Deficit Attention Disorder: Partisan-Motivated Reasoning About Government Overspending

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dc.contributor.authorKane, John V.
dc.contributor.authorAnson, Ian G.
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-04T20:35:32Z
dc.date.available2021-01-04T20:35:32Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-30
dc.description.abstractGovernment overspending remains a prominent concern in American politics. Yet, despite the burgeoning literature on partisan-motivated reasoning (PMR), we know little about the extent to which such concern arises from partisan considerations. We advance extant literature by uncovering a novel means by which citizens reason about deficits in a partisan-motivated fashion—i.e., by shifting the importance of the issue. Leveraging pre-registered experimental and observational studies, we find that partisans systematically adjust the importance of government overspending based upon which party occupies the presidency. Further, this proclivity to engage in PMR does not require explicit cues from elites, is symmetrical across parties, and appears to function both to protect one’s own party and rebuke the opposing party. Lastly, in a large-scale text analysis of transcripts from televised partisan media, we again find strong evidence of PMR on the issue of government overspending, though primarily in conservative media.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/article-details/5fc0947cf9fdb80017e21442en_US
dc.genrejournal articles preprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2ak5x-xofi
dc.identifier.citationKane, John V.; Anson, Ian G.; Deficit Attention Disorder: Partisan-Motivated Reasoning About Government Overspending; Public Opinion and Voting Behavior (2020); https://preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/article-details/5fc0947cf9fdb80017e21442en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.33774/apsa-2020-nqpr9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/20277
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Political Science
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.subjectpartisanshipen_US
dc.subjectmotivated reasoningen_US
dc.subjectdebten_US
dc.subjectdeficiten_US
dc.subjectpresidencyen_US
dc.titleDeficit Attention Disorder: Partisan-Motivated Reasoning About Government Overspendingen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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