Stephen D Ansolabehere
Biographic Data
| ID | 1324329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen D Ansolabehere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Ansolabehere |
| SIGNATURE | ANSOLABEHERE S D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unilateral Action and Presidential Accountability
How do constituents respond to the president’s policy decisions? Theories of democratic accountability posit that voters elect officeholders to advance their policy preferences and punish them for failing to do so. We investigate the accountability mechanism in the context of presidential unilateral action. Data from the 2018 Cooperative Congressional Election Study provide evidence of issue‐based presidential accountability, as presidential appr…
Policy, Politics, and Public Attitudes Toward the Supreme Court
We assess the importance of the public’s policy agreement with the Supreme Court on public approval of the court. Using survey data on a range of recent court cases, we measure respondents’ perceived ideological closeness to the court. Then, we test various theories of court approval (doctrinal, functional, attitudinal). People who believe the court has decided recent cases as they themselves would have done, or that judges share their partisansh…
Replicating Experiments Using Aggregate and Survey Data
Experiments show significant demobilizing and alienating effects of negative advertising. Although internally valid, experiments may have limited external validity. Aggregate and survey data offer two ways of providing external validation for experiments. We show that survey recall measures of advertising exposure suffer from problems of internal validity due to simultaneity and measurement error, which bias estimated effects of ad exposure. We p…
Replicating Experiments Using Aggregate and Survey Data
Experiments show significant demobilizing and alienating effects of negative advertising. Although internally valid, experiments may have limited external validity. Aggregate and survey data offer two ways of providing external validation for experiments. We show that survey recall measures of advertising exposure suffer from problems of internal validity due to simultaneity and measurement error, which bias estimated effects of ad exposure. We p…
Policy, Politics, and Public Attitudes Toward the Supreme Court
We assess the importance of the public’s policy agreement with the Supreme Court on public approval of the court. Using survey data on a range of recent court cases, we measure respondents’ perceived ideological closeness to the court. Then, we test various theories of court approval (doctrinal, functional, attitudinal). People who believe the court has decided recent cases as they themselves would have done, or that judges share their partisansh…
Unilateral Action and Presidential Accountability
How do constituents respond to the president’s policy decisions? Theories of democratic accountability posit that voters elect officeholders to advance their policy preferences and punish them for failing to do so. We investigate the accountability mechanism in the context of presidential unilateral action. Data from the 2018 Cooperative Congressional Election Study provide evidence of issue‐based presidential accountability, as presidential appr…
Replicating Experiments Using Aggregate and Survey Data
Experiments show significant demobilizing and alienating effects of negative advertising. Although internally valid, experiments may have limited external validity. Aggregate and survey data offer two ways of providing external validation for experiments. We show that survey recall measures of advertising exposure suffer from problems of internal validity due to simultaneity and measurement error, which bias estimated effects of ad exposure. We p…
Unilateral Action and Presidential Accountability
How do constituents respond to the president’s policy decisions? Theories of democratic accountability posit that voters elect officeholders to advance their policy preferences and punish them for failing to do so. We investigate the accountability mechanism in the context of presidential unilateral action. Data from the 2018 Cooperative Congressional Election Study provide evidence of issue‐based presidential accountability, as presidential appr…
Policy, Politics, and Public Attitudes Toward the Supreme Court
We assess the importance of the public’s policy agreement with the Supreme Court on public approval of the court. Using survey data on a range of recent court cases, we measure respondents’ perceived ideological closeness to the court. Then, we test various theories of court approval (doctrinal, functional, attitudinal). People who believe the court has decided recent cases as they themselves would have done, or that judges share their partisansh…
Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works) · Ideology (2 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Presidential system (2 works) · Accountability (1 work) · Action (physics (1 work) · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (1 work)