Consensus and Confusion: An Examination of Public Salience and Misperceptions of U.S. Budget Deficits and National Debt

A belief that reducing the budget deficit is important has long been a matter of exceptional public consensus in the U.S. As a political issue, the budget deficit is often the framing issue around major policy debates in Washington D.C. However, the public has deep and fundamental misperceptions abo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faherty, Michael
Other Authors: Tichenor, Dan
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23834