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Replication Data for: Welfare Regimes and Support for Income Redistribution in Europe

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Title Replication Data for: Welfare Regimes and Support for Income Redistribution in Europe
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/S2EF8R
 
Creator Petrúšek, Ivan
Kudrnáč, Aleš
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Income redistribution and changes in redistributive policies are highly contested issues that often have a bearing on societal debate and electoral competition. Using European Social Survey data, we trace trends in public attitudes towards income redistribution in 18 European states from 2002 to 2019, which saw the Great Recession, the 2015 migrant crisis and an increase in income inequality. Although attitudes towards income redistribution were relatively stable, trends presented by countries grouped by welfare regime display considerable variation both among countries and among welfare regimes. We also trace trends in public support for redistribution by income groups and gauge the strength of belief in meritocracy and egalitarianism. The level of redistribution support among middle-income residents is similar to redistribution support of low-income residents, most notably in post-communist and social-democratic regimes. While egalitarianism is most widespread in the Mediterranean regime, meritocracy is most common in liberal and conservative regimes.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Petrúšek, Ivan