Does the Public Hold Governors Accountable for Policy Outcomes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6339641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Wolak (0000-0003-4742-7442, Michigan State University, corresponding author), Srinivas C Parinandi (0000-0001-5863-2965, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA), Srinivas Parinandi |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1051-1064 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10659129211041044 |
| OpenAlex | W3204691395 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 60 |
What are the origins of gubernatorial popularity? Past studies debate whether governors are substantively evaluated based on their performance in office, with some arguing that the origins of approval may be idiosyncratic to particular governors. These studies typically consider gubernatorial approval in a handful of states or patterns of approval in the aggregate. We improve on this research by drawing on a richer data source: the Cooperative Congressional Election Study. We consider both individual-level and state-level explanations of gubernatorial popularity with a sample of over 300,000 respondents across the 50 states from 2006 to 2018. We explore how party, policy outcomes, and government performance shape levels of gubernatorial approval. We show that people evaluate governors based on the ideological direction of policy outcomes in the states. When state policy outcomes align with their ideological preferences, people report higher levels of approval for the job performance of their governor. We also confirm the importance of party and state economic performance for gubernatorial approval
Economics · Government (linguistics · Governor · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Public economics · Public policy · Public relations · Sample (material · State (computer science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration
The Power of American Governors
The Increasingly United States
Politics in the American States
Democracy for Realists
U.S. State and Local Public Policies in 2006
Gubernatorial popularity in three states
The Polls
A Note on the Dynamics and Idiosyncrasies of Gubernatorial Popularity
Should We Measure Professionalism with an Index? A Note on Theory and Practice in State Legislative Professionalism Research
Nationalization in U.S. Senate and Gubernatorial Elections
Gubernatorial, Senatorial, and State-level Presidential Job Approval
Public Approval ofU.S. State Legislatures
National and Local Forces in State Politics
Constituents’ Responses to Congressional Roll‐Call Voting
Incremental Democracy
Presidents, Governors, and Electoral Accountability
Professionalization and Public Opinion of State Legislatures
Incumbent Popularity and Vote Choice in Gubernatorial Elections
Party and Policy in the States
Are Governors Responsible for the State Economy? Partisanship, Blame, and Divided Federalism
Relative Unemployment and Gubernatorial Popularity
American Governors and their Constituents
Political Events in a Model of Gubernatorial Approval
Accountability in a Federal System
Gubernatorial Approval and Administrative Influence
Fiscal Transparency, Gubernatorial Approval, and the Scale of Government
Relative Unemployment, Political Information, and the Job Approval Ratings of State Governors and Legislatures
What Determines a Governor's Popularity
Governors and Partisan Polarization in the Federal Arena
Do Governors Matter? Budgeting Rules and the Politics of State Policymaking
Comparing Gubernatorial and Senatorial Elections
Life Is Not Fair
The Effects of Political Representation on the Electoral Advantages of House Incumbents
Executive Power and Judicial Deference
Explaining Public Confidence in the Branches of State Government
FDR to Clinton, Mueller to
Retrospective Voting in Gubernatorial Elections
Experts, Amateurs, and Bureaucratic Influence in the American States
State and National Factors in Gubernatorial and Senatorial Elections
The Nature of Party Governance
The Democratic Deficit in the States
The Dynamics of State Policy Liberalism, 1936–2014
Party Control and Policy Change
Economic and Referendum Voting
The Salience of American State Politics
The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures
Noisy Retrospection
Policy Preferences and Policy Change
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |