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  • 标题:Social Conflict and Redistributive Preferences Among Rich and Poor: Testing the Hypothesis of Acemoglu and Robinson
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  • 作者:Eiji Yamamura
  • 期刊名称:Journal of Applied Economics
  • 印刷版ISSN:1514-0326
  • 电子版ISSN:1667-6726
  • 出版年度:2016
  • 卷号:19
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:41-63
  • DOI:10.1016/S1514-0326(16)30002-2
  • 摘要:Acemoglu and Robinson (2000) provide their hypothesis that the political elite extend the franchise to avoid revolution or social unrest. For the purpose of empirically testing this hypothesis, the present paper explores how the degree of conflict between rich and poor people is associated with individual preferences for income redistribution and perceptions regarding income differences. This paper used cross-country individual-level data covering 26 countries. The key findings are as follows: (1) an individual is more likely to prefer income redistribution policy in countries where people perceive conflict between rich and poor to be high; (2) an individual is more likely to consider the income difference to be too large in countries where people perceive conflict between rich and poor to be high; and (3) after dividing the sample into high- and low-income earners, the above two findings are only obtained for high-income earners and not for low-income earners.
  • 关键词:D63 ; D74 ; H23 ; conflict ; income redistribution ; inequality ; perception
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