"Innocent" or Just Uninterested? Meaningful Policy Features Outweigh Party Endorsements in Determining Citizens’ Policy Preferences

• In Event: Government and Opinion Formation

Brief Overview

Do any policy features matter to citizens? In a conjoint experiment, I manipulate several policy features and party endorsements. I find that certain policy features reliably outweigh party endorsements in determining citizens' policy preferences.

Author

• Nicholas C Dias, University of Pennsylvania