Full edition for scientific use. PUMA Surveys consist of separate modules designed and prepared by different principle investigators. This PUMA Survey consists of three modules: MODULE 1 "How gender and gender stereotypes affect perceptions of competence for ministerial office", MODULE 2 "Income, tax perceptions, and fairness norms. A survey experiment", MODULE 3 "Disease avoidance and anti-immigration attitudes? The mediational role of right-wing authoritarianism facets". Fieldwork was conducted by Statistics Austria.
MODULE 1: How gender and gender stereotypes affect perceptions of competence for ministerial office (Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik) Do voters discriminate against female politicians? The politics and gender literature has produced mixed findings on this question. This project argues that we need to take the gendered nature of political offices into account. Drawing on the literature of gendered appointment patterns in executives and legislatures, it conjectures that gender discrimination in voter evaluations should depend on the policy domain of the office in question. A vignette experiment was fielded in a PUMA survey to test this proposition. The results show that voters do not discriminate overall, but they prefer men in stereotypically male roles and women in stereotypically female roles.
MODULE 2: Income, tax perceptions, and fairness norms. A survey experiment (Fabian Kalleitner, Bernhard Kittel) Since the 1970s, prominent macro-economic models suggest that higher levels of inequality will lead to more redistribution. However, empirical studies only find mixed support for this mechanism. Besides considering further determinants as explanatory factors, the mediating factor of information becomes more prominent. Recent studies show that individuals are only partially informed and change their preferences if they receive information. Using data from an experimental survey with information treatments, the study asks how information on (i) the relative position of one’s personal income and (ii) the present structure of the tax burden influences subjectively perceived levels of fair tax progressivity.
MODULE 3: Disease avoidance and anti-immigration attitudes? The mediational role of right-wing authoritarianism facets (Julian Aichholzer) Research in evolutionary social and political psychology suggests that the way individuals deal with pathogens and disgusting stimuli also shapes their political attitudes. This so called “behavioral immune system” might even explain why citizens accept or reject immigration in contemporary societies. The purpose of the current study was to explore facets of disease/pathogen avoidance and the role of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) as a potential link between such motivations and anti-immigration attitudes.
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Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based
