Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: The Consumer Logic of Anti-Government Antagonism

DRMS博士论文研究：反政府对抗的消费者逻辑

• 批准号: 1357620
• 负责人: John Hansen
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-03-01 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1357620&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; DRMS; Consumer

This research addresses a persistent puzzle across the social sciences: What explains Americans' opposition to government? That is to say, why do Americans evince comparatively low support for redistributive programs, register decreasing trust in government, and offer electoral support to increasingly regressive tax schemes? The projects tests a novel causal explanation, grounded in behavioral economics and social psychology. The explanation proposes that, when evaluating government, citizens import the same consumer frameworks they rely on when making everyday consumer decisions. In other words, they treat government as just another consumer good. Such a framework is inherently ill-equipped to grapple with some of the benefits that government provides. Citizens conclude that government is providing them low "transaction utility" -- that they are getting a raw deal. The research expands on preliminary results to investigate the relationships among transaction utility as it is derived from government, attitudes toward government, and compliance with government rules and norms. Specially, the projects involves three experiments, one in the field and two over the Internet. The survey experiments evaluate the relationship between perceived costs and perceived benefits, and opposition to government. The field experiment tests the relationship between perceived costs and benefits and compliance with government rules and norms. The research relies on insights from behavioral economics, consumer psychology, political science and sociology to answer a question that has bedeviled scholars from across those disciplines. In so doing, the research will chart an interdisciplinary course to help public servants better communicate with citizens.

这项研究解决了整个社会科学的持续难题：是什么解释了美国人对政府的反对？也就是说，为什么美国人对重新分配计划的支持相对较低，注册对政府的信任减少并为日益退化的税收计划提供选举支持？这些项目测试了一种基于行为经济学和社会心理学的新颖因果解释。该解释表明，在评估政府时，公民在做出日常消费者决策时会进口他们所依赖的相同消费者框架。换句话说，他们将政府视为另一个消费者的好处。这样的框架本质上是不足以应对政府提供的一些好处。公民得出的结论是，政府正在为他们提供较低的“交易公用事业” - 他们正在获得原始交易。该研究扩展了初步结果，以调查交易公用事业之间的关系，因为该事业是从政府中得出的，对政府的态度以及遵守政府规则和规范的关系。特别是，这些项目涉及三个实验，一个在现场，两个实验。调查实验评估了感知到的成本与感知的福利与政府反对之间的关​​系。现场实验测试了感知到的成本与收益以及遵守政府规则和规范之间的关系。该研究依靠行为经济学，消费者心理学，政治学和社会学的见解来回答一个问题，该问题使这些学者遍及这些学科。这样一来，研究将绘制跨学科课程，以帮助公务员更好地与公民沟通。