The idea that conservatives are better economic managers simply does not stand up

Conventional wisdom holds that conservative politicians are more prudent stewards of the economy. These politicians are often happy to reinforce this view by citing their business acumen and denigrating the experience – or lack thereof – of their opponents...
...However, in a new paper, Princeton Professors Alan Blinder and Mark Watson have actually looked at the data and they find a striking difference in the performance of the US economy under Democratic and Republican presidents. And the Democrats perform much better than their conservative counterparts.
https://theconversation.com/the-idea-that-conservatives-are-better-economic-managers-simply-does-not-stand-up-56678

Lottery wins make people more likely to vote Conservative

People who win large amounts of money on lotteries tend to switch their political allegiances towards the right of the political spectrum and become less egalitarian, joint UK-Australian research has found.

The study, Does money make people right-wing and inegalitarian: a longitudinal study of lottery wins, was conducted by Nattavudh Powdthavee of the University of Melbourne and the London School of Economics and Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick.

The pair based their conclusions on a long-term study of thousands of UK citizens who won up to £200,000 pounds in the lottery. The data is included in the British Household Panel Survey which, among many other things, keeps an annual record of the way in which people’s political attitudes have changed....
https://theconversation.com/lottery-wins-make-people-more-likely-to-vote-conservative-22909

Ideology Often Trumps Science, Especially Among Conservatives

In recent years, two narratives have been competing to explain the often-testy relationship between science and ideology. One asserts that all political partisans tend to deny scientific findings when they threaten their world view. The other insists that conservatives are much more resistant to accepting settled science than liberals.

A pair of new studies featured in a special “politics and science” edition of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science suggests both assertions are fundamentally correct.

One paper, by an Ohio State University team led by Erik Nisbet, finds both liberals and conservatives express negative feelings towards the scientific community when research results challenge their assumptions. But the researchers found the intensity of conservatives’ reactions was four times greater than that of liberals.

The other, by Joshua Blank and Daron Shaw of the University of Texas-Austin, concludes that while Americans’ willingness to defer to science “varies considerably across issues,” Democrats “are relatively more likely to say they defer to scientific expertise.”...
http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/ideology-often-trumps-science-especially-among-conservatives