To Thine Own Self Be True: Economic Self-Assessments, Misperceptions, and Class-Inconsistent Policy Preferences and Voting in the United States

• In Event: Vote choice

Brief Overview

Using a unique, large-N survey experiment, we examine whether misperception of economic status and social mobility chances bias economic policy preferences in the direction of class-inconsistent positions.

Authors

• Christopher Ojeda, University of Tennessee

• Gary Michael Segura, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA

• Shaun Bowler, University of California-Riverside