Sticking with Your Vote: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes

By Sendhil Mullainathan, Ebonya L. Washington. 2009

219 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. Esther Duflo
2. T. Fujiwara
3. Raghabendra Chattopadhyay
4. Elias Dinas
5. David Yanagizawa-Drott
6. Kyle C. Meng
7. Tom Vogl
8. Rohini Pande

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Rohini Pande
2. T. Fujiwara
3. Lori Beaman
4. Elias Dinas
5. David Yanagizawa-Drott
6. Kyle C. Meng
7. Esther Duflo
8. Daniel Shoag

Citations in the corpus

• Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections (2016, background): “Mullainathan and Washington (2009) argue that, due to cognitive dissonance, the act of voting”
• Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias? (2008, background): “The first cohort of women leaders fails to benefit from this updating, potentially because voters “stick” with their assessment of a specific leader (Mullainathan and Washington, 2009).”
• The Formation of Voting Habits (2012, methodology): “Previous studies using eligibility as an instrument of turnout have also used an IV approach (Meredith, 2009; Mullainathan & Washington, 2009).”
• Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement* (2013, background): “That said, there is broad consensus that the emanations of their endorsements and exaltations constitute a penumbra desire to shift policy ‘‘to the right,’’ in an across-the-board conservative direction (see, e.g., Skocpol and Williamson 2011).”