This study examines the extent to which individual's attitudes toward government responsibility for child care …, egalitarian ideology had the relatively strongest impact on the respondents' level of support for government provision of child … provisions are influenced by personal characteristics as well as the social contexts in which these attitudes are formed. The …

fairness and ideology, respectively. We also analyse the relation between the respective attitudes towards an increase in the …

structures and manifestations of ideology. The few studies which do include genetic sources of information imply that culture is …-related attitudes that form ideologies. The structure imposed by social influences corresponds to recognized definitions of liberalism … and conservatism on a left–right continuum; however, the genetic factor structure combines liberal attitudes toward sex …

Has Latin America’s left turn mattered in media politics? Does ideology impact governments’ practices and policies …-communication practices, and of media regulation policies on the part of the recent leftist governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile … governments in Latin America. In sum, the paper challenges the prevailing neglect of ideology as a relevant factor in explaining …

We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the … attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as …-interest, as individual's inequality attitudes depend not only on how much income they receive but also on how much they receive …

Government is an important institution in every society, but public trust in government has been declining worldwide …. Like social trust, institutional trust in government manifests in two forms—goodwill-based (based on intentions and … competence-based, institutional trust in government. Intercultural experience was negatively related to goodwill …

This paper empirically analyzes whether government size is conducive or detrimental to life satisfaction in a cross … involvement in – and regulation of – the economy, thereby harming their citizens' quality of life. Our results show that life … satisfaction decreases with higher government consumption. For low, middle income, and male people, this result is stronger when …

regulation, thereby harming voters’ quality of life. Our results show that life satisfaction decreases with higher government …This paper empirically analyzes the question whether government involvement in the economy is conducive or detrimental … neoclassical economic theory, which predicts that government plays an unambiguously positive role for individuals’ quality of life …