Breaking it is one thing, fixing it is another
Responsibility attributions and support for the U.S. Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12007572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anke Grosskopf (Long Island University, corresponding author), Nancy Frye (0000-0003-2134-3777, Long Island University) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-32 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Social Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-3319 • E-ISSN: 1873-5355 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.soscij.2011.07.001 |
| OpenAlex | W2036094335 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
When do attributions of responsibility predict support for governmental institutions? Data from an online survey of 508 United States citizens examining attributions for their most salient national problem revealed associations between attributions and evaluations of the Presidency, Supreme Court, and Congress. With respect to the Presidency, causal attributions were related to more negative evaluations, while resolution attributions were related to more positive evaluations. This was especially true for conservative participants. With respect to the Supreme Court, causal attributions were related to more negative evaluations. With respect to Congress, there was an association between causal attributions and negative evaluations, but only for those with a low level of resolution attributions. Results are discussed in terms of the political climate and differences in institutional expectations
Attribution · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Salient · Supreme court · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Responsible Electorate
Models of helping and coping.
Who is Responsible? Toward a Social Psychology of Responsibility Attribution
Is Anyone Responsible?
The psychology of interpersonal relations.
Congress as Public Enemy
Online Data Collection
Threat Inflation and the Failure of the Marketplace of Ideas
What determines public support of obesity prevention
The Responsible Electorate
Political Alienation and Public Satisfaction with Police Services
Attributional Mediation of In-Group Bias
The Legal Cultures of Europe
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
Framing Responsibility for Political Issues
Short-Term Fluctuations in U.S. Voting Behavior, 1896–1964
Institutional Context and the Assignment of Political Responsibility
Ideological Placements and Political Judgments of Government Institutions
An Attributional Model of Economic Voting
Causal Attribution and Economic Voting in American Congressional Elections
Triangulating Political Responsibility
How does government performance influence political support
How Citizens Think about National Issues
Who's Responsible for the Economy? The Formation and Consequences of Responsibility Attributions
The impact of attributions in marriage
The case for motivated reasoning
The Role of Blame in Collective Action
An Alternative Conceptualization of Political Tolerance
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |