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American Economic Review Vol. 106 No. 5 2016

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

Maxim Boycko1; Robert J. Shiller2

1 Department of Economics, Harvard University, Littauer Center, Cambridge, MA 02138, and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University (e-mail: ) · 2 Department of Economics, Yale University, Cowles Foundation, 30 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511 (e-mail: )

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.

DOI
10.1257/aer.p20161066
Volume
106
Issue
5
Pages
224-229
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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