Redistribution, Tax Policy and the Vote

The 2012 French Presidential Election

Bibliographic Data

ID6309196
AuthorsÉtienne Guillaud (0000-0002-4875-1458), Nicolas Sauger (0000-0001-5178-195X)
Year2013
Volume66
Issue1
Pages87-105
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueParliamentary Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-2290 • E-ISSN: 1460-2482
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pa/gss069
OpenAlexW3121517454
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

As tax policy is one of the most prominent issues for France at a time of great economic crisis and public debt, this article analyses how redistribution has been viewed and considered by voters. Assuming three main hypotheses about attitudes towards redistribution (egotropic perspective, sociotropic perspective and voter incompetence), we propose a series of empirical tests of these various explanations from a cross-sectional survey fielded after the election. Despite a rather low salience of this issue during the campaign, we show that voters demonstrate quite coherent attitudes in this area. Preferences for redistribution are linked to individuals’ socio-economic positions, to their beliefs about the effects of taxation, and lead to consistent vote decisions in 2012

Debt · Economics · Macroeconomics · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential election · Presidential system · Public economics · Redistribution (election · Salience (neuroscience · Tax policy · Tax reform · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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