Eduardo Porter discusses new research on this, here. From his piece:
"In every one of the 26 nations, most of them in the developed world, for which they collected data, people believe that the income gap is smaller than it really is. And using perceived rather than actual inequality, the median voter theory works much better: Where people believe inequality is worse, governments tend to redistribute more."
Sean McElwee offers a nice rebuttal to the piece, here.
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