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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2023
      September 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009366038
      9781009366069
      9781009366045
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366038
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 298 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 298 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
      Subjects:
      Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Subjects:
    Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Fair Enough? proposes and tests a new framework for studying attitudes toward redistributive social policies. These attitudes, the book argues, are shaped by at least two motives. First, people support policies that increase their own expected income. Second, they support policies that move the status quo closer to what is prescribed by shared norms of fairness. In most circumstances, saying the “fair thing” is easier than reasoning according to one's pocketbook. But there are important exceptions: when policies have large and certain pocketbook consequences, people take the self-interested position instead of the 'fair' one. Fair Enough? builds on this simple framework to explain puzzling attitudinal trends in post-industrial democracies including a decline in support for redistribution in Great Britain, the erosion of social solidarity in France, and a declining correlation between income and support for redistribution in the United States.

    Awards

    Winner, 2024 Class and Inequality Best Book Award, American Political Science Association

    Co-winner, 2024 Best Book on European Politics, American Political Science Association

    Honorable Mention, 2024 Luebbert Book Prize, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association

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    ‘Recommended.’

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    • 1 - Demand for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality
      pp 1-26
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