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Race, prejudice and attitudes toward redistribution: A comparative experimental approach
dc.contributor.authorHarell, Allison
dc.contributor.authorSoroka, Stuart
dc.contributor.authorIyengar, Shanto
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-17T21:20:35Z
dc.date.available2018-01-08T19:47:52Zen
dc.date.issued2016-11
dc.identifier.citationHarell, Allison ; Soroka, Stuart ; Iyengar, Shanto (2016). "Race, prejudice and attitudes toward redistribution: A comparative experimental approach." European Journal of Political Research 55(4): 723-744.
dc.identifier.issn0304-4130
dc.identifier.issn1475-6765
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/134286
dc.description.abstractPast work suggests that support for welfare in the United States is heavily influenced by citizens’ racial attitudes. Indeed, the idea that many Americans think of welfare recipients as poor Blacks (and especially as poor Black women) has been a common explanation for Americans’ lukewarm support for redistribution. This article draws on a new online survey experiment conducted with national samples in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada, designed to extend research on how racialised portrayals of policy beneficiaries affect attitudes toward redistribution. A series of innovative survey vignettes has been designed that experimentally manipulate the ethno‐racial background of beneficiaries for various redistributive programmes. The findings provide, for the first time, cross‐national, cross‐domain and cross‐ethno‐racial extensions of the American literature on the impact of racial cues on support for redistributive policy. The results also demonstrate that race clearly matters for policy support, although its impact varies by context and by the racial group under consideration.
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.
dc.publisherDoubleday
dc.subject.othersurvey experiments
dc.subject.otherredistributive policy
dc.subject.otherracial prejudice
dc.titleRace, prejudice and attitudes toward redistribution: A comparative experimental approach
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollow
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPolitical Science
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Reviewed
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1475-6765.12158
dc.identifier.sourceEuropean Journal of Political Research
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