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From election day to presidential approval: Partisanship and the honeymoon period in Mexico
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In this article , the authors analyze the early phase of a presidential term, the phase between election day and the first quarter of the first year of the presidential term in which voters form their initial assessment of the new president's administration, a subject understudied by the literature.About:
This article is published in Electoral Studies.The article was published on 2022-02-01. It has received 2 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Honeymoon & Presidential system.read more
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Same scandal, different interpretations: politics of corruption, anger, and partisan bias in Mexico
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Instead of focusing on “why voters appear to tolerate rather than punish” as most previous literature, this paper advances an alternative explanation: it seeks to explain how voters process information about corruption. Consistent with research on public opinion formation, this paper argues that voters can perceive the same event and make different interpretation about its meaning. Based on an original survey experiment conducted during the 2018 presidential election in Mexico, this study finds that citizens hold partisan attitudes and are motivated to protect these partisan predispositions, which make them interpret common events in different way. In particular, when this study informed voters that an unnamed candidate engaged in corruption, respondents unequivocally considered such actions as corrupt. However, when the name of their co-partisan candidate was explicitly mentioned as engaging in the same activities, voters rejected to qualify them as corrupt. Partisans are not “tolerating” or “condoning” corruption; partisans tend to choose interpretations that rationalize their partisan priors and justify their co-partisans’ behavior.
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Presidential Approval, Tolerant Attitudes, and Economic Performance: The Case of Latin America
TL;DR: This article found that the main predictor for tolerant attitudes is presidential approval, and that the individual-level effect dissipates in a context of good performance of the economy, which causes the presidential ingroup to not feel threatened by any outgroup.
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Critical citizens : global support for democratic government
TL;DR: Nye, Jr. as mentioned in this paper studied the growth of critical citizens and its consequences in post-Communist Europe and found that critical citizens were more likely to vote for the Democratic Party in the 1990s.
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War, presidents, and public opinion
TL;DR: The authors presents a rigorous analysis of public opinion on the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and on the Presidents who led us during those conflicts, showing how polling results are often misused, and develops many unconventional conclusions.
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Beyond the Running Tally: Partisan Bias in Political Perceptions
TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of long-term partisan loyalties on perceptions of specific political figures and events and concluded that partisan bias in political perceptions plays a crucial role in perpetuating and reinforcing sharp differences in opinion between Democrats and Republicans.
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Political Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy: A Cross-National Analysis of Consensus and Majoritarian Systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used cross-sectional survey data for eleven European democracies together with data on the type of democracy in which individuals live to demonstrate that the nature of representative democratic institutions mediates the relationship between a person's status as part of the political minority or majority and his or her satisfaction with the way the system works.