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Popular Attitudes toward Markets and Democracy: Russia and United States Compared 25 Years Later

  • Maxim Boycko
  • Robert J. Shiller
American Economic Review
vol. 106, no. 5, May 2016
(pp. 224-29)
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Abstract

We repeat a survey we did in the waning days of the Soviet Union (Shiller, Boycko and Korobov, AER 1991) comparing attitudes towards free markets between Moscow and New York. Additional survey questions, from Gibson Duch and Tedin (J. Politics 1992) are added to compare attitudes towards democracy. Two comparisons are made: between countries, and through time, to explore the existence of international differences in allegiance to democratic free-market institutions, and the stability of these differences.

Citation

Boycko, Maxim, and Robert J. Shiller. 2016. "Popular Attitudes toward Markets and Democracy: Russia and United States Compared 25 Years Later." American Economic Review, 106 (5): 224-29. DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20161066

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JEL Classification

  • C83 Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
  • D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
  • D72 Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
  • E02 Institutions and the Macroeconomy
  • P16 Capitalist Systems: Political Economy
  • P26 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Political Economy; Property Rights
  • Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification