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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

Our article is published within the special issue "Policymaking in Times of Crises" edited by Frank Baumgartner & Laura Chaqués Bonafont. Check it out: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Policymaking in times of crisis

Governments consistently deal with crises, but some are larger than others, some are endogenously created, and some are exogenously imposed. This article introduces a Special Issue of the Journal i...

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

This new piece of research highlights once again that governments are not only consumers of public opinion data, but also active participants in its creation by commissioning their own quantitative or qualitative public opinion studies.

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

... incentives related to the salience of the issue can shift the focus of government polls to issues where they have less room for manoeuvre.

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

💡 Our results show that while motivations to ask questions about a particular issue are shaped by constraints (institutional, financial and political) on the government’s ability to act in this area,...

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

🗒️ In a new article in the @jeppjournal.bsky.social , @anjadurovic.bsky.social &myself analyse how the character of the policy domain to which an issue belongs affects its likelihood of being included in gov. polls.

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

How do governments mobilise public opinion in times of uncertainty? Do they gauche public opinion systematically across policy domains or unevenly depending on the issue ?🧵

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Government polling in times of crises: when capacity meets incentives

How do governments mobilise public opinion in times of crises? While recent research examines the factors that determine the intensity of government polling at different points in the electoral cyc...

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

... to issues where they have less room for manoeuvre.

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

Our results show that while motivations to ask questions about a particular issue are shaped by constraints (institutional, financial & political) on the government’s ability to act in this area, incentives related to the salience of the issue can shift the focus of government polls...

(10/13)

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

However, when redistributive issues become a major public concern, governments are more likely to survey public opinion about them despite the financial implications.

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

The third pattern encompasses financial and policy-related elements. Governments clearly prefer polling on regulatory policy issues (ie. setting standards & rules) rather than on redistributive issues that require significant government spending.

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

This changes when an issue becomes a major public concern. During crises or when specific topics dominate public debate, the federal government starts polling much more about issues outside their direct control, particularly those involving shared responsibilities with state governments.

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

First, governments prefer to ask questions about issues they actually control. The German federal government is much more likely to commission surveys on topics under their jurisdiction rather than issues handled primarily by state governments.

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

Our research reveals three important patterns in how governments decide what to poll about.

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

One year ago, we published an @ejprjournal article on the factors that determine the intensity of government polling at different points in the electoral cycle. This time, we focus on the more qualitative aspects of government polling (i.e. what kind of policy issues are selected & why).

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

We do so by presenting empirical evidence from Germany, mobilising an original database of all poll questions directly commissioned by the German federal government during the 18th and 19th legislative periods (2013-2021).

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · 16d

In a new article @jeppjournal, @AnDurovic &myself analyse how the character of the policy domain to which an issue belongs affects its likelihood of being included in gov. polls.

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · Dec 17

Hi! Does anyone have a recommendation for a latex template for an HDR (not cumulative, but book form), preferably one that is also suitable for doctoral theses???? Thanks in advance!

Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · Dec 6

Un article avec @anjadurovic.bsky.social qui présent nos recherches actuelles (en français)

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The Conversation France @france.theconversation.com · Dec 5

Une étude récente montre que la stabilité au pouvoir de l’ancienne chancelière allemande Angela Merkel est en partie liée à sa capacité d’adaptation à l’opinion publique, qui reposait sur une utilisation stratégique des enquêtes d’opinion.

Angela Merkel : une popularité à toute épreuve… grâce aux enquêtes d'opinion ?

L’examen de l’utilisation intensive des sondages par l’ex-chancelière allemande Angela Merkel est porteur de nombreux enseignements.

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Oct 10

📘 Based on EJPR journal research on government polling in Germany, @tinesch.bsky.social and @anjadurovic.bsky.social explore when and why governments seek public opinion 📊. They discover that governments exploit polls in a highly strategic way.
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Why governments want to learn about citizens’ preferences

Democratic governments conduct extensive public opinion research, but we know little about how they use it. When and why do they seek to find out what the public thinks? Opening the black box of gover...

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · Sep 24

Our next papers (as part of ANR research project Cospo) will deal with the morequalitative aspect of government polling: the question as to which specific policy issues are selected by government polls, when and why? And will extend the research to a Franco-German comparison. (7/7)

Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · Sep 24

German government’s varied polling throughout the electoral cycle suggests that it uses this tool in a strategic way, responding to different incentives. This underlines the importance of understanding governments as actors in, and not just consumers of, public opinion polls. (6/7)

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · Sep 24

Second, we find that survey questions often follow government priorities, but issue salience also matters. The balance shifts over the electoral cycle: after elections, governments focus on their policies, while closer to elections, they prioritize public concerns. (5/7)

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · Sep 24

A first important finding concerns the impact of issue ownership and the observation that the German government asks fewer questions on issues the CDU/CSU "owns". (4/7)

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Tinette Schnatterer @tinesch.bsky.social · Sep 24

We study government polls as the DV, using an innovative design to analyze factors influencing polling intensity across the electoral cycle. We also explore whether poll topics align more with government priorities or public concerns. (3/7)

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