What drives perceptions of partisan cooperation?

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dc.citation.firstpage888en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber4en_US
dc.citation.journalTitlePolitical Science Research and Methodsen_US
dc.citation.lastpage896en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber12en_US
dc.contributor.authorSantoso, Lie Philipen_US
dc.contributor.authorStevenson, Randolph T.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWeschle, Simonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-20T15:52:06Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-11-20T15:52:06Zen_US
dc.date.issued2024en_US
dc.description.abstractWhat drives voters' perceptions of partisan cooperation? In this note, we investigate whether voters have accurate beliefs about which parties regularly cooperate with one another, and whether these beliefs follow the real-time portrait of cooperation and conflict between parties that is reported in the news. We combine original survey data of voters' perceptions of party cooperation in four countries over two time periods with a measure of parties' public relationships as reported by the media. We find that voters' perceptions of cooperation and conflict among parties do reflect actual patterns of interactions. This pattern holds even after controlling for policy differences between parties as well as joint cabinet membership. Furthermore, we show that the impact of contemporary events on cooperation perceptions is most pronounced for voters who monitor the political news more carefully. Our findings have important implications for partisan cooperation and mass–elite linkages. Specifically, we find that contrary to the usual finding that voters are generally uninformed about politics, voters hold broadly accurate beliefs about the patterns of partisan cooperation, and importantly, these views track changes in relevant news. This reflects positively on the masses' capacities to infer parties' behaviors.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSantoso, L. P., Stevenson, R. T., & Weschle, S. (2024). What drives perceptions of partisan cooperation? Political Science Research and Methods, 12(4), 888–896. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2023.20en_US
dc.identifier.digitalwhat-drives-perceptions-of-partisan-cooperationen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2023.20en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/118065en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subject.keywordPartisan Cooperationen_US
dc.subject.keywordPublic Opinionen_US
dc.subject.keywordMass Mediaen_US
dc.subject.keywordHabitual News Receptionen_US
dc.titleWhat drives perceptions of partisan cooperation?en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationpublisher versionen_US
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