Individual and contextual predictors of policy instruments attitudes












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            * Individual and contextual predictors of policy instruments attitudes
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            2019-2021


            Principal Investigator: Arnošt Veselý


            Funded by the Czech Science Foundation, this project deals with an empirical analysis of t
            influencing attitudes toward government policies (‘policy attitudes’). The goal of the pro
            the hypothesis that policy attitudes are influenced not only by the nature of the problem 

            by preference for a particular type of policy instrument (Béland and Howlett 2016). This “
            hypothesis assumes that instrument preferences are predictable, and are influenced by both

            factors and the context in which people operate. The main source of data will be a represe
            of university students from various disciplines (N=3000), realized in the second year of t
            Differences in policy attitudes among students from different disciplines and in different

            will be analysed to test whether those differences are better predicted by individual fact
            context (discipline studied). This will be the first complex survey of the policy attitude
            students, as well as the first large-scale survey that empirically tests the instrumental 

            goal of the project is, on the sample of Czech university students, to test the hypothesis
            consistent attitudes on policy instruments. The research will also reveal to what extent t
            are formed by individual factors or by the context (discipline studied).