Several empirical studies derive that personal positions with respect to policy measures are dominated by ideology instead of narrow self-interest. In the present field study we carried out a telephone survey with 1.003 respondents all over Austria. Instead of only measuring self-interest...

Several empirical studies derive that personal positions with respect to policy measures are dominated by ideology instead of narrow self-interest. In the present field study we carried out a telephone survey with 1,003 respondents all over Austria. Instead of measuring selfishness indirectly by...

This research allows the authors to conclude, for the first time, that industrial relations tend to vary more by sector than by country, and consequently demonstrates a strong reason why more attention should be paid to industrial relations at the sectoral level. It also suggests a link between...