Fair Enough

Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality

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ID6559397
AuthorsCharlotte Cavaille (0000-0003-1662-0346, University of Michigan, corresponding author)
Year2023
Publication date2023-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFair Enough? (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781009366038
OpenAlexW4386471434
Open LibraryOL46573063M, OL51577512M
ISBN9781009366069, 9781009366038
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Fair Enough? proposes and tests a new framework for studying attitudes toward redistributive social policies. These attitudes, the book argues, are shaped by at least two motives. First, people support policies that increase their own expected income. Second, they support policies that move the status quo closer to what is prescribed by shared norms of fairness. In most circumstances, saying the “fair thing” is easier than reasoning according to one's pocketbook. But there are important exceptions: when policies have large and certain pocketbook consequences, people take the self-interested position instead of the 'fair' one. Fair Enough? builds on this simple framework to explain puzzling attitudinal trends in post-industrial democracies including a decline in support for redistribution in Great Britain, the erosion of social solidarity in France, and a declining correlation between income and support for redistribution in the United States

Economic growth · Economics · Income Support · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Redistribution of income and wealth · Sociology · Solidarity · Status quo · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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