Rendleman Hunter, Rogowski Jon C
Department of Government, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA.
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 5828 S. University Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 USA.
Polit Behav. 2022 Sep 2:1-24. doi: 10.1007/s11109-022-09820-3.
Contemporary and historical political debates often revolve around principles of federalism, in which governing authority is divided across levels of government. Despite the prominence of these debates, existing scholarship provides relatively limited evidence about the nature and structure of Americans' preferences for decentralization. We develop a new survey-based measure to characterize attitudes toward subnational power and evaluate it with a national sample of more than 2000 American adults. We find that preferences for devolution vary considerably both across and within states, and reflect individuals' ideological orientations and evaluations of government performance. Overall, our battery produces a reliable survey instrument for evaluating preferences for federalism and provides new evidence that attitudes toward institutional arrangements are structured less by short-term political interests than by core preferences for the distribution of state authority.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11109-022-09820-3.
当代和历史上的政治辩论常常围绕联邦制原则展开，在联邦制中，治理权在各级政府之间进行划分。尽管这些辩论备受瞩目，但现有学术研究提供的关于美国人对权力下放偏好的性质和结构的证据相对有限。我们开发了一种基于调查的新方法来描述对地方权力的态度，并对2000多名美国成年人的全国样本进行了评估。我们发现，对权力下放的偏好因州而异，且在州内也存在很大差异，反映了个人的意识形态倾向和对政府表现的评价。总体而言，我们的一系列方法产生了一种可靠的调查工具，用于评估对联邦制的偏好，并提供了新的证据，表明对制度安排的态度更多地是由对国家权力分配的核心偏好而非短期政治利益所构建的。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s11109-022-09820-3获取的补充材料。
