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Jakobsen, Tor G.. "Public vs. Private: The Conditional Effect of State Policy and Institutional Trust on Civic Perceptions" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 03, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p266540_index.html>

Jakobsen, T. G. , 2008-04-03 "Public vs. Private: The Conditional Effect of State Policy and Institutional Trust on Civic Perceptions" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/FORCE-DOWNLOAD>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p266540_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Does the size of a country’s public sector influence people’s attitudes toward privatization and individual responsibility? This paper uses multilevel analysis to investigate state policy’s effect on public opinion, employing three measures of economic left-right attitudes as dependent variables. My starting point is the adjustment hypothesis, which states that a person will modify his beliefs to accommodate that of his state’s policies. A new hypothesis is also presented: the conditional adjustment hypothesis; claiming that the adjustment effect is conditioned by individual’s confidence in institutions. These hypotheses are tested using data from the 1990 and 2000 waves of the World Values Survey, the units of analysis being persons living in OECD countries. The adjustment hypothesis is firmly rejected in all the models, yet the conditional adjustment hypothesis receives support in two of the three models. The results indicate that there is a conditional effect of institutional trust and policy-variables..

Attitudes Towards Gender Roles in the Public Sphere: An Individual and Contextual Level Analysis in 39 Countries

Heuristic and Systematic Biased Processing of Political Messages: Effects of Candidate Preference and the Level of Interest in Politics on Attitudes toward Issues

The Causes and Consequences of Time Legislators Spend Fundraising for Themselves and for their Caucuses: Modeling Effects of Institutional Design and Personal and Political Context in State Legislatures