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Appendix B - Survey Questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2016

Cass R. Sunstein
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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1. Do you approve or disapprove of the following hypothetical policy?

The federal government requires calorie labels at chain restaurants (such as McDonald's and Burger King).

2. Do you approve or disapprove of the following hypothetical policy?

The federal government requires graphic warnings on cigarette packages (where the graphic warnings include pictures of people suffering from smoking-related diseases, such as cancer).

3. Do you approve or disapprove of the following hypothetical policy?

The federal government requires a “traffic lights” system for food, by which healthy foods would be sold with a small green label, unhealthy foods with a small red label, and foods that are neither especially healthy nor especially unhealthy with a small yellow label.

4. Do you approve or disapprove of the following hypothetical policy?

The federal government encourages (without requiring) employers to adopt a system in which employees would be automatically enrolled in a pension plan, but could opt out if they wish.

5. Do you approve or disapprove of the following hypothetical policy?

The federal government encourages (without requiring) electricity providers to adopt a system in which consumers would be automatically enrolled in a “green” (environmentally friendly) energy supplier, but could opt out if they wished.

6. Do you approve or disapprove of the following hypothetical policy?

A state law saying that on the ballot, the current senator, governor, president, or mayor must always be listed first.

7. Do you approve or disapprove of the following hypothetical policy?

A state law saying that citizens of a state are automatically enrolled as voters, and do not have to register as voters.

8. Do you approve or disapprove of the following hypothetical policy?

A state law requiring people to say, when they obtain their drivers’ license, whether they want to be organ donors.

9. Do you approve or disapprove of the following hypothetical policy?

A federal law requiring companies to disclose whether the food they sell contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

10. Do you approve or disapprove of the following hypothetical policy?

A federal law assuming that people are Christian, for purposes of the census, unless they specifically state otherwise.

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The Ethics of Influence
Government in the Age of Behavioral Science
, pp. 209 - 213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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  • Survey Questions
  • Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Ethics of Influence
  • Online publication: 05 June 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316493021.011
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  • Survey Questions
  • Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Ethics of Influence
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316493021.011
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  • Survey Questions
  • Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Ethics of Influence
  • Online publication: 05 June 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316493021.011
Available formats
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