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2023년 5월 12일 금요일 오전 10시에 University of Chicago의 Adam Zelizer 교수와 세미나를 진행할 예정이니 관심있는 분들의 많은 참여 부탁드립니다.
Zelizer 교수는 이번 세미나에서 “On Legislative Persuasion: Changing Positions and Changing Minds among Legislators"를 주제로 발표 할 예정입니다.
발표: Adam Zelizer (University of Chicago)
제목: On Legislative Persuasion: Changing Positions and Changing Minds among Legislators
일시: 2023.05.12(금) 10:00-11:15
Zoom
회의 ID: 810 4318 7003
암호: KUpol1905!
Abstract: Legislators are thought to take predictable positions on bills based on stable personal ideologies. But in the past decade, experiments have shown that information about policy content, expert opinion, and constituent preferences changes legislators’ support for legislation. We revisit four such studies to examine the credibility of, and mechanisms behind, these apparent influences on legislators’ policy positions. Are legislators’ positions really so mutable as to be changed by these interventions? Are legislators changing their minds about policy, or just their positions? In short, are legislators persuadable? We use experimental and ethnographic evidence to analyze the persistence, scope, and heterogeneity of legislative influence. We conclude that legislators’ policy reversals are robust and long-lasting. Legislative influence more resembles a process of learning about policy details or reconciling conflicting interests than one of deeply-held attitude change or conscious pandering. Our findings have implications for understanding legislators’ voting decisions and how outside interests influence the legislative process.