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Jamaal S Matthews

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ID389080
NAMEJamaal S Matthews
GIVEN NAMESJamaal S
FAMILY NAMEMatthews
SIGNATUREMATTHEWS J S
AFFILIATIONSMemorial University of Newfoundland
ORCID0000-0001-9738-3447
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS412
AUTHOR COUNT23
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX8
  • The Nonconsequences of Covid-19 on Left–Right Ideological Beliefs

    Jack Blumenau, Timothy Hicks et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2024•References: 31

  • When partisanship and technocratic credibility collide: Mass attitudes and central bank endorsements of fiscal policy in Canada and the USA

    Open Access•Kyle Hanniman, Olivier Jacques et al.•ARTICLE•Socio-Economic Review•2024•References: 45

    Developments over the past decade have made it increasingly difficult for central banks to achieve their macroeconomic objectives without the help of fiscal policy, resulting in some surprisingly public efforts from central banks to influence the size and direction of government budget balances. But do voters find central bank appeals persuasive and what are the reputational consequences of engaging the public on this sensitive issue, particularl…

  • Unequal Democracies: Public Policy, Responsiveness, and Redistribution in an Era of Rising Economic Inequality

    Open Access•Ruben B Mathisen, Wouter Schakel et al.•BOOK•Unequal Democracies•2023

    While economic inequality has risen in every affluent democracy in North America and Western Europe, the last three decades have also been characterized by falling or stagnating levels of state-led economic redistribution. Why have democratically accountable governments not done more to distribute top-income shares to citizens with low- and middle-income? Unequal Democracies offers answers to this question, bringing together contributions that fo…

  • Racial Spillover in Political Attitudes: Generalizing to a New Leader and Context

    Open Access•Randy Besco, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•Political Behavior•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 23

  • Conceptualizing Municipal Elections: The Case of Toronto 2018

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, R Michael Mcgregor et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 32

    Since Angus Campbell and colleagues first introduced the “levels of conceptualization” (LoC) framework as a measure of political sophistication, a number of scholars have applied the approach to subsequent American national elections. In this study, we present the first application of the LoC framework to a municipal election, and focus upon the 2018 Toronto mayoral race. After describing the method and data we use to adapt the framework to this …

  • Unmasking Accountability: Judging Performance in an Interdependent World

    Austin Hart, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 43

    As local conditions come to reflect extralocal forces, signals of government competence grow more obscure. Yet we know relatively little about how voters evaluate incumbent performance in the context of interdependence. We use a series of simulated voting tasks to examine three theoretical possibilities: blind retrospection, rational discounting, and benchmarking. Across five experiments requiring "voters" to judge performance in a setting that o…

  • Levels of Conceptualization and Municipal Politics: Replication in a New Context

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, R Michael Mcgregor et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Political Science•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    Since Angus Campbell and colleagues introduced the Levels of Conceptualization (LoC) framework as a measure of political sophistication, only a very small number of scholars have applied this approach to understanding how electors view political actors. In 2008, Michael Lewis-Beck and colleagues replicated this foundational study and found similar results using much more recent data on American national elections. In this brief research report, w…

  • The Canadian Municipal Election Study

    Open Access•R Michael Mcgregor, Cameron D Anderson et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Political Science•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 15

    It is in this context of rapid growth of the field of local political behaviour that we introduce the Canadian Municipal Election Study (CMES) dataset. With a total sample size of 14,458, the dataset includes survey responses from voters and non-voters in eight of Canada’s largest cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, London, Mississauga, Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City. Cities were chosen on the basis of size, contextual variation, and instit…

  • Whose News? Class-Biased Economic Reporting in the United States

    Open Access•Alan M Jacobs, Jamaal S Matthews et al.•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2021•Cited by: 13•References: 42

    There is substantial evidence that voters' choices are shaped by assessments of the state of the economy and that these assessments, in turn, are influenced by the news. But how does the economic news track the welfare of different income groups in an era of rising inequality? Whose economy does the news cover? Drawing on a large new dataset of US news content, we demonstrate that the tone of the economic news strongly and disproportionately trac…

  • Rational Learners or Impervious Partisans? Economic News and Partisan Bias in Economic Perceptions

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Mark Pickup et al.•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 37

    Decades of research have established the direct influence of partisanship on voter perception of a host of real-world conditions. Even so, numerous factors have been found to moderate this “partisan bias.” We examine one plausible moderator: the volume of perceptually relevant information that is available in the mass media. Both dissonance-theoretic and motivated-reasoning formulations of partisan bias in political perception suggest that the av…

  • Issue Priming Revisited: Susceptible Voters and Detectable Effects

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 31

    It is widely claimed that campaign communications direct voter attention to the considerations that campaigns emphasize, a phenomenon termed ‘priming’. In two recent studies, however, Gabriel Lenz concludes that reanalysis of key instances of priming in the literature shows that priming of views on policy questions, or ‘issues’, is very rare. This article revisits issue priming during elections by incorporating individuals who are largely exclude…

  • Policy Attitudes in Institutional Context: Rules, Uncertainty, and the Mass Politics of Public Investment

    Open Access•Alan M Jacobs, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•American Journal of Political…•2017•Cited by: 56•References: 28

    This article examines the link between citizens’ policy attitudes and the institutional context in which policies are carried out. The article develops a theory of opinion formation toward policies that impose costs on citizens in order to invest in broadly valued social goods. In this framework, problems of agency loss and time inconsistency leave citizens uncertain about whether promised policy benefits will be delivered. Citizen support for pu…

  • Inequality and Electoral Accountability: Class-Biased Economic Voting in Comparative Perspective

    Timothy Hicks, Alan M Jacobs et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 41

    Do electorates hold governments accountable for the distribution of economic welfare? Building on the finding of “class-biased economic voting” in the United States, we examine how electorates in advanced democracies respond to alternative distributions of income gains and losses. Drawing on individual-level electoral data and aggregate election results across 15 countries, we examine whether lower- and middle-income voters defend their distribut…

  • Exploring Divergent Patterns in Racial Identity Profiles Between Caribbean Black American and African American Adolescents: The Links to Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Concerns

    Open Access•D Sanchez, Keisha L Bentley-Edwards et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Multicultural…•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 38

    Using cluster analyses, this study explored the relations among racial identity, perceived discrimination, and psychological concerns among 189 Caribbean Black American and African American adolescents. Findings showed that for all participants, less mature racial identity profiles were significantly related to perceived discrimination and psychological concerns. However, nuances in racial identity profiles between Caribbean Black American and Af…

  • The courts/parliament trade-off: Canadian attitudes on judicial influence in public policy

    Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth Goodyear‐grant et al.•ARTICLE•Commonwealth and Comparative…•2013•Cited by: 5•References: 15

    Do citizens have meaningful attitudes – i.e. enduring, subjectively important and psychologically consequential evaluative orientations – regarding the relative roles of courts and legislatures in resolving contentious issues of public policy? If so, what explains these preferences? Using data from the Canadian Election Study, the authors find that Canadians possess meaningful attitudes on what they term the ‘courts/parliament trade-off’. They al…

  • The Mediated Horserace: Campaign Polls and Poll Reporting

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Mark Pickup et al.•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2012•Cited by: 8•References: 28

    Although “horserace journalism” is thought to be central to contemporary election news coverage and has generated a great deal of criticism, there is no general model of the nature and dynamics of horserace journalism or “poll reporting.” This paper proposes and empirically evaluates such a model. The model builds on and extends John Zaller's “theory of media politics” to consider specifically what citizens demand from polls and what journalists …

  • Why Do Citizens Discount the Future? Public Opinion and the Timing of Policy Consequences

    Open Access•Alan M Jacobs, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2012•Cited by: 81•References: 43

    It is widely assumed that citizens are myopic, weighing policies’ short-term consequences more heavily than long-term outcomes. Yet no study of public opinion has directly examined whether or why the timing of future policy consequences shapes citizens’ policy attitudes. This article reports the results of an experiment designed to test for the presence and mechanisms of time-discounting in the mass public. The analysis yields evidence of signifi…

  • A structured observation of behavioral self-regulation and its contribution to kindergarten outcomes

    Claire Cameron Ponitz, Megan M Mcclelland et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2009•Cited by: 112•References: 11

    The authors examined a new assessment of behavioral regulation and contributions to achievement and teacher-rated classroom functioning in a sample (N = 343) of kindergarteners from 2 geographical sites in the United States. Behavioral regulation was measured with the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders (HTKS) task, a structured observation requiring children to perform the opposite of a dominant response to 4 different oral commands. Results revealed cons…

  • Public Opinion and Social Citizenship in Canada

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Lynda Erickson•ARTICLE•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 12

    Un thème important de la documentation sur les restrictions des politiques sociales d'État au Canada porte sur les idées dominantes concernant l'État providence, qui ont considérablement changé. Un aspect de cette dynamique qui a reçu peu d'attention empirique est l'opinion publique sur les politiques de l'État providence. Cet article se penche sur la dynamique et la structure de l'opinion au fil du temps en ce qui a trait aux « droits convention…

  • Welfare state structures and the structure of welfare state support: Attitudes towards social spending in Canada, 1993–2000

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Lynda Erickson•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2008•Cited by: 5•References: 44

    The comparative welfare state literature contends that different welfare state structures engender different structures of welfare state support. The argument is that social welfare regimes that distribute their benefits selectively tend to produce patterns of support graduated by the likelihood of accessing these selective (or ‘targeted’) social benefits, especially as indexed by social class. Where benefits are universally distributed, by contr…

  • Turnout and the party system in Canada, 1988-2004

    Open Access•Richard Johnston, Jamaal S Matthews et al.•ARTICLE•Electoral Studies•2007•Cited by: 26•References: 22

  • The Political Foundations of Support for Same-Sex Marriage in Canada

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2005•Cited by: 18•References: 29

    Public support for legal recognition of same-sex marriage increased markedly in Canada over the course of the 1990s. The argument of this paper is that a sequence of Supreme Court decisions in the realm of same-sex relationship recognition—and the legislative activity that followed as a result—played a pivotal role in shaping public opinion on this issue. It is argued that the impact of these institutions was twofold. First, by framing the issue …

  • The Challenge of Municipal Voting: Vancouver 2002

    Open Access•Fred Cutler, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2005•Cited by: 40•References: 22

    As compared with federal and provincial elections, municipal elections in Canada present voters with challenges of informational quantity and quality. These unique challenges have implications for the psychological structure of citizens' voting calculus. Using a survey of voters conducted after the city of Vancouver civic election of 2002, we estimate a model of vote choice for mayor. We show that voters respond to the different context in predic…

  • A structured observation of behavioral self-regulation and its contribution to kindergarten outcomes

    Claire Cameron Ponitz, Megan M Mcclelland et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2009•Cited by: 112•References: 11

    The authors examined a new assessment of behavioral regulation and contributions to achievement and teacher-rated classroom functioning in a sample (N = 343) of kindergarteners from 2 geographical sites in the United States. Behavioral regulation was measured with the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders (HTKS) task, a structured observation requiring children to perform the opposite of a dominant response to 4 different oral commands. Results revealed cons…

  • Why Do Citizens Discount the Future? Public Opinion and the Timing of Policy Consequences

    Open Access•Alan M Jacobs, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2012•Cited by: 81•References: 43

    It is widely assumed that citizens are myopic, weighing policies’ short-term consequences more heavily than long-term outcomes. Yet no study of public opinion has directly examined whether or why the timing of future policy consequences shapes citizens’ policy attitudes. This article reports the results of an experiment designed to test for the presence and mechanisms of time-discounting in the mass public. The analysis yields evidence of signifi…

  • Policy Attitudes in Institutional Context: Rules, Uncertainty, and the Mass Politics of Public Investment

    Open Access•Alan M Jacobs, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•American Journal of Political…•2017•Cited by: 56•References: 28

    This article examines the link between citizens’ policy attitudes and the institutional context in which policies are carried out. The article develops a theory of opinion formation toward policies that impose costs on citizens in order to invest in broadly valued social goods. In this framework, problems of agency loss and time inconsistency leave citizens uncertain about whether promised policy benefits will be delivered. Citizen support for pu…

  • The Challenge of Municipal Voting: Vancouver 2002

    Open Access•Fred Cutler, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2005•Cited by: 40•References: 22

    As compared with federal and provincial elections, municipal elections in Canada present voters with challenges of informational quantity and quality. These unique challenges have implications for the psychological structure of citizens' voting calculus. Using a survey of voters conducted after the city of Vancouver civic election of 2002, we estimate a model of vote choice for mayor. We show that voters respond to the different context in predic…

  • Turnout and the party system in Canada, 1988-2004

    Open Access•Richard Johnston, Jamaal S Matthews et al.•ARTICLE•Electoral Studies•2007•Cited by: 26•References: 22

  • The Political Foundations of Support for Same-Sex Marriage in Canada

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2005•Cited by: 18•References: 29

    Public support for legal recognition of same-sex marriage increased markedly in Canada over the course of the 1990s. The argument of this paper is that a sequence of Supreme Court decisions in the realm of same-sex relationship recognition—and the legislative activity that followed as a result—played a pivotal role in shaping public opinion on this issue. It is argued that the impact of these institutions was twofold. First, by framing the issue …

  • Whose News? Class-Biased Economic Reporting in the United States

    Open Access•Alan M Jacobs, Jamaal S Matthews et al.•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2021•Cited by: 13•References: 42

    There is substantial evidence that voters' choices are shaped by assessments of the state of the economy and that these assessments, in turn, are influenced by the news. But how does the economic news track the welfare of different income groups in an era of rising inequality? Whose economy does the news cover? Drawing on a large new dataset of US news content, we demonstrate that the tone of the economic news strongly and disproportionately trac…

  • Inequality and Electoral Accountability: Class-Biased Economic Voting in Comparative Perspective

    Timothy Hicks, Alan M Jacobs et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 41

    Do electorates hold governments accountable for the distribution of economic welfare? Building on the finding of “class-biased economic voting” in the United States, we examine how electorates in advanced democracies respond to alternative distributions of income gains and losses. Drawing on individual-level electoral data and aggregate election results across 15 countries, we examine whether lower- and middle-income voters defend their distribut…

  • Exploring Divergent Patterns in Racial Identity Profiles Between Caribbean Black American and African American Adolescents: The Links to Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Concerns

    Open Access•D Sanchez, Keisha L Bentley-Edwards et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Multicultural…•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 38

    Using cluster analyses, this study explored the relations among racial identity, perceived discrimination, and psychological concerns among 189 Caribbean Black American and African American adolescents. Findings showed that for all participants, less mature racial identity profiles were significantly related to perceived discrimination and psychological concerns. However, nuances in racial identity profiles between Caribbean Black American and Af…

  • The Mediated Horserace: Campaign Polls and Poll Reporting

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Mark Pickup et al.•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2012•Cited by: 8•References: 28

    Although “horserace journalism” is thought to be central to contemporary election news coverage and has generated a great deal of criticism, there is no general model of the nature and dynamics of horserace journalism or “poll reporting.” This paper proposes and empirically evaluates such a model. The model builds on and extends John Zaller's “theory of media politics” to consider specifically what citizens demand from polls and what journalists …

  • Issue Priming Revisited: Susceptible Voters and Detectable Effects

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 31

    It is widely claimed that campaign communications direct voter attention to the considerations that campaigns emphasize, a phenomenon termed ‘priming’. In two recent studies, however, Gabriel Lenz concludes that reanalysis of key instances of priming in the literature shows that priming of views on policy questions, or ‘issues’, is very rare. This article revisits issue priming during elections by incorporating individuals who are largely exclude…

  • Racial Spillover in Political Attitudes: Generalizing to a New Leader and Context

    Open Access•Randy Besco, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•Political Behavior•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 23

  • Conceptualizing Municipal Elections: The Case of Toronto 2018

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, R Michael Mcgregor et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 32

    Since Angus Campbell and colleagues first introduced the “levels of conceptualization” (LoC) framework as a measure of political sophistication, a number of scholars have applied the approach to subsequent American national elections. In this study, we present the first application of the LoC framework to a municipal election, and focus upon the 2018 Toronto mayoral race. After describing the method and data we use to adapt the framework to this …

  • Unmasking Accountability: Judging Performance in an Interdependent World

    Austin Hart, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 43

    As local conditions come to reflect extralocal forces, signals of government competence grow more obscure. Yet we know relatively little about how voters evaluate incumbent performance in the context of interdependence. We use a series of simulated voting tasks to examine three theoretical possibilities: blind retrospection, rational discounting, and benchmarking. Across five experiments requiring "voters" to judge performance in a setting that o…

  • The courts/parliament trade-off: Canadian attitudes on judicial influence in public policy

    Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth Goodyear‐grant et al.•ARTICLE•Commonwealth and Comparative…•2013•Cited by: 5•References: 15

    Do citizens have meaningful attitudes – i.e. enduring, subjectively important and psychologically consequential evaluative orientations – regarding the relative roles of courts and legislatures in resolving contentious issues of public policy? If so, what explains these preferences? Using data from the Canadian Election Study, the authors find that Canadians possess meaningful attitudes on what they term the ‘courts/parliament trade-off’. They al…

  • Welfare state structures and the structure of welfare state support: Attitudes towards social spending in Canada, 1993–2000

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Lynda Erickson•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2008•Cited by: 5•References: 44

    The comparative welfare state literature contends that different welfare state structures engender different structures of welfare state support. The argument is that social welfare regimes that distribute their benefits selectively tend to produce patterns of support graduated by the likelihood of accessing these selective (or ‘targeted’) social benefits, especially as indexed by social class. Where benefits are universally distributed, by contr…

  • Public Opinion and Social Citizenship in Canada

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Lynda Erickson•ARTICLE•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 12

    Un thème important de la documentation sur les restrictions des politiques sociales d'État au Canada porte sur les idées dominantes concernant l'État providence, qui ont considérablement changé. Un aspect de cette dynamique qui a reçu peu d'attention empirique est l'opinion publique sur les politiques de l'État providence. Cet article se penche sur la dynamique et la structure de l'opinion au fil du temps en ce qui a trait aux « droits convention…

  • The Canadian Municipal Election Study

    Open Access•R Michael Mcgregor, Cameron D Anderson et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Political Science•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 15

    It is in this context of rapid growth of the field of local political behaviour that we introduce the Canadian Municipal Election Study (CMES) dataset. With a total sample size of 14,458, the dataset includes survey responses from voters and non-voters in eight of Canada’s largest cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, London, Mississauga, Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City. Cities were chosen on the basis of size, contextual variation, and instit…

  • Rational Learners or Impervious Partisans? Economic News and Partisan Bias in Economic Perceptions

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Mark Pickup et al.•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 37

    Decades of research have established the direct influence of partisanship on voter perception of a host of real-world conditions. Even so, numerous factors have been found to moderate this “partisan bias.” We examine one plausible moderator: the volume of perceptually relevant information that is available in the mass media. Both dissonance-theoretic and motivated-reasoning formulations of partisan bias in political perception suggest that the av…

  • Levels of Conceptualization and Municipal Politics: Replication in a New Context

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, R Michael Mcgregor et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Political Science•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    Since Angus Campbell and colleagues introduced the Levels of Conceptualization (LoC) framework as a measure of political sophistication, only a very small number of scholars have applied this approach to understanding how electors view political actors. In 2008, Michael Lewis-Beck and colleagues replicated this foundational study and found similar results using much more recent data on American national elections. In this brief research report, w…

  • The Political Foundations of Support for Same-Sex Marriage in Canada

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2005•Cited by: 18•References: 29

    Public support for legal recognition of same-sex marriage increased markedly in Canada over the course of the 1990s. The argument of this paper is that a sequence of Supreme Court decisions in the realm of same-sex relationship recognition—and the legislative activity that followed as a result—played a pivotal role in shaping public opinion on this issue. It is argued that the impact of these institutions was twofold. First, by framing the issue …

  • The Challenge of Municipal Voting: Vancouver 2002

    Open Access•Fred Cutler, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2005•Cited by: 40•References: 22

    As compared with federal and provincial elections, municipal elections in Canada present voters with challenges of informational quantity and quality. These unique challenges have implications for the psychological structure of citizens' voting calculus. Using a survey of voters conducted after the city of Vancouver civic election of 2002, we estimate a model of vote choice for mayor. We show that voters respond to the different context in predic…

  • Turnout and the party system in Canada, 1988-2004

    Open Access•Richard Johnston, Jamaal S Matthews et al.•ARTICLE•Electoral Studies•2007•Cited by: 26•References: 22

  • Public Opinion and Social Citizenship in Canada

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Lynda Erickson•ARTICLE•Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue…•2008•Cited by: 4•References: 12

    Un thème important de la documentation sur les restrictions des politiques sociales d'État au Canada porte sur les idées dominantes concernant l'État providence, qui ont considérablement changé. Un aspect de cette dynamique qui a reçu peu d'attention empirique est l'opinion publique sur les politiques de l'État providence. Cet article se penche sur la dynamique et la structure de l'opinion au fil du temps en ce qui a trait aux « droits convention…

  • Welfare state structures and the structure of welfare state support: Attitudes towards social spending in Canada, 1993–2000

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Lynda Erickson•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2008•Cited by: 5•References: 44

    The comparative welfare state literature contends that different welfare state structures engender different structures of welfare state support. The argument is that social welfare regimes that distribute their benefits selectively tend to produce patterns of support graduated by the likelihood of accessing these selective (or ‘targeted’) social benefits, especially as indexed by social class. Where benefits are universally distributed, by contr…

  • A structured observation of behavioral self-regulation and its contribution to kindergarten outcomes

    Claire Cameron Ponitz, Megan M Mcclelland et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2009•Cited by: 112•References: 11

    The authors examined a new assessment of behavioral regulation and contributions to achievement and teacher-rated classroom functioning in a sample (N = 343) of kindergarteners from 2 geographical sites in the United States. Behavioral regulation was measured with the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders (HTKS) task, a structured observation requiring children to perform the opposite of a dominant response to 4 different oral commands. Results revealed cons…

  • The Mediated Horserace: Campaign Polls and Poll Reporting

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Mark Pickup et al.•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2012•Cited by: 8•References: 28

    Although “horserace journalism” is thought to be central to contemporary election news coverage and has generated a great deal of criticism, there is no general model of the nature and dynamics of horserace journalism or “poll reporting.” This paper proposes and empirically evaluates such a model. The model builds on and extends John Zaller's “theory of media politics” to consider specifically what citizens demand from polls and what journalists …

  • Why Do Citizens Discount the Future? Public Opinion and the Timing of Policy Consequences

    Open Access•Alan M Jacobs, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2012•Cited by: 81•References: 43

    It is widely assumed that citizens are myopic, weighing policies’ short-term consequences more heavily than long-term outcomes. Yet no study of public opinion has directly examined whether or why the timing of future policy consequences shapes citizens’ policy attitudes. This article reports the results of an experiment designed to test for the presence and mechanisms of time-discounting in the mass public. The analysis yields evidence of signifi…

  • The courts/parliament trade-off: Canadian attitudes on judicial influence in public policy

    Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth Goodyear‐grant et al.•ARTICLE•Commonwealth and Comparative…•2013•Cited by: 5•References: 15

    Do citizens have meaningful attitudes – i.e. enduring, subjectively important and psychologically consequential evaluative orientations – regarding the relative roles of courts and legislatures in resolving contentious issues of public policy? If so, what explains these preferences? Using data from the Canadian Election Study, the authors find that Canadians possess meaningful attitudes on what they term the ‘courts/parliament trade-off’. They al…

  • Inequality and Electoral Accountability: Class-Biased Economic Voting in Comparative Perspective

    Timothy Hicks, Alan M Jacobs et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 41

    Do electorates hold governments accountable for the distribution of economic welfare? Building on the finding of “class-biased economic voting” in the United States, we examine how electorates in advanced democracies respond to alternative distributions of income gains and losses. Drawing on individual-level electoral data and aggregate election results across 15 countries, we examine whether lower- and middle-income voters defend their distribut…

  • Exploring Divergent Patterns in Racial Identity Profiles Between Caribbean Black American and African American Adolescents: The Links to Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Concerns

    Open Access•D Sanchez, Keisha L Bentley-Edwards et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Multicultural…•2016•Cited by: 8•References: 38

    Using cluster analyses, this study explored the relations among racial identity, perceived discrimination, and psychological concerns among 189 Caribbean Black American and African American adolescents. Findings showed that for all participants, less mature racial identity profiles were significantly related to perceived discrimination and psychological concerns. However, nuances in racial identity profiles between Caribbean Black American and Af…

  • Policy Attitudes in Institutional Context: Rules, Uncertainty, and the Mass Politics of Public Investment

    Open Access•Alan M Jacobs, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•American Journal of Political…•2017•Cited by: 56•References: 28

    This article examines the link between citizens’ policy attitudes and the institutional context in which policies are carried out. The article develops a theory of opinion formation toward policies that impose costs on citizens in order to invest in broadly valued social goods. In this framework, problems of agency loss and time inconsistency leave citizens uncertain about whether promised policy benefits will be delivered. Citizen support for pu…

  • Rational Learners or Impervious Partisans? Economic News and Partisan Bias in Economic Perceptions

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, Mark Pickup et al.•ARTICLE•Canadian Journal of Political…•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 37

    Decades of research have established the direct influence of partisanship on voter perception of a host of real-world conditions. Even so, numerous factors have been found to moderate this “partisan bias.” We examine one plausible moderator: the volume of perceptually relevant information that is available in the mass media. Both dissonance-theoretic and motivated-reasoning formulations of partisan bias in political perception suggest that the av…

  • Issue Priming Revisited: Susceptible Voters and Detectable Effects

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 31

    It is widely claimed that campaign communications direct voter attention to the considerations that campaigns emphasize, a phenomenon termed ‘priming’. In two recent studies, however, Gabriel Lenz concludes that reanalysis of key instances of priming in the literature shows that priming of views on policy questions, or ‘issues’, is very rare. This article revisits issue priming during elections by incorporating individuals who are largely exclude…

  • Levels of Conceptualization and Municipal Politics: Replication in a New Context

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, R Michael Mcgregor et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Political Science•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    Since Angus Campbell and colleagues introduced the Levels of Conceptualization (LoC) framework as a measure of political sophistication, only a very small number of scholars have applied this approach to understanding how electors view political actors. In 2008, Michael Lewis-Beck and colleagues replicated this foundational study and found similar results using much more recent data on American national elections. In this brief research report, w…

  • The Canadian Municipal Election Study

    Open Access•R Michael Mcgregor, Cameron D Anderson et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Political Science•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 15

    It is in this context of rapid growth of the field of local political behaviour that we introduce the Canadian Municipal Election Study (CMES) dataset. With a total sample size of 14,458, the dataset includes survey responses from voters and non-voters in eight of Canada’s largest cities: Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, London, Mississauga, Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City. Cities were chosen on the basis of size, contextual variation, and instit…

  • Whose News? Class-Biased Economic Reporting in the United States

    Open Access•Alan M Jacobs, Jamaal S Matthews et al.•ARTICLE•American Political Science Review•2021•Cited by: 13•References: 42

    There is substantial evidence that voters' choices are shaped by assessments of the state of the economy and that these assessments, in turn, are influenced by the news. But how does the economic news track the welfare of different income groups in an era of rising inequality? Whose economy does the news cover? Drawing on a large new dataset of US news content, we demonstrate that the tone of the economic news strongly and disproportionately trac…

  • Conceptualizing Municipal Elections: The Case of Toronto 2018

    Open Access•Jamaal S Matthews, R Michael Mcgregor et al.•ARTICLE•Urban Affairs Review•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 32

    Since Angus Campbell and colleagues first introduced the “levels of conceptualization” (LoC) framework as a measure of political sophistication, a number of scholars have applied the approach to subsequent American national elections. In this study, we present the first application of the LoC framework to a municipal election, and focus upon the 2018 Toronto mayoral race. After describing the method and data we use to adapt the framework to this …

  • Unmasking Accountability: Judging Performance in an Interdependent World

    Austin Hart, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 43

    As local conditions come to reflect extralocal forces, signals of government competence grow more obscure. Yet we know relatively little about how voters evaluate incumbent performance in the context of interdependence. We use a series of simulated voting tasks to examine three theoretical possibilities: blind retrospection, rational discounting, and benchmarking. Across five experiments requiring "voters" to judge performance in a setting that o…

  • Unequal Democracies: Public Policy, Responsiveness, and Redistribution in an Era of Rising Economic Inequality

    Open Access•Ruben B Mathisen, Wouter Schakel et al.•BOOK•Unequal Democracies•2023

    While economic inequality has risen in every affluent democracy in North America and Western Europe, the last three decades have also been characterized by falling or stagnating levels of state-led economic redistribution. Why have democratically accountable governments not done more to distribute top-income shares to citizens with low- and middle-income? Unequal Democracies offers answers to this question, bringing together contributions that fo…

  • Racial Spillover in Political Attitudes: Generalizing to a New Leader and Context

    Open Access•Randy Besco, Jamaal S Matthews•ARTICLE•Political Behavior•2023•Cited by: 5•References: 23

  • The Nonconsequences of Covid-19 on Left–Right Ideological Beliefs

    Jack Blumenau, Timothy Hicks et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Politics•2024•References: 31

  • When partisanship and technocratic credibility collide: Mass attitudes and central bank endorsements of fiscal policy in Canada and the USA

    Open Access•Kyle Hanniman, Olivier Jacques et al.•ARTICLE•Socio-Economic Review•2024•References: 45

    Developments over the past decade have made it increasingly difficult for central banks to achieve their macroeconomic objectives without the help of fiscal policy, resulting in some surprisingly public efforts from central banks to influence the size and direction of government budget balances. But do voters find central bank appeals persuasive and what are the reputational consequences of engaging the public on this sensitive issue, particularl…

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