and the policy preferences of Turkish citizens regarding these salient public policy issues. The current analysis of the policy preferences of the Turkish public points at probable causes of discontent with certain public policies in Turkey as well as the potential areas for policy change where substantial public support can be consolidated.

scholarly journals Political ideology and attitudes toward vaccination: Study report

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Czarnek ◽  
Małgorzata Kossowska ◽  
Paulina Szwed
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
European Context ◽  
The Us ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

As the relationship between ideology and attitudes towards vaccinations is usually analysed using data collected in the US context, in this report we focus on the vaccination attitudes in Europe, with a special focus on Poland. The current findings show that the effects of ideology on vaccine attitudes are insignificant when European context is considered. Instead, we found that ideology interact with political interest: among people interested in politics, right-wing ideology had negative effect on vaccine attitudes and beliefs, whereas for people not interested in politics, the effects of ideology were insignificant. However, the interaction effects were rather modest and did not provide support for the hypothesis that there is a “liberal bias” against vaccination. We suggest that it insignificant effects of ideology on vaccine attitudes in the European context is related to the fact that vaccines have not become a strongly politicized issue as it is in the US.

The Impact of Competitive Quasi-Market on Service Delivery in Benue State University, Makurdi Nigeria

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Idoko Peter
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
State University ◽  
Ordinary Least Square ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This research the impact of competitive quasi market on service delivery in Benue State University, Makurdi Nigeria. Both primary and secondary source of data and information were used for the study and questionnaire was used to extract information from the purposively selected respondents. The population for this study is one hundred and seventy three (173) administrative staff of Benue State University selected at random. The statistical tools employed was the classical ordinary least square (OLS) and the probability value of the estimates was used to tests hypotheses of the study. The result of the study indicates that a positive relationship exist between Competitive quasi marketing in Benue State University, Makurdi Nigeria (CQM) and Transparency in the service delivery (TRSP) and the relationship is statistically significant (p<0.05). Competitive quasi marketing (CQM) has a negative effect on Observe Competence in Benue State University, Makurdi Nigeria (OBCP) and the relationship is not statistically significant (p>0.05). Competitive quasi marketing (CQM) has a positive effect on Innovation in Benue State University, Makurdi Nigeria (INVO) and the relationship is statistically significant (p<0.05) and in line with a priori expectation. This means that a unit increases in Competitive quasi marketing (CQM) will result to a corresponding increase in innovation in Benue State University, Makurdi Nigeria (INVO) by a margin of 22.5%. It was concluded that government monopoly in the provision of certain types of services has greatly affected the quality of service experience in the institution. It was recommended among others that the stakeholders in the market has to be transparent so that the system will be productive to serve the society effectively

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