TY  - JOUR
TI  - All Keynesians now? Public support for countercyclical government borrowing
Y1  - 2021/01//
VL  - 9
EP  - 188
A1  - Barnes, Lucy
A1  - Hicks, Timothy
KW  - Economic policy; political economy; public opinion
IS  - 1
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
ID  - discovery10085389
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2019.48
PB  - Cambridge University Press (CUP)
JF  - Political Science Research and Methods
SP  - 180 
SN  - 2049-8489
N2  - In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, macroeconomic policy returned to the political agenda, and the influence of Keynesian ideas about fiscal stimulus rose (and then fell) in expert circles. Much less is known, however, about whether and when Keynesian prescriptions for countercyclical spending have any support among the general public. We use a survey experiment, fielded twice, to recover the extent to which UK respondents hold such countercyclical attitudes. Our results indicate that public opinion was countercyclical?Keynesian?in 2016. We then use Eurobarometer data to estimate the same basic parameter for the population for the period 2010?2017. The observational results validate our experimental findings for the later period, but also provide evidence that the UK population held procyclical views at the start of the period. Thus, there appear to be important dynamics in public opinion on a key macroeconomic policy issue.
AV  - public
ER  -