Economic Development, Income Inequality, and Preferences for Redistribution.
Adopting a cross-regional and global perspective, this article critically evaluates one of the core assertions of political economy approaches to welfare—that support for redistribution is inversely related to income. We hypothesize that economic self-interest gives way to more uniform support for r...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 315 - 335 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2010
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