How the Sausage Gets Made: An Experiment in Shaping Public Opinion of the Administrative State

• In Event: Agency Policy Making

Brief Overview

We conduct a novel experiment to test whether Americans form their opinions on executive agency decisions based on whether those decisions are framed as emerging from either technocratic or democratic deliberative processes.

Authors

• Colin Angus Leslie, University of Southern California

• Anthony Williams Orlando, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

• William G. Resh, University of Southern California