Wagner Markus
Department of Methods in the Social Sciences, University of Vienna, Rathausstrasse 19/1/9, 1010 Vienna, Austria.
Polit Behav. 2014;36(3):683-703. doi: 10.1007/s11109-013-9241-5. Epub 2013 Jul 9.
While we know that emotional reactions are important influences on political behavior, we know far less about the sources of these emotions. This paper studies the causes of fear and anger in reaction to a negative stimulus: the financial crisis. Anger should have been experienced among individuals who believed a specific actor was to blame for the crisis. Moreover, individuals should have been particularly angry if they blamed an actor who should be accountable to them, for example the national government. I test these expectations using a panel survey run in Britain between 2005 and 2010. This data shows that British citizens experienced anger if they held an actor responsible for the crisis. Moreover, they felt particularly angry if they held the Labour government (and to a lesser extent the European Union) responsible. These findings underline the importance of studying the causes of emotional reactions and show how these may be linked to common institutional distinctions between political systems.
虽然我们知道情绪反应是政治行为的重要影响因素，但我们对这些情绪的来源了解得要少得多。本文研究了对负面刺激——金融危机——做出反应时恐惧和愤怒的成因。在那些认为某个特定行为体应对危机负责的个体中，应该会体验到愤怒情绪。此外，如果个体指责的是一个应对他们负责的行为体，比如国家政府，那么他们应该会格外愤怒。我利用2005年至2010年在英国进行的一项面板调查来检验这些预期。这些数据表明，如果英国公民认为某个行为体应对危机负责，他们就会感到愤怒。此外，如果他们认为工党政府（以及程度稍轻的欧盟）应对危机负责，他们会格外愤怒。这些发现凸显了研究情绪反应成因的重要性，并展示了这些成因如何可能与政治体制之间常见的制度差异相关联。
