Group interests, individual attitudes : how group memberships shape attitudes toward the welfare state / Michael J. Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donnelly, Michael J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--Public opinion.

Welfare state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This book asks how regional and ethnic inequality shape attitudes toward taxes and spending to reduce inequality.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

1. Group Memberships and Political Attitudes

1.1 Politicized Groups

1.2 Diversity, Inequality, and Politics

1.3 Plan of the Book

2. Groups, Interests, and Heuristics

2.1 What Groups?

2.2 A Heuristic Theory of Groups and Policy

2.3 Empirical Plausibility of Heuristics

3. Methods for Evaluating Cross-National Micro-Level Theories

3.1 Developing and Testing Empirical Implications

3.2 Empirical Implications and Nested Research Designs

3.3 Characteristic-issue Design

3.4 Case Selection

3.5 Putting it Together

4. Linked Fate and Economic Optimism

4.1 Linked Fate's Origins

4.2 How Prevalent is Linked Fate?

4.3 Optimism and Group Membership

4.4 Does it Matter if People Think Their Fates Are Linked?

5. Group Incomes and Preferences for Redistribution

5.1 Directly Testing the Group-Preferences Link

5.2 What We Can Learn from Group Incomes and Individual Attitudes

6. Within-Group Inequality, Prediction, and the Value of Heuristics

6.1 What Inequality Tells Us about Heuristics

6.2 Within-Group Inequality and Linked Fate

6.3 Macro-Evidence of an Attenuating Effect of Inequality

6.4 Salience and Within-Group Inequality

7. Uncertainty, Labor Markets, and Group Heuristics

7.1 Security and Groups

7.2 Linked Fate and Uncertainty

7.3 Rigid Labor Markets as Certainty

7.4 Retirement as certainty

7.5 Uncertainty and its Implications

8. Politicians, Rhetoric, and Heuristics in a Complex World

8.1 Opinion Leaders and Redistributive Heuristics

8.2 Trust in Religious Leaders and Linked Fate

8.3 Experimentally Manipulating Cleavages

8.4 Salience and its Sources

9. Federal Systems, Decentralization, and Heuristics.

9.1 Decentralization, Federalism, and Heuristics

9.2 Decentralization and Regional Income in Europe

9.3 Devolution and Country Income Salience in the UK

9.4 Regions, Federalism, and Political Competition

10. Voter Heuristics and Group Politics in Global Focus

10.1 How Groups Shape Politics

10.2 How Society Shapes Groups

10.3 How Redistributive Politics Shape Groups

10.4 How Groups Shape the Welfare State

10.5 Public Opinion in a Changing World

10.6 Where Do Scholars Go from Here?

Appendix A

A.1 Applying Information-gathering to Income and Ideology

B.1 Surveys

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-191868-7

0-19-264995-7

OCLC:

1259322138