Group Interests, Individual Attitudes - How Group Memberships Shape Attitudes Towards the Welfare State

This book asks how regional and ethnic inequality shape attitudes toward taxes and spending to reduce inequality.

List of contents

• 1: Groups and Politics


• 2: Groups, Interests, and Heuristics


• 3: Methods for Evaluating Cross-National Micro-Level Theories


• 4: Linked Fate and Economic Optimism


• 5: Group Incomes, Individual Preferences


• 6: Inequality and Prediction


• 7: Uncertainty and Heuristics


• 8: Political Rhetoric and Cleavages


• 9: Decentralization and Heuristics


• 10: Conclusions


• Appendix A: Formal Model


• Appendix B: Surveying Attitudes

About the author

Michael J Donnelly is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Toronto. He has published in a number of leading journals including the British Journal of Political Science and Journal of Politics.

Summary

This book asks how regional and ethnic inequality shape attitudes toward taxes and spending to reduce inequality.

Product details

• Authors: Michael J Donnelly, Michael J (Assistant Professor of Politi Donnelly, Michael J (Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Donnelly
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2021
• EAN: 9780192896209
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289620-9
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Political science & theory, Public Administration, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Welfare economics, Political science and theory, Public administration / Public policy