Preference Falsification - What Did We See Before the Wall Came Down?

Temor has studied societies with widespread preference falsification. The phenomenon can be hard to spot, because people don't go round waving a flag saying that they are falsifying their preferences. But one way to spot it is when one regime comes to an end and a new one suddenly springs up in its place. That's what happened in east germany in nineteen eighty nine, when the berlin war came down. After the wall came down, very few people would actually admit to having been sincere supporters of the regime that fell. It became hazardous to admit that one sincerely believed in the regime....