Exogenous Political Values and Endogenous Policy Positions

• In Event: The Political Economy of Public Opinion

Brief Overview

We develop a model of values and policy positions in which voters exogenously hold value commitments and politicians manipulate the salience of these values to a policy position to persuade voters to support the politician's preferred policy.

Authors

• Amna Salam, UC San Diego

• Arjun Vishwanath, Boston University