Group interests, individual attitudes : how group memberships shape attitudes toward the welfare state

Group interests, individual attitudes : how group memberships shape attitudes toward the welfare state / Michael J. Donnelly.

This book asks how regional and ethnic inequality shape attitudes toward taxes and spending to reduce inequality.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Donnelly, Michael J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Welfare state > Public opinion.
Social groups > Political aspects.
Distribution (Economic theory) > Public opinion.
Identity politics.
Identity politics
Social groups > Political aspects
Welfare state > Public opinion
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Halftitle page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1. Group Memberships and Political Attitudes
  • 1.1 Politicized Groups
  • 1.2 Diversity, Inequality, and Politics
  • 1.3 Plan of the Book
  • 2. Groups, Interests, and Heuristics
  • 2.1 What Groups?
  • 2.2 A Heuristic Theory of Groups and Policy
  • 2.3 Empirical Plausibility of Heuristics
  • 3. Methods for Evaluating Cross-National Micro-Level Theories
  • 3.1 Developing and Testing Empirical Implications
  • 3.2 Empirical Implications and Nested Research Designs
  • 3.3 Characteristic-issue Design
  • 3.4 Case Selection
  • 3.5 Putting it Together
  • 4. Linked Fate and Economic Optimism
  • 4.1 Linked Fate's Origins
  • 4.2 How Prevalent is Linked Fate?
  • 4.3 Optimism and Group Membership
  • 4.4 Does it Matter if People Think Their Fates Are Linked?
  • 5. Group Incomes and Preferences for Redistribution
  • 5.1 Directly Testing the Group-Preferences Link
  • 5.2 What We Can Learn from Group Incomes and Individual Attitudes
  • 6. Within-Group Inequality, Prediction, and the Value of Heuristics
  • 6.1 What Inequality Tells Us about Heuristics
  • 6.2 Within-Group Inequality and Linked Fate
  • 6.3 Macro-Evidence of an Attenuating Effect of Inequality
  • 6.4 Salience and Within-Group Inequality
  • 7. Uncertainty, Labor Markets, and Group Heuristics
  • 7.1 Security and Groups
  • 7.2 Linked Fate and Uncertainty
  • 7.3 Rigid Labor Markets as Certainty
  • 7.4 Retirement as certainty
  • 7.5 Uncertainty and its Implications
  • 8. Politicians, Rhetoric, and Heuristics in a Complex World
  • 8.1 Opinion Leaders and Redistributive Heuristics
  • 8.2 Trust in Religious Leaders and Linked Fate
  • 8.3 Experimentally Manipulating Cleavages
  • 8.4 Salience and its Sources
  • 9. Federal Systems, Decentralization, and Heuristics.
  • 9.1 Decentralization, Federalism, and Heuristics
  • 9.2 Decentralization and Regional Income in Europe
  • 9.3 Devolution and Country Income Salience in the UK
  • 9.4 Regions, Federalism, and Political Competition
  • 10. Voter Heuristics and Group Politics in Global Focus
  • 10.1 How Groups Shape Politics
  • 10.2 How Society Shapes Groups
  • 10.3 How Redistributive Politics Shape Groups
  • 10.4 How Groups Shape the Welfare State
  • 10.5 Public Opinion in a Changing World
  • 10.6 Where Do Scholars Go from Here?
  • Appendix A
  • A.1 Applying Information-gathering to Income and Ideology
  • B.1 Surveys
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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