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
6 - Explaining Stability and Change
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
Chapter 6 takes stock of several insights that follow from the previous five chapters. One set of insights concerns expectations of a left-wing turn. Such expectations overlook the filtering role of fairness beliefs and fail to account for the redistribution to facet of redistributive preferences. Once these blind spots are accounted for, there are few reasons to expect a systematic relationship between an increase in income inequality and demand for redistribution. Another set of insights speaks to mass attitudinal change: The argument presented in the previous chapters points to factors that have received limited attention in political economy, including fiscal stress, survey design, and long-term partisan dynamics. One factor, immigration-induced ethnic diversity, is conspicuous by its absence. Part of the disconnect between inequality and support for redistribution could be due to hostility to immigrants. This chapter concludes by proposing several amendments to this line of reasoning, which, jointly, explain why, in this book, immigration-induced diversity ultimately takes a back seat.
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- Fair Enough?Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality, pp. 127 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023