Neoliberal political leaders such as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1979-90) and President Ronald Reagan (1981-89) heralded entrepreneurs as capitalist heroes. Yet for the most part the policies they enacted did not help real entrepreneurs. Their ideology impaired their ability to promote...

Neoliberal political leaders such as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990) and President Ronald Reagan (1981–1989) heralded entrepreneurs as capitalist heroes, yet for the most part, the policies they enacted did not help real entrepreneurs. Their image of a self-made entrepreneur who...

This paper investigates the existence of a second dimension of state policy ideology orthogonal to the traditional left-right dimension: civil libertarianism-communitarianism. It argues that voter attitudes toward nonviolent acts that are sometimes crimes, particularly weapons and drugs...