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 Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 158mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 600g ISBN:9781009366069 ISBN 10: 1009366068 Series:Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Pages: 300 Publication Date:21 September 2023 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Charlotte Cavaillé is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.