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Attitudes Towards Equality
Author: Influence of Equality-related Literature on Student Attitudes Toward Equality
Author: Faith E. FramptonAnalysing Changing Public Attitudes Towards Equality and Intergroup Relations
Author: Hazel Moira WardropChanging Attitudes Towards Gender Equality in Japan and Germany
Author: Ulrich MöhwaldPublisher: IUDICIUM Verlag
ISBN: 3891298706
Category : Public opinion
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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Attitudes to Inequality and the Role of Government
Author: Duane Francis AlwinPublisher:
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Category : Equality
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Racial Attitudes in America
Author: Howard SchumanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674745681
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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This new edition brings fully up-to-date a book widely praised for its clear and objective presentation of changes in American racial attitudes during the second half of the twentieth century. The book retains the division of racial attitudes into principles of equality, government implementation of those principles, and social distance, but adds questions concerning affirmative action and beliefs about sources of inequality. A conceptual section now opens the book, evidence on social desirability has been added, and a new chapter deals with cohort effects and with the impact of income, education, and gender. In key instances, randomized experiments are introduced that test hypotheses more rigorously than is ordinarily possible with survey data. Throughout, the authors have reconsidered earlier ideas and introduced new thinking.
Beliefs about Inequality
Author: James R. KluegelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351328980
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Motivated by the desire to explain how Americans perceive and evaluate inequality and related programs and policies, the authors conducted a national survey of beliefs about social and economic inequality in America. Here they present the results of their research on the structure, determinants, and certain political and personal consequences of these beliefs. The presentations serve two major goals; to describe and explain the central features of Americans' images of inequality. Beliefs About Inequality begins with a focus on people's perceptions of the most basic elements of inequality: the availability of opportunity in society, the causes of economic achievements, and the benefits and costs of equality and inequality. The book's analysis of the public's beliefs on these key issues is based on fundamental theories of social psychology and lays the groundwork for understanding how Americans evaluate inequality-related policies. The authors discuss the ultimate determinants of beliefs and the implications of their findings for social policies related to inequality. They propose that attitudes toward economic inequality and related policy are influenced by three major aspects of the current American social, economic, and political environment: a stable "dominant ideology" about economic inequality; individuals' social and economic status; and specific beliefs and attitudes, often reflecting "social liberalism" shaped by recent political debates and events.
Attitudes to Equality: The "Socialist Legacy" Revisited
Author: Mamta MurthiPublisher: World Bank Publications
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Category : Corporation law
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Abstract: It is routinely assumed that residents of post-socialist countries have a preference for greater income equality, other things being equal, owing to the legacy of socialism. This proposition is examined in the context of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union using data from three waves of the World Values Survey. Contrary to expectations, the authors find little evidence of a 'socialist legacy' en bloc. Considering the former Soviet Union separately from other post-socialist countries, the analysis finds that as a group these countries display significantly lower preference for moving toward greater income equality than both Eastern Europe and other comparator groups (developed and developing countries). These findings hold up even when controlling for the conventional determinants of attitudes such as income level and employment status of the individual respondent, as well as national factors such as per-capita income and its distribution. Moreover, the preference for greater income inequality appears to have persisted at least since the mid-1990s and possibly since the early 1990s (data difficulties preclude a robust examination of this latter question). The results are consistent with the fairly low levels of public spending on redistribution commonly found in the former Soviet Union.
Equality in America
Author: Sidney VerbaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674259614
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Verba and Orren dissect American attitudes toward equality by placing those beliefs in historical context and demonstrating a relationship between political and economic equality. The book is based on a study of leaders from all significant sectors of American society.
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