Partisan Cheerleading and Political Accountability: Investigating the Relationship between Subjective Evaluations and Objective Facts

• In Event: Partisanship, Polarization, & Public Opinion

Brief Overview

Certain measures of public opinion often used to predict support for incumbents -- such as views of the economy -- are vulnerable to "partisan cheerleading" in which respondents respond expressively to cheerlead their co-partisan elites.

Authors

• James Bisbee, Vanderbilt University

• Jan Zilinsky, Technical University of Munich