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| Title: | | Near Is My Shirt, But Nearer Is My Skin: Ideology or Self-Interest as Determinants of Public Opinion on Fiscal Policy Issues  |
| Authors: | | Schwarz, Gerhard Pitlik, Hans Brandl, Bernd Bechter, Barbara |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Public Economics: How do individuals vote and behave? E18-V1 |
| Abstract: | | Several empirical studies derive that personal positions with respect to policy measures are dominated by ideology instead of narrow self-interest. In the present field study we carried out a telephone survey with 1.003 respondents all over Austria. Instead of only measuring self-interest indirectly, we requested respondents to assess directly whether they expect to be affected by policy measures. Our results indicate that such a subjectively measured narrow self-interest explains attitudes towards economic policies at least as good as ideological conviction. In some cases, however, ideology appears to determine whether people feel affected by a proposed policy measure. |
| Subjects: | | public opinion sociotropic voting ideology self-interest telephone surveys |
| JEL: | | D72 D83 D84 |
| Document Type: | | Conference Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010 (Kiel): Ökonomie der Familie
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