Why Do High-Income Democrats Support Redistribution? The Roles of Partisanship, Racial Attitudes and Fiscal Populism.

IF 3.3 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI:10.1111/1468-4446.70032

Karyn Vilbig

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Abstract

Since the 1990s, high-income individuals have increasingly sorted into the Democratic Party as a result of their socially liberal views. There is evidence that over time high-income Democrats have also liberalized in their economic attitudes, but the motivations behind this purported support remain unclear. This study uses a forced-choice conjoint experiment with an oversample of high-income respondents and takes the novel approach of pairing the experiment with cognitive interviews in order to explore why high-income Democrats support redistributive policies. Results show that the redistributive preferences of high-income Democrats look very similar to those of other Democrats. They prefer policies proposed by their own party. They want policies that are racially "fair," and sometimes define this to mean favoring Black recipients. Most of all, however, they are driven by a commitment to "fiscal populism," the idea that (increased) government spending should be funded by the most elite members of society.

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为什么高收入民主党人支持再分配？党派关系、种族态度和财政民粹主义的作用。

自20世纪90年代以来，高收入人群因其社会自由主义观点而越来越多地归入民主党。有证据表明，随着时间的推移，高收入的民主党人在经济态度上也自由化了，但这种所谓的支持背后的动机尚不清楚。本研究对高收入受访者进行了强制选择联合实验，并采用了将实验与认知访谈相结合的新颖方法，以探索高收入民主党人支持再分配政策的原因。结果显示，高收入民主党人的再分配偏好与其他民主党人非常相似。他们更喜欢本党提出的政策。他们希望政策在种族上“公平”，有时将其定义为偏袒黑人受助人。然而，最重要的是，它们是由对“财政民粹主义”的承诺所驱动的，这种观点认为（增加的）政府支出应该由社会中最精英的成员提供资金。

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British Journal of Sociology SOCIOLOGY-

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4.50

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4.80%

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