The Institutional Foundation of Social Class Differences in Pro-redistribution Attitudes: A Cross-National Analysis, 1985-2010.
Our understanding of cross-national differences in the relationship between social class location and voting choices has improved substantially in the last decade. Yet scholarship about cross-national and longitudinal variations in the relationship between class location and policy preferences remai...
| Published in: | Social Forces Vol. 96; no. 3; pp. 1009 - 1039 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2018
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