Don’t knows” and public opinion towards economic reform

Evidence from Russia

Bibliographic Data

ID12302002
AuthorsAdam J Berinsky (0000-0001-7827-9396, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Joshua A Tucker (0000-0003-1321-8650, Princeton University)
Year2006
Volume39
Issue1
Pages73-99
Publication date2006-01-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunist and Post-Communist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0967-067X • E-ISSN: 1873-6920
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.postcomstud.2005.12.002
OpenAlexW2003917883
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited31

As market reform has spread throughout the globe, both scholars and policy makers have become increasingly interested in measuring public opinion towards economic changes. However, recent research from American politics suggests that special care must be paid to how surveys treat non-respondents to these types of questions. We extend this line of inquiry to a well-known case of large-scale economic reform, Russia in the mid-1990s. Our major finding is that Russians who fail to answer survey questions tend to be consistently less “liberal” than their counterparts who are able to answer such questions. This finding has implications both for our understanding of Russian public opinion in the 1990s, as well as for measuring attitudes towards economic reform more generally

Economic reform · Geography · Globe · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Media Influence and Politics · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Psychology · Public Administration

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub