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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Blinder, Alan S. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Krueger, Alan B. | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-01-28T16:15:14Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2009-01-28T16:15:14Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2004 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20592 | | - |
| dc.description.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. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | IZA Discussion paper series 1324 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | E60 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D70 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | ideology | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | public opinion | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | knowledge | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Öffentliche Meinung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Public Choice | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Eigeninteresse | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Ideologie | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Bildung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Interview | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Vereinigte Staaten | | en_US |
| dc.title | | What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It? | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 472872117 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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