Measuring Paternalism in American Public Opinion

• In Event: Policy Preferences across Gender and Race

Brief Overview

Paternalism—how government and society enforce control on the behavior of women—is an understudied topic in political science. This paper uses crowd-sourced data to analyze measures of paternalism in American public opinion.

Authors

• Anne Cizmar, Eastern Kentucky University

• Kerem Ozan Kalkan, Eastern Kentucky University