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Zitierlink DOI
10.26092/elib/2292
Verlagslink DOI
10.1093/ser/mwx063

Welfare state structure, inequality, and public attitudes towards progressive taxation

Veröffentlichungsdatum
2018-01-17
Autoren
Berens, Sarah  
Gelepithis, Margarita  
Zusammenfassung
Recent research indicates that while higher tax levels are politically unpopular, greater tax progressivity is not. However, there remain unanswered questions regarding public support for more progressive taxation. In particular, little is known about how individual attitudes towards tax progressivity are affected by their institutional context. Building on existing theories of redistribution, this article develops the argument that the structure of the welfare state shapes public attitudes towards progressive taxation—support for progressive taxation among both average and high-income households is undermined by ‘pro-poor’ welfare spending. We support our argument with a cross-sectional analysis of rich democracies, interacting household income with country-level indicators of welfare state structure. In doing so, we contribute a micro-level explanation for the paradoxical macro-level phenomenon that larger, more redistributive welfare states tend to be financed by less progressive tax systems.
Schlagwörter
progressive taxation

; 

individual attitudes

; 

Welfare State

; 

income inequality
Verlag
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Institution
andere Institution  
Dokumenttyp
Artikel/Aufsatz
Zeitschrift/Sammelwerk
Socio-Economic Review  
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823
Endseite
850
Zweitveröffentlichung
Ja
Dokumentversion
Postprint
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Sprache
Englisch
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