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Individual Preferences and the Welfare State

Political Psychology
Welfare State
Quantitative
P149
Alexandre Afonso
Departments of Political Science and Public Administration, Universiteit Leiden

Building: Wolfson Medical Building, Floor: 2, Room: Ganochy

Friday 15:50 - 17:30 BST (05/09/2014)

Abstract

This panel investigates the link between individual preferences and welfare state reforms, mostly using survey data. Proposed papers include the role of income concentration, labour market risks, and altruism in explaining preferences for redistribution.

Title Details
You Get What You Asked For: A Laboratory Experiment on Framing Effects in Voting on Income Redistribution View Paper Details
Over-Concentration of Income and Middle-Class Preferences for Redistribution View Paper Details
Individual Experience of Labor Market Risks and Political Preferences: A Longitudinal Approach View Paper Details
Are Successful Citizens More Altruistic? The Effect of Citizens’ Feeling about Themselves on Self-Interested Political Attitudes View Paper Details