Why do some people support government redistribution more than others? This article
addresses this question with reference to attitudes towards redistributive tax policy. In doing …

While the drivers of preferences about tax progressivity and redistribution are well identified,
the study of willingness to pay taxes remains underdeveloped. This article uses the 2016 …

It is difficult to measure public views on trade‐offs between spending priorities because
public understanding of existing government spending is limited and the budgetary problem …

We study the factors that influence willingness to pay to improve public health care in 29
post‐communist countries, Eastern and Southern Europe, and Eurasia using 2 up‐to‐date …

One of the ways to improve the financial sustainability of public healthcare services is to
increase taxes, as health systems are subject to mounting financial strain, especially in …

Prior research has shown that citizens demand more public spending for government
services but are unwilling to support tax increases to cover the increased costs. Yet the basis …

The Nordic countries share a number of distinguishing features. With their small economies,
well-developed welfare states and organized labour markets, they have given rise to the …

Analyses of attitudes to the Swedish welfare state were slow to get off the ground. 1
Although election studies and other general surveys had occasionally surveyed welfare …

The aim of this paper is to explore whether support for the welfare state is lower if people are
made aware of its costs. Using data from a series of survey experiments in the German …

The research literature discusses two opposite hypotheses regarding the possible effects of
healthcare quality on the willingness to pay more taxes to improve public healthcare. One …