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

该项目旨在促进公众和精英意见如何影响澳大利亚主要贸易伙伴（包括中国和印度）的政策和政治制度的知识。它希望能够深入了解这些国家的经济和环境政策、贸易开放程度以及敌对的国际行为。它计划将社会科学中已建立的定性方法与计算机科学中新的自动化方法结合起来。预期结果包括改善公众和精英意见的衡量标准及其对政策和制度的影响。通过加强我们理解和预测其他国家政策和制度的稳定性和变化的能力，该项目将带来重大利益。

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.