What makes elites more or less egalitarian? Variations in attitudes towards inequality within the economic, political and cultural elites in Chile

IF 3.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwae008

Rafael Carranza, Dante Contreras, Gabriel Otero

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This article investigates how the type of elite to which a person belongs and their intergenerational contextual experiences are associated with attitudes towards inequality among elite individuals. We propose that membership of the economic elite and access to private schools, higher education business schools and affluent residential areas may contribute to the development of views that favour inequality. Using unique survey data collected in 2018 from a sample of 416 individuals belonging to Chile’s economic, political and cultural elites, we construct an additive score to measure attitudes towards inequality. Results of our regression analyses indicate that individuals belonging to the economic and political elite are more tolerant of inequality than members of the cultural elite. Moreover, intergenerational experiences at both private schools and higher education business schools significantly contribute to the formation of attitudes that favour inequality. These contextual experiences also relate to significant attitudinal variations within all elite groups.

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是什么让精英们变得更加或更加不平等？智利经济、政治和文化精英对不平等的不同态度

本文研究了一个人所属的精英类型及其代际背景经历如何与精英个人对不平等的态度相关联。我们提出，经济精英的成员身份以及进入私立学校、高等教育商学院和富裕住宅区的机会，可能有助于形成赞成不平等的观点。利用 2018 年从属于智利经济、政治和文化精英的 416 人样本中收集的独特调查数据，我们构建了一个加法分数来衡量对不平等的态度。我们的回归分析结果表明，与文化精英成员相比，经济和政治精英成员对不平等的容忍度更高。此外，在私立学校和高等商学院的代际经历也会显著促进对不平等的态度的形成。这些背景经历也与所有精英群体内部的重大态度差异有关。

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