“Don't knows” and public opinion towards economic reform: Evidence from Russia |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E53-459, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;2. Princeton University, Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School, 227 Bendheim Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA;1. Greenbank Building, Lancashire Business School, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK;2. WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany;1. Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Fővám tér 8, Budapest H-1093, Hungary;2. Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Operational Research and Actuarial Sciences, Fővám tér 8, Budapest H-1093, Hungary;3. Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budaörsi út 45, Budapest H-1112, Hungary;1. Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES), Königstor 59, Kassel, Germany;2. Ecofys Germany GmbH, Albrechtstraße 10 c, Berlin, Germany;1. Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, NY 10964, USA;2. Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay Harbor, Maine, ME 04544, USA;3. Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA;4. University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD 21613, USA;5. NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, Washington, WA 98115-0070, USA;6. Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, 3-1-1 Minato-cho Hakodate, Hokkaido 041-8611, Japan;1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China;2. Courant Institute, New York University, and Simons Center for Data Analysis, Simons Foundation, New York, NY, USA;3. Courant Institute and Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, New York, NY, USA;1. Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, ZALF, Germany;2. RSB, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;3. Department of Chemistry, Curtin University, Perth, Australia;4. SKLLQG, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, China;5. Slovenian Forestry Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia;6. Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland;7. Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology & Inland Fisheries, Germany;8. Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung, Rostock, Germany;9. LUFA Nord-West, Institut für Futtermittel, Oldenburg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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