Support for social policies: Focusing on effects of group belonging

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2022-08-10 DOI:10.1177/10434631221118648

Naoki Sudo

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Abstract

This study aims to elucidate the structure of support for social policies (redistribution and free competition), focusing on the role of community interests (especially demographic decline). To this end, Japan was selected as a case study because it has the highest proportion of the elderly population in the world. The author analyzed data from the National Survey of Social Stratification and Social Mobility in 2015 and the Population Census for the same year, employing ordered logit models. The results revealed that people living in demographically declining communities were more likely to support redistribution and less likely to endorse free competition, compared to individuals from other communities. Furthermore, compared to the underprivileged, wealthy individuals were more likely to consider community interests irrespective of individual benefits. This finding demonstrates that community interests may have a significant influence on individuals’ policy preferences.

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社会政策支持:关注群体归属效应

本研究旨在阐明支持社会政策的结构(再分配和自由竞争)，重点是社区利益的作用(特别是人口下降)。为此，选择日本作为案例研究，因为它是世界上老年人口比例最高的国家。作者采用有序logit模型对2015年全国社会分层与社会流动调查数据和同年人口普查数据进行分析。结果显示，与来自其他社区的人相比，生活在人口减少社区的人更有可能支持再分配，而不太可能支持自由竞争。此外，与弱势群体相比，富人更有可能考虑社区利益，而不考虑个人利益。这一发现表明，社区利益可能对个人的政策偏好有显著影响。

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Rationality and Society SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Rationality & Society focuses on the growing contributions of rational-action based theory, and the questions and controversies surrounding this growth. Why Choose Rationality and Society? The trend toward ever-greater specialization in many areas of intellectual life has lead to fragmentation that deprives scholars of the ability to communicate even in closely adjoining fields. The emergence of the rational action paradigm as the inter-lingua of the social sciences is a remarkable exception to this trend. It is the one paradigm that offers the promise of bringing greater theoretical unity across disciplines such as economics, sociology, political science, cognitive psychology, moral philosophy and law.