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Behind the Support for Redistributive Politics: Social Preferences or Beliefs?

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  • Pablo Brañas-Garza
  • Antonio Cabrales
  • María Paz Espinosa
  • Teresa García-Muñoz

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In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran an incentivized experiment with a large representative sample of the Spanish population. Our participants took six decisions that elicited their social preferences. Their choices could result in a different total surplus and different distributions of the surplus between the subject and an anonymous counterpart. In our sample, social preferences are unrelated to political support for distributive policies. The main correlates for support of redistribution are the beliefs concerning the importance of effort versus luck for success (fairness), the trust in government institutions (effectiveness) and the perceived importance of the poverty problem (need).

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  • Pablo Brañas-Garza & Antonio Cabrales & María Paz Espinosa & Teresa García-Muñoz, 2024. "Behind the Support for Redistributive Politics: Social Preferences or Beliefs?," CESifo Working Paper Series 11238, CESifo.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ceswps:_11238
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    Keywords

    elicitation of social preferences; income distribution and politics; trust in government institutions;
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    JEL classification:

    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior

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