Collaborative Research: Americans' Response to the Economic Crisis: Public Attitudes toward Social Policies

合作研究：美国人对经济危机的反应：公众对社会政策的态度

• 批准号: 0961536
• 负责人: Jeff Manza
• 金额: $ 3.87万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0961536&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Americans; Response; Economic

SES-0960960Ernest BrooksIndiana UniversitySES-0961536Jeff ManzaNew York UniversityHow does the American public respond to economic and political change in the 21st century? Did the ongoing economic crisis affect voters' policy preferences? And have the crisis and legislative responses by the Obama administration generated more (or less?) support for government interventions when it comes to social welfare, taxes, and national security? This collaborative research seeks to develop answers to these questions. The project does so through a new national survey to be conducted in 2010: The Survey of American Policy Attitudes toward the Crisis (SAPAC). This survey uses experimental methods to gauge the dynamics of policy attitude formation. The data collection coincides with a far-reaching economic downturn (and set of legislative conflicts) that are mechanisms potentially exerting pressure toward opinion change. The survey experiments will offer results with which to adjudicate two competing views of how public opinion is formed during times of crisis. The economic approach views public opinion as a self-regulating system in which environmental and policy changes continually exert pressure toward shifts in public attitudes. A second approach sees mass opinion as more fundamentally shaped by pre-existing social forces and ideological biases. This approach anticipates greater resistance to change pressures, and also quite different responses to such pressures among such key groups as liberals and conservatives, and middle and working-class Americans. Broader Impacts In addition to advancing scholarship on the dynamics of opinion formation, the 2010 SAPAC survey will also make possible a broad, over-time portrait of how American policy attitudes are currently evolving. This is because the 2010 data collection will directly extend earlier surveys we fielded in 2007 and 2009. In looking at questions concerning social welfare, taxes, and national security, this research brings into focus issues of lasting importance to Americans in the 21st century.

印第安纳大学欧内斯特·布鲁克斯纽约大学杰夫·曼扎美国公众如何应对21世纪的经济和政治变化？目前的经济危机是否影响了选民的政策偏好？奥巴马政府的危机和立法回应是否产生了更多(或更少)？在社会福利、税收和国家安全方面支持政府干预？这项合作研究试图找到这些问题的答案。该项目通过将于2010年进行的一项新的全国调查做到这一点：美国对危机的政策态度调查(SAPAC)。本调查使用实验方法来测量政策态度形成的动力。数据收集恰逢影响深远的经济低迷(以及一系列立法冲突)，这些机制可能会对观点改变施加压力。调查实验将提供结果，用来判断危机时期公众舆论是如何形成的两种相互矛盾的观点。经济学方法将公众舆论视为一个自我调节系统，在这个系统中，环境和政策的变化不断地对公众态度的转变施加压力。第二种方法认为，大众舆论更根本地受到既有的社会力量和意识形态偏见的影响。这种方法预计会有更大的阻力来应对变革压力，自由派和保守派以及美国中产阶级和工薪阶层等关键群体对这种压力的反应也会截然不同。更广泛的影响除了推进意见形成动态的学术研究之外，2010年SAPAC的调查还将使人们有可能对美国政策态度目前的演变进行广泛的、长期的描述。这是因为2010年的数据收集将直接延长我们在2007年和2009年进行的早期调查。在关注与社会福利、税收和国家安全有关的问题时，这项研究聚焦了对21世纪的美国人具有持久重要性的问题。