Strong Welfare States Do Not Intensify Public Support for Income Redistribution, but Even Reduce It among the Prosperous: A Multilevel Analysis of Public Opinion in 30 Countries

Strong Welfare States Do Not Intensify Public Support for Income Redistribution, but Even Reduce It among the Prosperous: A Multilevel Analysis of Public Opinion in 30 Countries

How tightly linked are the strength of a country’s welfare state and its residents’ support for income redistribution? Multilevel model results (with appropriate controls) show that the publics of strong welfare states recognize their egalitarian income distributions, i.e., the s...

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Main Authors: M. D. R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-10-01
Series:Societies
Subjects:
redistribution attitudes
public opinion
inequality
social spending
corporatism
welfare state
welfarism
social policy
sociotropic
economic self-interest
cross-cultural
multilevel analysis
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/8/4/105

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