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Hot cognition in agricultural policy preferences in Norway?
- Source :
- Agriculture and Human Values. 33:61-71
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- The paper tests the hypothesis that cultural and social background is far more influential to form preferences about policy than the level of fact-based knowledge a person possesses. The data for the case study stem from a web-based survey among a representative sample of the adult population in Norway. The degree of knowledge of agriculture in this paper is operationalized through questions on five key characteristics of Norwegian agriculture that frequently arise in the public discussion. The results show that the amount of fact-based knowledge of agriculture to a very little extent explains differences within the sample. The cultural background of respondents is much more suited to explain agricultural policy preferences. Knowledge, however, shifts the attention from food price issues towards the delivery of public goods. The results allow us to hint at hot cognition as a possible explanation for such findings.
- Subjects :
- Economic growth
Operationalization
Political psychology
Public economics
business.industry
05 social sciences
050109 social psychology
Sample (statistics)
Norwegian
Public good
language.human_language
Hot cognition
Agriculture
0502 economics and business
language
Agricultural policy
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
050202 agricultural economics & policy
Sociology
business
Agronomy and Crop Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15728366 and 0889048X
- Volume :
- 33
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........bb6980768bb53cdb8bcbc578fb9c9e34