Attitudinal Ambivalence on Redistribution: Causes and Electoral Implications Across Europe.
While support for redistribution remains high across Europe, voting for left-wing parties, traditionally identified with this agenda, has been under par. Past research explains this puzzle by class-based disagreements about redistributive priorities and by second-dimension attitudes. These explanati...
| Publicado en: | Comparative Political Studies Vol. 56; no. 11; pp. 1631 - 1663 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2023
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