Who Wants What?
Redistribution Preferences in Comparative Perspective
Published on 17. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-108-72343-5 (ISBN)
Description
Why do some people support redistributive policies such as a generous welfare state, social policy or protections for the poor, and others do not? The (often implicit) model behind much of comparative politics and political economy starts with redistribution preferences. These affect how individuals behave politically and their behavior in turn affects the strategies of political parties and the policies of governments. This book challenges some influential interpretations of the political consequences of inequality. Rueda and Stegmueller provide a novel explanation of how the demand for redistribution is the result of expected future income, the negative externalities of inequality, and the relationship between altruism and population heterogeneity. This innovative and timely volume will be of great interest to readers interested in the political causes and consequences of inequality.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 50 Tables, black and white; 11 Plates, color; 49 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
492 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-72343-5 (9781108723435)
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David Rueda | Daniel Stegmueller
Who Wants What?
Redistribution Preferences in Comparative Perspective
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10/2019
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
David Rueda is Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Social Democracy Inside Out (2007) and has received numerous research awards, including a British Academy Research Development Award (2008-10). He has held visiting positions at the Centre d'Etudes Europeennes (Sciences Po, Paris), Yale University, Princeton University and Stanford University. Daniel Stegmueller is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Duke University, North Carolina. He is also a Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. His research has appeared in the Annual Review of Political Science, American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Public Opinion Quarterly, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.
Content
1. Introduction; Part I. Material Self-Interest: Redistribution and Insurance: 2. Income, income expectations, redistribution and insurance; 3. Income expectations as determinants of redistribution; Part II. Beyond Income: Externalities of Inequality: 4. Externalities and redistribution; 5. Analysis of externalities; Part III. Beyond Income: Population Heterogeneity: 6. Heterogeneity and redistribution; 7. Analysis of heterogeneity; Part IV. From Preferences to Voting: 8. The political consequences of redistribution demands; 9. Conclusion; Appendices.