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...

Patents on biotechnological inventions are suspected to create "patents on life". We shed light on arguments which have often been used in the media campaigns of NGOs. While we acknowledge the role of these organisations as seldom critical voices, we conclude that their arguments, at best, only...