Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality.

ABSTRACT: In most contemporary societies, people underestimate the extent of economic inequality, resulting in lower support for taxation and redistribution than might be expressed by better informed citizens. We still know little, however, about how understandings of inequality arise, and therefore about where perceptions and misperceptions of it might come from. This methodological article takes one step toward filling this gap by developing a research design-a blueprint-to study how people's understandings of wealth and income inequality develop through social interaction. Our approach combines insights from recent scholarship highlighting the socially situated character of inequality beliefs with those of survey experimental work testing how information about inequality changes people's understa

SUBMITTER: Summers K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8972749 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature