Individual preferences for political redistribution

被引：365

作者：

Corneo, G

Grüner, HP

机构：

[1] Univ Osnabruck, Dept Econ, D-49069 Osnabruck, Germany

[2] Univ Mannheim, Dept Econ, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany

[3] CEPR, London, England

[4] CESifo, Munich, Germany

[5] IZA, Bonn, Germany

来源：

JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS | 2002年 / 83卷 / 01期

关键词：

governmental redistribution; political attitudes;

D O I：

10.1016/S0047-2727(00)00172-9

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

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.

引用

页码：83 / 107

页数：25

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