The Two Faces of Government Spending

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6340414
AutoresPaul Goren (0009-0009-7256-7579, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume61
Fascículo1
Páginas147-157
Data de publicação2008-03-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitical Research Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1065912907311881
OpenAlexW2056047796
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas29

Scholars have known for some time that attitudes toward federal spending on welfare are shaped by racial antipathies. Are attitudes toward spending on nonwelfare social programs similarly grounded? This article explores the dimensionality of spending attitudes and the extent to which they are rooted in stereotypical beliefs about blacks. Analysis of data from the 1992, 1996, and 2000 National Election Studies demonstrates that whites' attitudes toward welfare spending and social spending are structured in two-dimensional terms and that stereotypical beliefs about the work ethic of blacks systematically constrain their welfare attitudes and do not affect attitudes toward other social programs

Affect (linguistics · Demographic economics · Economics · General Social Survey · Government (linguistics · Government spending · Political science · Public economics · Social Welfare · Sociology · Welfare · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology