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May 15, 2024Journal of Elections Public Opinion and PartiesOpen Access

The quality of government conditions political disagreement over redistributive policies

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LALeo Ahrens

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Cross-national survey analysis demonstrates that government quality intensifies redistribution disagreements across 40 countries, indicating that institutional capacity polarizes public opinion.

Key Points

  • Preferences for redistributive policies become more heterogeneous and polarized in countries characterized by higher quality of government, reflecting stronger ideological divides.
  • Interaction regression models across 40 institutionally diverse countries show income and unfairness perceptions more strongly predict redistribution support under effective institutions.
  • Micro-level evidence highlights that robust public institutions amplify the economic left-right divide, demonstrating how administrative impartiality structures democratic public opinion.

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Leo Ahrens (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6a006b6db643587623ec8https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2024.2352451
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