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- Title
Public Support for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Trends and Predictors.
- Authors
Crosby, Andrew; Holbrook, Allyson L.
- Abstract
Although researchers have explored policy attitudes in domains that require expertise (e.g., medicine), less research has explored policy attitudes related to economic policies that also require expertise to understand. This paper examines public opinion about a balanced budget amendment (BBA) to the U.S. Constitution. Using data from 38 national public opinion polls conducted over 36 years, we find that support for a BBA is related to respondent and contextual factors. Support for a BBA has become more polarized along party and ideological lines over time, and implications of a BBA for other policies affect people's support for an amendment.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUBLIC opinion; UNITED States federal budget; BUDGET laws; CONSTITUTIONAL amendments (United States); LEGISLATIVE amendments; UNITED States. Constitution
- Publication
Public Budgeting & Finance, 2019, Vol 39, Issue 2, p44
- ISSN
0275-1100
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/pbaf.12213