Examining the Dominance of Partisan Bias over Geographic Bias within Citizen Evaluations of Public Policy through Survey Experiments

• In Event: Partisan Bias, Voters' Evaluations, and Public Opinon Formation

Brief Overview

This paper examines the influence of partisan and geographic biases in citizen evaluations of policy. We find that, Republican respondents favor partisan heuristics and ignore conflicting geographic affinities when evaluating policies.

Authors

• Joshua Len Meyer-Gutbrod, University of South Carolina

• Daniel Gomez, University of California-Santa Barbara