Mikael Persson
Mikael Mats Robert Persson, better known by his stage name Mike Perry, is a Swedish DJ and music producer from… more
by Klaus H. Goetz — Reposted by: Mikael Persson
Find out in the new article by @bart-maes.bsky.social Stefaan Walgrave Emmi Verleyen Frédéric Varone @annerasmussen.bsky.social & @professormpersson.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Reposted by: Mikael Persson, Henning Finseraas
by Ruth Dassonneville — Reposted by: Mikael Persson
by Mikael Persson — Reposted by: Ruth Dassonneville, Henning Finseraas
Reposted by: Mikael Persson, Robert Huber
@jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, W.Schakel & A.Sundell look at 🗳️ voters’ policy preferences often misalign with what they get in practice with the study showing how this “electoral connection” gap contributes to unequal outcomes
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by Klaus H. Goetz — Reposted by: Mikael Persson
"Ideological bias in policy implementation: public opinion and policy outcomes in 43 democracies"
Research Note by @professormpersson.bsky.social & Anders Sundell
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by Mikael Persson — Reposted by: Klaus H. Goetz
by Mikael Persson — Reposted by: Christian Pieter Hoffmann
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Reposted by: Mikael Persson
by John Holbein — Reposted by: Mikael Persson
Signals are interpreted through a lens of class exposure.
Each signal carries has its specific effect.
Economic reasoning is structured, but unequally distributed.
Not all voters process signals the same way:
– High-knowledge voters make more accurate and nuanced inferences
– High-income voters place more weight on stock markets
– Labor market position has surprisingly little impact
– Inflation strongly affects personal/national evaluations and vote choice
– Unemployment matters for all outcomes, but less consistently
– GDP influences national more than personal assessments
– Stocks influences personal evaluations, but matters less for voting
Voters distinguish who benefits and who suffers from different signals:
– Unemployment is seen as hurting the working class
– Inflation is seen as hitting both the working and middle class
– Stock markets are seen as primarily benefiting the rich
– GDP growth broadly positive.
Voters have intuitive models of how the economy works. Many apply a “good-begets-good” heuristic:
When one signal improves, others are assumed to follow. But this isn’t always consistent with macroeconomic logic. High-knowledge = more likely to recognize tradeoffs.
Voters differentiate how macro signals affect:
– Their personal economy
– The national economy
– Their vote intentions
All four signals matter — not just GDP or unemployment — but they matter in different ways.
📊 We fielded survey experiments in 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 (N ≈ 9,000), randomly varying information about:
– GDP growth
– Inflation
– Unemployment
– Stock markets
Most economic voting research assumes voters respond to “the economy” as a unified construct.
But which macro signals shape perceptions of the economy?
We show that voters distinguish between macroeconomic signals — and reason about them in distinct ways.
Reposted by: Mikael Persson
@professormpersson.bsky.social and I contribute with two chapters to the new Research Handbook on Education and Democracy👇
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New Working paper by Love Christensen, Mikael Persson and Jana Schwenk.
www.ifau.se/en/Press/Abs...
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Reposted by: Mikael Persson
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