Ballot Initiatives and Status Quo Bias
| Autor: | Joshua J. Dyck, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Status quo bias
05 social sciences Opposition (politics) Direct democracy Public policy Political communication Public administration 0506 political science Ballot Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Political science 0502 economics and business Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration 050207 economics |
| Zdroj: | State Politics & Policy Quarterly. 19:180-207 |
| ISSN: | 1946-1607 1532-4400 |
| Popis: | Is there an opposition bias in ballot initiative campaigns? While some early research suggested that the “no” side was advantaged in ballot initiative campaigns, recent work has demonstrated that both opposition and support spending in ballot measure campaigns are effective. We offer a new way to conceptualize status quo orientation in ballot measure elections. Specifically, we argue that opposition arguments are more effective than support arguments because of the well-known framing negativity bias and not because the starting position for uninformed voters is to default to no. We present the results of two survey experiments to test the impact of support and opposition arguments in ballot initiative campaigns. We find consistent evidence that opposition arguments are effective in generating more “no” votes and that support arguments are ineffective in generating more “yes” votes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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