More Inequality, Fewer Class Differences: The Paradox of Attitudes to Redistribution Across European Countries.
This article investigates how income inequality affects class differences in attitudes to redistribution. Drawing on the fourth wave (2008-09) of the European Values Study, it provides a multilevel analysis covering 44 nations. The main finding is that class differences in attitudes to redistributio...
| Published in: | Comparative Sociology Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 112 - 140 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2016
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