The Nexus of Public and Elite Opinions: Implications for Policies and Institutions

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This project aims to advance knowledge of how public and elite opinions affect the policies and political institutions of Australia’s main trading partners including China and India. It expects to generate insights into their economic and environmental policies, trade openness and adversarial international behaviour. It plans to combine established qualitative methods from social sciences with new automated methods from computer science. Expected outcomes include improved measures of public and elite opinions and their effects on policies and institutions. The project should provide significant benefits by strengthening our capacity to understand and anticipate stability and change in other countries’ policies and institutions.