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Responding to Policy Signals? An Experimental Study on Information about Policy Adoption and Data Retention Policy Support in Germany
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Abstract Objective: We analyze whether and how individuals react to information about the adoption of a particular policy, with a focus on the role of conservatism.
Methods: We conducted an online survey experiment on support for data retention in Germany. A recent law on this issue allowed us to test the e... view more
Objective: We analyze whether and how individuals react to information about the adoption of a particular policy, with a focus on the role of conservatism.
Methods: We conducted an online survey experiment on support for data retention in Germany. A recent law on this issue allowed us to test the effects of two policy signals, information about the adoption of a new law (law signal) and information that this followed a Constitutional Court decision (law and court signal), on separate groups of respondents.
Results: Our results show a positive effect of each policy signal on support for data retention. The effect of the law signal was even slightly stronger for individuals with conservative beliefs.
Conclusion: Illustrating how lock-in effects of policies can work, our study contributes to research on attitudinal policy feedback: creating new legislation also means legitimizing the policy position in question and stating that this norm should be accepted.... view less
Keywords
policy implementation; data storage; conservatism; online survey; experiment; policy area; policy studies; political support; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
ZA5250: ALLBUS/GGSS 2016 (Allgemeine Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften/German General Social Survey 2016)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 830-843
Journal
Social Science Quarterly, 102 (2021) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12931
ISSN
1540-6237
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0