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The Context of Responsiveness: Resident Preferences, Water Scarcity, and Municipal Conservation Policy

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The extent to which municipal policy is determined by the preferences of residents is a topic of growing importance. Recent work on the subject has challenged conventional wisdom and found that municipal policy is often, but not always, responsive to the ideology of residents. This paper takes up an important potential implication of these findings, exploring how resident ideology may interact with issue severity in the adoption of municipal policy. Hypotheses suggest that resident preferences will have the greatest effect in the presence of high issue severity and that issue severity will have the largest impact when residents have ideological preferences in line with policy solutions. I test hypotheses using municipal water rates, with models showing that the effects of resident ideology and water scarcity interact with each other to influence water conservation policy. 自治区政策在多大程度上由居民偏好所决定，这是一个越来越重要的话题。近期有关该主题的研究挑战了传统看法，发现自治区政策时常对其居民的思想予以响应。本文从这些研究发现的一个潜在意义出发，探究在采纳自治区政策时居民思想可能如何与议题严重性产生相互影响。假设认为，居民偏好将在议题严重性较高时发挥最大效果，并且议题严重性将在居民思想偏好与政策解决措施相一致时发挥最大影响。我以自治区水费为例检验了假设，模型显示，居民思想和水资源匮乏二者产生相互作用，进而影响节水政策。 La medida en que la política municipal está determinada por las preferencias de los residentes es un tema de creciente importancia. El trabajo reciente sobre el tema ha desafiado la sabiduría convencional y ha encontrado que la política municipal a menudo, pero no siempre, responde a la ideología de sus residentes. Este documento aborda una importante implicación potencial de estos hallazgos, explorando cómo la ideología de los residentes puede interactuar con la gravedad del problema en la adopción de la política municipal. Las hipótesis sugieren que las preferencias de los residentes tendrán el mayor efecto en presencia de una alta gravedad del problema y que la gravedad del problema tendrá el mayor impacto cuando los residentes tengan preferencias ideológicas en línea con las soluciones políticas. Pruebo hipótesis utilizando tarifas de agua municipales, con modelos que muestran que los efectos de la ideología de los residentes y la escasez de agua interactúan entre sí para influir en la política de conservación del agua.

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  • David Switzer, 2020. "The Context of Responsiveness: Resident Preferences, Water Scarcity, and Municipal Conservation Policy," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 37(2), pages 260-279, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:37:y:2020:i:2:p:260-279
    DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12377
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