Correcting the Illusion of Incompetence: "Just" Preferences as a Fairer Standard of Citizen Competence

• In Event: Political Psychology of Competence, Knowledge, and Learning

Brief Overview

With a representative survey and conjoint experiment, I show that ordinary Americans' policy preferences are more competent than often supposed. The apparent incompetence of ordinary Americans is an artifact of how scholars have evaluated competence.

Author

• Nicholas C Dias, University of Pennsylvania