No, thank you: Why do policy actors reject policy-relevant information/evidence, and how does it affect their policy beliefs?

• In Event: Emerging Trends in Policy Science

Brief Overview

Using experimental surveys of more than 2,000 Arkansans, we examine how individual policy actors’ learning-related mindsets affect how they reject policy-relevant information/evidence and how this influences the formation of their policy beliefs.

Authors

• Jeongyoon Lee, University of Kentucky

• Geoboo Song, University of Arkansas

• Ben W. Galloway, University of Arkansas

• A.G. Holdier, University of Arkansas

• Briana Huett, Drexel University

• Creed C. Tumlison, California State University-Bakersfield

• Nataliia Borozdina, University of Arkansas

• Izehi Oriaghan, University of Arkansas