Economists' policy views and voting

Klein, Daniel B.; Stern, Charlotta

doi:10.1007/s11127-006-7509-6

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“…Nowadays, as documented by Klein and Stern (2006), the stance of American economists appears to have somewhat softened; but economists still do not support the Democrats as fervently as other social scientists. Berggren et al (2009) provide similar empirical evidence for Sweden.…”

Section: The Effects Of Training In Economicsmentioning

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Support for free-market policies and reforms: Does the field of study influence students' political attitudes?

Fischer

Kauder

Potrafke

et al. 2017

European Journal of Political Economy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractSince opinion leaders are usually university graduates, the field of study has an influence on public support for economic policies and policy reforms intended to enhance efficiency because advocating such policies often requires appreciation of the beneficial roles of markets and economic freedom. We investigate whether the field of study influences German university students' political attitudes. We disentangle self-selection from learning effects and reveal systematic differences between incoming students' political attitudes across eight fields of study. In a second step we explore how the students' political attitudes change as they progress in their academic training. Only studying economics has an unambiguous pro-market influence on political attitudes: by the time of graduation, economics students are some 6.2 percentage points more likely than they were in their initial year of study to agree with free-market policy positions. Studying humanities and natural sciences has a pro-leftist influence.JEL Code: A13, A22, B40, D01, Z13.

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Section: The Effects Of Training In Economicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Support for free-market policies and reforms: Does the field of study influence students' political attitudes?

Fischer

Kauder

Potrafke

et al. 2017

European Journal of Political Economy

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“…By the 2000s, market fundamentalism had lost much of its cachet among mainstream economists (Klein & Stern 2006) but retained cultural visibility through the work of transnational advocacy networks of think tanks and other international organizations (Babb 2009, Bockman 2007, Bockman & Eyal 2002, Chwieroth 2010, Teles & Kenney 2008. Often, these groups had an a priori commitment to free markets, and their faith was often rooted in political-philosophical arguments, such as equating freedom or liberty with political systems that prioritized private property rights, deregulation, and limited governance (Friedman 2000, Hayek 1944).…”

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The Arc of Neoliberalism

2012

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For three decades, neoliberalism dominated the global political economy. Defined as an explicit preference for private over public control, neoliberalism represented a dramatic break from postwar policies. This article examines the historical development of neoliberalism through three perspectives: as an economic policy, as an expression of political power, and as an ideational hegemony. We reject the notion of neoliberal inevitability and suggest how it came to dominate all other possible alternatives. The review emphasizes the critical importance of political preferences and influences as well as the central role ideas played in defining policy paradigms.

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“…The difference is moreover always statistically significant. This finding is reminiscent of Klein and Stern (2006), who report that the variance of answers of members of the American Economic Association to questions pertaining to state intervention tend to be larger than those of any other discipline. Conversely, in the last year of the bachelor, economics students appear to be the most homogeneous group, as the third column of Table 1 shows.…”

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