Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Demand for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality
- Part I Demand for Redistribution: A Conceptual Framework
- 2 What Is Fair?
- 3 Unpacking Demand for Redistribution
- 4 As If Self-interested? The Correlates of Fairness Beliefs
- 5 When Material Self-interest Trumps Fairness Reasoning
- Part II Changes in Demand for Redistribution
- 6 Explaining Stability and Change
- 7 Fiscal Stress and the Erosion of Social Solidarity
- 8 Partisan Dynamics and Mass Attitudinal Change
- 9 How Proportionality Beliefs Form
- 10 The Nature and Origins of Reciprocity Beliefs
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
10 - The Nature and Origins of Reciprocity Beliefs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Demand for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality
- Part I Demand for Redistribution: A Conceptual Framework
- 2 What Is Fair?
- 3 Unpacking Demand for Redistribution
- 4 As If Self-interested? The Correlates of Fairness Beliefs
- 5 When Material Self-interest Trumps Fairness Reasoning
- Part II Changes in Demand for Redistribution
- 6 Explaining Stability and Change
- 7 Fiscal Stress and the Erosion of Social Solidarity
- 8 Partisan Dynamics and Mass Attitudinal Change
- 9 How Proportionality Beliefs Form
- 10 The Nature and Origins of Reciprocity Beliefs
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Summary
Reciprocity beliefs represent a challenge for researchers. Chapter 4 found a puzzling and robust correlation between reciprocity beliefs, on the one hand, and liberal–authoritarian values (LAVs), on the other. Chapter 10 argues that, underpinning the correlation between reciprocity beliefs and LAVs, it is hypothesized, is a disagreement over how to best respond to social dilemmas. People with more authoritarian response patterns to LAV items have a preference for maximizing cooperation by minimizing instances in which people who free ride on the collective effort unfairly walk away unpunished. People with more liberal values have a preference for minimizing instances in which people are unfairly punished despite being cooperators. In a discursive context, rich are more concerned about moral hazard, welfare abuse, and opportunistic behavior; people with more authoritarian response patterns will be more likely to incorporate such claims into their own basket of fairness considerations; and people with more liberal response patterns will be more likely to resist them. Chapter 10 provides evidence in support of this argument.
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- Fair Enough?Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality, pp. 220 - 241Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023