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Does Process Matter? Direct Democracy and Citizens’ Perceptions of Laws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

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Christina Ladam*
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Department of Political Science, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, USA, e-mail: cladam@unr.edu
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Abstract

Does the process used to pass a law affect the way citizens evaluate the outcome? In a series of experiments, I manipulate the way in which a law is passed – ballot initiative or the legislative process – to test the effect of process on citizens’ evaluations of policy outcomes. The results show that people view the ballot initiative process as fairer than the legislative process, but that process has a negligible effect on outcome evaluations.

Keywords

Survey experimentdirect democracypublic opinionstate politics

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Short Report
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Journal of Experimental Political Science , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Winter 2020 , pp. 232 - 237
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© The Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2019

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