Fair Enough?

Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality

Charlotte Cavaillé (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

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English

Cambridge University Press
21 September 2023

Comparative politics

Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

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.

By: Charlotte Cavaillé (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 486g
ISBN: 9781009366045
ISBN 10: 1009366041
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 21 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Demand for redistribution in the age of inequality; I. Demand for redistribution: A conceptual framework: 2. What is fair; 3. Unpacking demand for redistribution; 4. As if self-interested? The correlates of fairness beliefs; 5. When material self-interest trumps fairness reasoning; II. Changes in demand for redistribution: 6. Explaining stability and change; 7. Fiscal stress and the erosion of social solidarity; 8. Partisan dynamics and mass attitudinal change; 9. How proportionality beliefs form; 10. The nature and origins of reciprocity beliefs; Conclusion; Index.

Charlotte Cavaillé is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.