One proposition of the popular median-voter hypothesis is a positive relationship between
demand for redistribution and levels of inequality. However, empirical evidence of this …

This article reviews assumptions, contributions, and impasses of the two most important
theories of capitalist diversity: Esping-Andersen's (1990) welfare regime and Hall and …

In this article, we investigate public support for eco-social policies combining goals of social
justice and ecological sustainability. Eco-social policies contribute both to providing a social …

Objective This article explores how income inequality and social mobility affect attitudes
about redistribution in global perspective. Methods Individual‐level data on over 50,000 …

Present debates suppose a close linkage between economic, social, and environmental
sustainability and suggest that individual wellbeing and living standards need to be …

Based on earlier, mainly aggregate analyses, conventional wisdom previously held that
income inequality reduces happiness. But aggregate models consistently yield misleading …

How tightly linked are the strength of a country's welfare state and its residents' support for
income redistribution? Multilevel model results (with appropriate controls) show that the …

In times of emergent emphases on how climate change will affect welfare societies, welfare
policies and individuals' welfare and vice versa, this study investigates public support for …

Scholars and public figures have drawn attention to lower social spending in more ethnically
diverse countries, and explicitly or implicitly claimed that this resulted from a lack of public …

We revisit a longstanding hypothesis that the public become more supportive of
redistributive policy as income inequality rises. Previous tests of this hypothesis using …