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ECONOMICS & POLITICS
卷 30, 期 1, 页码 27-54出版社
WILEY PERIODICALS, INC
DOI: 10.1111/ecpo.12103
关键词
biased perceptions; income distribution; inequality; preferences for redistribution; public policy
资金
- NRU HSE Basic Research Program
- UCLA College of Letters and Sciences
A vast literature suggests that economic inequality has important consequences for politics and public policy. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in dictatorships. Most such arguments crucially assume that ordinary people know how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large, cross-national surveys, we show that, in recent years, ordinary people have had little idea about such things. What they think they know is often wrong. Widespread ignorance and misperceptions emerge robustly, regardless of data source, operationalization, and measurement method. Moreover, perceived inequalitynot the actual levelcorrelates strongly with demand for redistribution and reported conflict between rich and poor. We suggest that most theories about political effects of inequality need to be reframed as theories about effects of perceived inequality.
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