Does Inequality Beget Inequality? Experimental Tests of the Prediction that Inequality Increases System Justification Motivation
Past research shows that growing inequality often does not result in citizen demands for redistribution. We examine one mechanism that could explain why people do not protest growing inequality: a particular sub-prediction of system justification theory (SJT). SJT argues that humans have a psycholog...
Main Authors: | Trump, Kris-Stella, White, Ariel R. |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128560 |
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