Study Napier & Jost (2008): study US 2000

Public

Voters, before and after presidential election, USA, 2000

Sample

Respondents

N = 1142

Non Response

not reported

Assessment

Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
T1: face-to-face or telephone interview; T2: telephone interview

Correlate

Authors's Label

Rationalization of inequality

Our Classification

Error Estimates

Alpha=.66

Remarks

Scores adjusted for non response, within-household selection, poststratification of age and education, and attrition from T1 to T2.

Operationalization

Mean of responses to the six anti-egalitarianistic statements, such as:
- It is not really that big a problem if some people have more of a chance in life than others
- This country would be better off if we worried less about how equal people are

Assessed at T2

Observed Relation with Happiness