Job Authority and Support for Income Redistributive Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3755533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Wilson (0000-0002-6620-9427, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA, corresponding author), David J Maume (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189-202 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764215607593 |
| OpenAlex | W2225840152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 27 |
Building on substantive yet neglected foundations provided by classical sociological theorists-theorists who emphasized the experiential conditions of work in structuring ideology-we examine in this article the impact of job authority tasks on levels of support for policy to redistribute income. Such a focus contributes to a broader sociological understanding of the links between status, ideology, and political action. With data drawn from the 2010 and 2012 National Election Studies, we find that workplace experiences and tasks involving sanctioning/organizational responsibility as well as the hierarchical patterning of interactions on one's job help structure generalized views regarding inequality and policy orientations ultimately enacted outside of the workplace. In this regard, the number of authority tasks is inversely related to support for redistributive policy. Subsequent analyses, however, reveal this general pattern does not hold on the basis of race: less variation in policy support as well as greater levels of policy support is expressed by African Americans than Whites across all authority task levels. We conclude by discussing how our findings inform broader conceptions regarding the link between work, ideology, and politics, as well a deeper sociological sense of the attitudinal consequences of work and the underpinnings of tenets of American stratification ideology
Economics · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |