How to Get Away with Murder in Russia: Political Support in the Times of Crisis. Evidence from the Survey Experiment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Sirotkina ◽  
Margarita Zavadskaya
Keyword(s):  
Political Support ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
The Times

What drives political support? Evidence from a survey experiment at the onset of the corona crisis

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Julian Erhardt ◽  
Markus Freitag ◽  
Steffen Wamsler ◽  
Maximilian Filsinger
Keyword(s):  
Political Support ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Support Evidence

Welfare or politics? A survey experiment of political discontent and support for redistribution in Hong Kong

Politics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathew YH Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Social Affinity ◽  
The Government ◽  
Vignette Experiment

This study examines support for redistribution in the developed economy of Hong Kong from three theoretical perspectives: self-interest, ideology, and social affinity. The analysis uses a between-subjects randomized vignette experiment to explore the interplay between welfare and politics; in particular, it addresses whether people express opposition to a welfare policy to convey political discontent even if they otherwise support the policy. Drawing on a survey of university students (N = 1245), the study finds that self-interest and ideology, and specifically perceptions of social mobility and individual responsibility, are strong predictors of support for redistribution. The vignette experiment provides evidence that politics indeed spills over into support for welfare policies. Respondents expressed less support for public housing if cued that the policy was associated with the government and were already dissatisfied with political leadership. The findings have implications for research on political support for redistribution and welfare policies.

scholarly journals Do African Voters Favor Coethnics? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Benin

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire L. Adida
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Experimental Test ◽  
Real World ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Independent Effect ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Political Actor ◽  
Ethnic Cues ◽  
Mixed Ethnicity

AbstractCan African politicians play the ethnic card? Ethnicity matters for a host of outcomes in Africa, but debate remains about the extent to which it motivates the African voter. In experimental settings, we know that ethnicity shapes political support for hypothetical candidates. This paper offers an experimental test of the extent to which ethnicity shapes political support for actual, real-world politicians. Relying on Benin’s mixed-ethnicity President, this paper proposes a survey experiment that measures the independent effect of coethnic cues in boosting support across both coethnic groups. The results reveal that coethnic cues work: the same political actor can draw support from two different ethnic groups based solely on subtle ethnic cues.

scholarly journals Factors of mass support for government in the times of structural reforms

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-104
Author(s):  
Boris Sokolov ◽  
Emil Kamalov
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Structural Reforms ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Approval Ratings ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Times

Any country in order to stay afloat sooner or later is forced to undertake large-scale internal reforms in various policy areas. However, structural reforms often bear adverse consequences for the population. As the studies of the US and European states show, one of the most crucial negative consequences is the decrease in mass support for the government that has initiated the reform. The latter manifests itself in a drop of approval ratings, trust in government, propensity to vote for the incumbent at the forthcoming elections. Such a decrease may lead to decreased legitimacy of the political power, thereby destabilizing the current political system. Is it possible to strike the balance between the necessity of reform and upholding trust on the society’s behalf? Can a government carry out painful reforms without provoking hatred? What conditions facilitate such balance? Although the factors of mass support play the central role in nowadays’ political science, the answers to the questions mentioned above remain unanswered. This article examines different options available to governments in order to preserve their mass support and legitimacy when conducting unpopular reforms, with a special emphasis on media framing. Using various theoretical sources and the recent literature on political support in Russia, it identifies various factors that may facilitate the use of the latter option in the Russian context.

Information from Abroad: Foreign Media, Selective Exposure and Political Support in China

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haifeng Huang ◽  
Yao-Yuan Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Regime Stability ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
New Variant ◽  
Foreign Media ◽  
Free Media ◽  
Preference Trial

What kind of content do citizens in a developing and authoritarian country like to acquire from Western free media? What are the effects of their potentially selective exposure? In a survey experiment involving 1,200 Chinese internet users from diverse socio-demographic backgrounds, this study finds that Chinese citizens with higher pro-Western orientations and lower regime evaluations are more inclined to read content that is positive about foreign countries or negative about China. More importantly, reading relatively positive foreign media content about foreign countries can improve rather than worsen the domestic evaluations of citizens who self-select such content. The article argues that this is because reputable Western media outlets’ reports are generally more realistic than overly rosy information about foreign socio-economic conditions that popularly circulates in China. Consequently, foreign media may have a corrective function and enhance regime stability in an authoritarian country by making regime critics less critical. The article also introduces a new variant of the patient preference trial design that integrates self-selection and random assignment of treatments in a way that is useful for studying information effects.

scholarly journals VIDEOCONFERENCE HEARINGS AFTER THE TIMES OF PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gábor Fekete
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Political ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Right ◽  
Interim Measures

The sanitary crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in several changes in the way courts communicate, can be reached and handle cases. The so-called videoconferencing became one of the accepted ways of the hearings. This kind of videoconferencing took place on online videoconference solutions, which differ a lot from the conventional videoconference systems. After the exceptional situation, it remained a question whether the digital revolution of court proceedings had arrived or the use of videoconferencing should remain an exceptional instrument. The application of a videoconference system is the subject of the right to a fair trial, in this regard it has been contested by the European Court of Human Rights in several cases. This case law stated several expectations and reveals many aspects, which have to be applied to the online videoconference solutions. On the other hand, the wider use of legal tech instruments is the subject of the political will. The political support is crystallizing within the EU, whose right to act is limited. The interim measures which were introduced under the emergency law regimes on national level show a number of experiences on how the continuous and legally founded functioning of the justice system can be ensured, for example by the use of online video hearings. The balance between the effectivity and the legality is a crucial question. Upon the above-mentioned sources, the paper introduces the differences of the two methods of videoconferencing. It examines the legal requirements, details the experiences and shows the opportunities of the use of videoconference systems and online videoconference solutions in civil cases. The use of videoconference in civil hearings can be an instrument conforming to procedural right. The general application of videoconference, especially the online solution lowers the threshold to access the justice, accelerates the procedures, ensures social distancing, but requires both legal and technical preparedness.

scholarly journals KONSEP DAN IMPLEMENTASI IDEOLOGI PANCASILA DALAM PERUMUSAN KEBIJAKAN PEMERINTAHAN

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Andi Azikin
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
New Order ◽  
Assessment Index ◽  
The People ◽  
Government Power ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Liberal Capitalism ◽  
The Times

ABSTRACTThe Pancasila that has been agreed upon by the Indonesian people as a state ideology in regulating the life of the nation and state always experiences challenges and tests on the socio-political situation and the conditions of the times which are constantly changing. As an open ideology, Pancasila implies that the basic values of Pancasila are expected to be developed and form the basis of formulating government policies in accordance with the dynamics of life in society and nation to achieve the goals of the country. In the practice of state and government since the old order, the new order and the reform order, the existing philosophical values of Pancasila are considered not enough to have an assessment index to be implemented in the operationalization of rules in formulating government policies, where the interpretation of Pancasila values is always different -different in formulating government policies for each government regime. Even Pancasila is always only used as a “jargon” by every regime in power in maintaining its power against parties that are critical or not in line with the politics of the ruling regime. As a result, Pancasila always loses its essence, because every government regime always builds its own discourse about the essence of the meaning of Pancasila, which is adjusted to its political interests. Even in the course of reform in Indonesia since 1998, Indonesia has become a “Pancasila” state under the guise of Liberal Capitalism. The application of neoliberal government policy has never been questioned, whether it is appropriate or not with the values of Pancasila. Even though later, the problem of new style authoritarianism and new style corruption in the liberal era arose, again the value and meaning of Pancasila was again interpreted to adapt the current liberal capitalism system.. The method with the coalition process between the executive and political party parties in the legislature coupled with “political” support of capitalist holders of capital gave birth to a coalition to secure the interests of each party, as a result of the legislative and executive (President) directly elected by the people as representatives of government power holders, become ineffective, in guaranteeing the welfare of the people because of the hostility of government power with the interests of capitalists who have supported it. Then where is the concept and implementation of social justice for all Indonesian people ....? Keywords: Pancasila ideology, government policy

The Eclipsing Binary WX Eridani

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 385
Author(s):  
M.B.K. Sarma ◽  
K.D. Abhankar
Keyword(s):  
Light Curve ◽  
Spectral Type ◽  
Orbital Period ◽  
Primary Component ◽  
Light Curves ◽  
Absorption Feature ◽  
Primary Star ◽  
Eclipsing Binary ◽  
The Times ◽  
Phase Angles

AbstractThe Algol-type eclipsing binary WX Eridani was observed on 21 nights on the 48-inch telescope of the Japal-Rangapur Observatory during 1973-75 in B and V colours. An improved period of P = 0.82327038 days was obtained from the analysis of the times of five primary minima. An absorption feature between phase angles 50-80, 100-130, 230-260 and 280-310 was present in the light curves. The analysis of the light curves indicated the eclipses to be grazing with primary to be transit and secondary, an occultation. Elements derived from the solution of the light curve using Russel-Merrill method are given. From comparison of the fractional radii with Roche lobes, it is concluded that none of the components have filled their respective lobes but the primary star seems to be evolving. The spectral type of the primary component was estimated to be F3 and is found to be pulsating with two periods equal to one-fifth and one-sixth of the orbital period.

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