@techreport{Blinder2004What,
abstract = {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.},
author = {Alan S. Blinder and Alan B. Krueger},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {E60; D70; 330; ideology; public opinion; knowledge; \"{O}ffentliche Meinung; Public Choice; Eigeninteresse; Ideologie; Bildung; Interview; Vereinigte Staaten},
language = {eng},
number = {1324},
title = {What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20592},
year = {2004}
}
