Do Voters or Issue Publics Hold Politicians Accountable for Policy Decisions? It Depends When You Ask

• In Event: Experimental Examinations of Accountability and Representation

Brief Overview

In surveys and survey experiments, voters routinely say and act as if they do so. However, careful natural and field experiments usually fail to find evidence of policy accountability. We help resolve the contradiction between these sets of results.

Authors

• David E. Broockman, Stanford University

• Alejandra Gimenez Aldridge, Stanford University