East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state … redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …

The Inequality Barometer is an online survey first conducted in Germany in 2020. It gauges individual perceptions of …. Our results indicate that there are substantial differences between how people in Germany perceive different aspects of … has critical policy implications for the future of the welfare state in Germany and elsewhere, in particular in the post …

East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state … redistribution and progressive taxation, and less likely to have a conservative political orientation, even conditional on having the …

We use cross-sectional data from 93 countries to study the relationship between how much redistribution citizens of … different socioeconomic status want and how much the government actually redistributes. We focus on redistribution because it is … bottom, rather than the median or upper, socioeconomic group’s preferences are most predictive of realized redistribution …

redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus … on redistribution arises from the inherent class conflicts it engenders in policy choices, allowing us to examine whose … realized redistribution. This finding contradicts the expectations of both leading experts and regular citizens. …