On the Meaning & Measurement of Mood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James A Stimson (Stimson Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 141 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 23-34 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_00171 |
| OpenAlex | W2026799293 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 5 |
Public policy mood, a concept now more than twenty years old, is the measure of left/right preferences over policy choices in American politics. In this essay, I comment on the theoretical need for such a measure and discuss the strategy for estimation. I produce the measure itself for the years from 1952 to 2011. Then I take on the question of how many dimensions of such operational ideology exist. I find two, which is far from novel. But unlike much previous work, my own included, the present analysis utilizes prior theoretical information about the content of the dimensions in order to interpret them. I find the conventional two dimensions, economic and cultural, to be very highly correlated. A final section explores the thermostatic properties of mood
Economics · Epistemology · Ideology · Meaning (existential · Measure (data warehouse · Mood · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Work (physics · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
Bringing Emotions into the Study of Responsiveness
Members apart
The Invisible Primary in an Agent-Based Model
Feeling It/Not Feeling It
Policy Ideology in European Mass Publics, 1981–2016
Assessing the Structure of Policy Preferences
China’s Ideological Spectrum
America’s Liberal Social Climate and Trends
The Political Implications of American Concerns About Economic Inequality
Dynamic Estimation of Latent Opinion Using a Hierarchical Group-Level IRT Model
Legislative organization and ideal-point bias
Measuring Public Opinion with Surveys
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |