What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?

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Title:	What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?
Keywords:	E60 D70 ddc:330 ideology public opinion knowledge Öffentliche Meinung Public Choice Eigeninteresse Ideologie Bildung Interview Vereinigte Staaten
Issue Date:	16-Oct-2013
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Description:	Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find that most respondents express a strong desire to be well informed on economic policy issues, and that television is their dominant source of information. On a variety of major policy issues (e.g., taxes, social security, health insurance), ideology is the most important determinant of public opinion, while measures of self-interest are the least important. Knowledge about the economy ranks somewhere in between.
URI:	http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20592
Other Identifiers:	http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20592 ppn:472872117
Appears in Collections:	EconStor

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