Individual preferences for political redistribution

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Corneo, G; Grüner, HP
• 署名单位: University Osnabruck; University of Mannheim; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(00)00172-9
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 83-107
• 关键词: governmental redistribution; political attitudes

摘要

What drives people's support of governmental reduction of income inequality? We employ data from a large international survey in order to evaluate the explanatory power of three competing forces, referred to as the 'homo occonomicus effect', the 'public values effect', and the 'social rivalry effect'. The empirical analysis reveals that at the aggregate level all three effects play a significant role in shaping individual preferences for political redistribution. Attitudes of citizens in formerly socialist countries turn out to differ from those of western citizens in a systematic way. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.