Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37248 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Public Economics: How do individuals vote and behave? No. E18-V1
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
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

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