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More than self-interest: Why different classes have different attitudes to income inequality
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Abstract The connection between social class and political preferences is among the most well established in the social sciences. This association is typically taken as prima facie evidence of economic self-interest: Classes hold different attitudes, values, and party preferences because they have different ... mehr
The connection between social class and political preferences is among the most well established in the social sciences. This association is typically taken as prima facie evidence of economic self-interest: Classes hold different attitudes, values, and party preferences because they have different economic interests. However, this assumption has rarely been tested empirically. In this article, we use survey data from 18 West European countries to examine why classes differ on a central aspect of political preferences, namely their views on the desirability of income inequality. We find that only a moderate proportion of differences between employee classes in support for redistribution can be accounted for by contemporary differences in resources and risks; differences in economic interests to some degree account for the anti-redistributive preferences of the professional middle classes compared with the working class. However, the preferences of the self-employed have a different explanation; autonomy is a better explanation of the right-wing preferences of the self-employed compared with the working class.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
soziale Klasse; soziale Schichtung; Einkommensumverteilung; Ungleichheit; politische Einstellung; Wertorientierung; Westeuropa
Klassifikation
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
EGP; mechanisms; redistributive preferences; self-interest; European Values Study 2008, 4th wave, integrated dataset, ZA4800 Dataset Version 2.0.0
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 594-607
Zeitschriftentitel
British Journal of Sociology, 71 (2020) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12747
ISSN
1468-4446
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)