Perceptions of Economic Inequality and Support for Redistribution: The role of Existential and Utopian Standards.
Perceived greater economic inequality is supposedly associated with higher demand for redistribution. However, the findings in the literature are mixed in this regard, with some researchers providing evidence in favour of this association and some findings evidence against it. Given that perceived e...
| Publicado en: | Social Justice Research Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 335 - 355 |
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