Executive Power in Crisis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3537784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth Lowande (0000-0002-3672-3652, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Jon C Rogowski (0000-0003-4547-3832, University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1406-1423 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055421000447 |
| OpenAlex | W3166013764 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 41 |
Major crises can threaten political regimes by empowering demagogues and promoting authoritarian rule. While existing research argues that national emergencies weaken formal checks on executive authority and increase public appetites for strong leadership, no research evaluates whether crises increase mass support for the president's institutional authority. We study this question in the context of the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic with an experiment embedded in a national survey of more than 8,000 U.S. adults. We find no evidence that the public evaluated policies differently if they were implemented via unilateral power rather than through the legislative process, nor did the severity of the pandemic at either the state, local, or individual levels moderate evaluations of executive power. Instead, individuals' partisan and ideological views were consistently strong predictors of policy attitudes. Perhaps paradoxically, our results suggest that elite and mass polarization limit the opportunity for crises to promote public acceptance of strengthened executive authority
Authoritarianism · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Elite · Executive power · Geography · Ideology · Legislature · Polarization (electrochemistry · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics
The democratic ideal under stress
Mass Polarization Across Time and Space
Mass receptiveness to unconstrained emergency legislation during crisis
Preemptive Action
Unilateral Power for Saving Lives
Polls and Precision Strikes
Legitimate Multilevel Crisis Management from the Perspective of Human Rights, Minorities, and Non-Discrimination
Types of pandemic-induced psychological distress, clarity of responsibility, and support for incumbents
The contestation of state authority
Public Response to Trump’s Unilateral Policy Making
Executive–Legislative Policymaking Under Crisis
Self-reported political ideology
Covid-19 pandemic and local executive-opposition institutional relations
Governments and parliaments in a state of emergency
Authoritarian Information Gathering amid Crisis
Risk and Preferences for Government Healthcare Spending
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Law in Times of Crisis
In Time of War
The Casualty Gap
The Relation between Media Consumption and Misinformation at the Outset of the Sars-CoV-2 Pandemic in the US
Who Leads Whom?
The Myth of the Imperial Presidency
Constitutional Dictatorship
Truman and the Seizure of Steel
Validating the demographic, political, psychological, and experimental results obtained from a new source of online survey respondents
Public Perception of the Presidential Toolkit
Civil Liberties vs. Security
Threat as a factor in authoritarianism
The President
How Right-Leaning Media Coverage of Covid-19 Facilitated the Spread of Misinformation in the Early Stages of the Pandemic in the U.S
Assessing the President
Emergencies and the Presidency
Unilateral Powers, Public Opinion, and the Presidency
How Citizens Respond to Combat Casualties
Presidential Challenges to Judicial Supremacy and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning
How Policy and Procedure Shape Citizens' Evaluations of Senators
Novel Coronavirus, Old Partisanship
Why Do Partisan Media Polarize Viewers
Constitutional Qualms or Politics as Usual? The Factors Shaping Public Support for Unilateral Action
Authoritarianism, Threat, and Americans’ Support for the War on Terror
Threat, Anxiety, and Support of Antiterrorism Policies
The Public Cost of Unilateral Action
Passing the President's Program
Threatening times, "strong" presidential popular vote winners, and the victory margin, 1824–1964
Pandemics and Partisanship
Does Public Opinion Constrain Presidential Unilateralism
Consensus and Ideology in American Politics
Economic Shocks and Democratic Vulnerabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |