1. Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Responsiveness to Policy.
- Author
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Soroka, Stuart and Wlezien, Christopher
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HOMOGENEITY , *HETEROGENEITY , *GOVERNMENT policy -- Social aspects , *PREFERENCES (Philosophy) , *GOVERNMENT spending policy - Abstract
This paper examines homogeneity and heterogeneity in preferences for public policy, across income and education levels and party identification, and across policy domains in the US, UK, and Canada. Do preferences differ across segments of the public at particular points in time? What about over time â" do we observe a uniform swing across different groups (parallel publics) or does the flow of opinion differ across party, income, and education? Our data on public preferences for government spending show cross-sectional heterogeneity across certain sub-aggregates in some domains, but overall very high levels of over-time homogeneity in trends across groups. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009