Is the Relationship Between Political Responsibility and Electoral Accountability Causal, Adaptive and Policy-Specific?

RT @mvinaes: My new article in @PolBehavior: Voters respond to reform that gave subset of local govs more political responsibility for une…

[Abstract] Danish study suggests that the relationship between political responsibility and electoral accountability is causal, adaptive and tied to specific policies https://t.co/BO6gFB9KvY https://t.co/CIUjnHwWOd

Government accountability at the local level seems to work - on specific policies. Great causal design and great to see this in print. https://t.co/MjPmqjRpUA

In cool new natural experiment from @mvinaes, voters judge Danish mayors in correspondence with their evals of econ performance *more so* in treatment group of cities where they actually had responsibility for labor market policy! https://t.co/cCnxVTs8v4