The Effects of Perceptions of Economic Inequality on Policy Preferences: Evidence from Michigan

Autor:	Jeremy F. Duff, Charles L. Ballard
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Economic inequality Public economics media_common.quotation_subject Cash Economic mobility Polarization (politics) Economics Survey data collection Public policy Ideology Payment media_common
Zdroj:	Michigan Academician. 44:256-286
ISSN:	2167-8634 0026-2005
DOI:	10.7245/0026-2005-44.3.256
Popis:	Using survey data from a random sample of the Michigan adult population, we investigate the relationship between individuals' perceptions of income inequality, economic mobility, and labor-market discrimination, and their preferences regarding a wide variety of public policies. These include policies (such as cash payments for the poor) that are economic in nature, as well as other policies (such as abortion and the death penalty) that are not narrowly economic. Our results indicate that perceptions of income inequality, economic mobility, and labor-market discrimination play an important role in explaining the variation in policy preferences. These effects tend to be more important for issues on which the degree of political polarization is relatively small. However, in many cases, these perceptions also have significant effects for issues that are more polarized. Self-reported ideology has no significant effects on preferences toward the policies for which polarization is small, but ideology has large and significant effects for the more highly polarized variables.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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