How Race Matters for Elites' Views on Redistribution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5609978 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Teeger (0000-0002-5046-8280, Department of Methodology London School of Economics and Political Science London UK, corresponding author), Livio Silva‐muller (0000-0002-7067-8162, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and Department of Anthropology & Sociology Geneva Graduate Institute Geneva Switzerland), Graziella Moraes Silva (0000-0003-3191-6022, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and Department of Anthropology & Sociology Geneva Graduate Institute Geneva Switzerland) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1100-1117 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-4446.70012 |
| PMID | 40794026 |
| OpenAlex | W4413106406 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 73 |
Elites are increasingly visible in academic and political discourse owing to their disproportionate power in shaping policy. For the most part, however, elites have been viewed in race-blind terms. In this paper, we advance a racialized perspective on elite studies by highlighting three salient ways that race matters for elite views on inequality and redistribution. First, we focus on elites as racialized actors whose racial identities impact their perspectives on social policies. Second, we examine the effect of holding a historical perspective of racialized inequality on elites' redistributive preferences. Third, we highlight the importance of attending to the racialization of social policies, distinguishing between redistributive measures framed in race-neutral and race-conscious terms. We demonstrate the utility of a racialized approach to elite studies by analyzing survey data collected from political, economic, and civil service elites in South Africa. Findings show that elites' racialized identities shape their redistributive preferences, as do their historical understandings of racialized inequality, but these effects vary depending on whether elites are evaluating race-conscious or race-neutral policies
Criminology · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Redistribution (election · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Citation velocity | current |
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