Using a conjoint experiment, this research compare the effects of effectiveness and democratic values in predicting public program evaluation, conditioned on citizens’ trust in government.
This paper employs a series of experiments to examine the relationship between performance information and the evaluation mode, suggesting that presenting information jointly (joint evaluation), rather than separately (separate evaluation), may assist people in avoiding stereotyping and focusing on actual performance.
This paper employs a list experiment to examine whether mislabeling COVID-19 as the ‘Chinese Virus’ has incited opposition towards Chinese immigrants and reduced public blame attributed to the federal government.