Public Opinion and Policy: How U.S. Bureaucrats Learn About and Use Data on Public Preferences

• In Event: Evaluating Policy, and Elite Communication

Brief Overview

Using 25 interviews and a survey experiment completed by 2,000 federal policymakers, I propose and test a theoretical framework for how U.S. bureaucrats use data on public opinion, reconciling theories of elite opinion leadership and policy feedback.

Author

• Lizzie Martin, ennekim