Exogenous shocks and misattribution of responsibility for economic performanceresults from survey experiments

Resumo

Recent models of economic voting assume that citizens can discount exogenous factors when assessing government's economic performance. Yet there is evidence that Latin American voters do not behave in such way, and attribute to presidents outcomes that are beyond their control. This paper presents three survey experiments designed to explore mechanisms that could potentially correct such misattribution, and therefore contribute to debiasing individual behavior towards government evaluation. Our results provide individual-level evidence of the misattribution found in aggregate studies of electorate behavior, and reinforce psychologist's skepticism towards prospects of mental decontamination, as we found very scant evidence that providing information, raising awareness, or increasing motivation to correct biases infuenced individual's evaluation of president's performance.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2015

Instituição

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Não informado

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/14241

Temas

EconomiaDesenvolvimento Econômico

Palavras-chave

Ciência políticaEleitoresDesenvolvimento econômicoPolítica econômica