Distrust in State Capacity and Low Support for Redistribution

But even in countries where citizens favor more equal income distribution, high levels of corruption and inefficiencies at the state level jeopardize support ...

Two reasons for low support: • Preferences: Low inequality aversion. • (Dis)trust: Government not able to monitor and conduct alternative ...

Inequality Narratives, Fairness, and Support for Redistribution in Six ...

Research on social policy attitudes, as on many other topics, has been dominated by surveys carried out in the United States. With a comparative ...

Why People Vote Against Redistributive Policies That Would Benefit ...

In all surveys described here, trust in government in the United States in general is abysmally low. ... This significantly lowers support for ...

State Capacity and Liberal Democracy: Where Does America Stand ...

A second finding is that, by and large, the data do not support a claim that autocracies can make up in superior state capacity for what they ...

Attitudinal polarization towards the redistributive role of the state in ...

While preferred levels of redistribution have remained largely stable, our results indicate major shifts and growing ideological polarization ...

State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the ...

In the early years of the American federal state, Presidents and their cabinet (the principals) had low moni- toring capacity in their relationship with federal ...

Does Trust in Government Affect Support for Redistribution? Results ...

Scholars have theorized that distrust of government is one potential mechanism. Across three independent survey experiments (N = 3,741), we find that large ...

Income Inequality and Political Trust: Do Fairness Perceptions Matter?

While the effects of economic insecurity on preferences for redistribution and political behavior are frequently studied (Marx, 2014; Vlandas & ...

Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate ...

When can states implement policies against the opposition from powerful interest groups? Research on state capacity has examined ...

Well-being and State Effectiveness | The World Happiness Report

Political instability is often the result of violent contests for state power, as seen, e.g., in Afghanistan. Low state capacity and pervasive conflict limit ...

Trust as state capacity: The political economy of compliance

They envisaged this process as akin to investing in infrastructure to support state effectiveness. ... low trust is low compliance, rather than ...

Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

In the “American” equilib- rium, people believe that effort is the main source of income, and accordingly they support low redistribution and low taxes. As a ...

Economic and cultural determinants of elite attitudes toward ...

Although elites acknowledge these negative effects, their support for redistributive policies remains low throughout the Global South. We ...

Legibility and the Informational Foundations of State Capacity

Recent research in political science has stressed the importance of the state in curbing violence and promoting social and economic development, ...

Perception of corruption and public support for redistribution in Latin ...

By distorting the redistributive role of government, corruption creates more inequality, deepening the need and perhaps the demand for further redistribution, ...

Does Trust in Government Increase Support for Redistribution ...

An established theory in political science holds that Americans' distrust of government decreases their support for redistribution, but empirical support draws ...

An updated OECD framework on drivers of trust in public institutions ...

... government, parliament, civil service and police; 2017-20. Note: Data sorted left to right by trust in national government (high to low). Data collected ...

REDISTRIBUTION FOR REALISTS - Yale Law School

See Zachary Liscow, Note, Reducing Inequality on the Cheap: When Legal Rule Design. Should Incorporate Equity as Well as Efficiency, 123 YALE ...

Does public trust in government matter for effective policy-making?

Supporting fiscal capacity via tax morale is one example of how voluntary compliance enhances state capacity via trust in government. But ...