There has been a lot of scholarly attention devoted to explaining why policies have feedback effects on public opinion. In my review of the policy feedback literature, I made the following observation on the attention to potential explanations in the literature (p. 374): Soss and Schram (2007), for example, elaborate that policies change basic features […]
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Policy feedback effects on public opinion: a list of quantitative studies
In my article in the Policy Studies Journal (published in 2019), I provided a review of published quantitative studies that explicitly examine policy feedback effects on public opinion. Since then, I have noticed several other studies being published and below I provide a list of the studies I have in my archive. As you can […]
New article in Journal of European Social Policy: Personal politics
I have a new paper titled ‘Personal politics? Health care policies, personal experiences and government attitudes’ in the new issue of Journal of European Social Policy. Here is the abstract: Do personal experiences matter for public attitudes towards the role of the government? In the domain of healthcare, I argue that policies change the salience […]