Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: Does better information about policy change voter attitudes?We ask and answer this question with specific reference to redistributive policy, a core concern in the comparative literature about advanced industrial democracies.Most scholars of political economy have highlighted the potential for asymmetries in information to skew redistributive policy towards the interests of the rich.We evaluate the causal impact of providing better information through a field experiment by randomising the timing of receipt of a new policy providing budget information to taxpayers.
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2545119364