Politics of Universal and Unconditional Cash Transfer: Examining Attitudes Toward Universal Basic Income

IF 1 Q3 ECONOMICS

Basic Income Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-06 DOI:10.1515/bis-2021-0013

Soomi Lee

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a periodic cash payment to all residents in a jurisdiction, without obligation. Universalism and unconditionality distinguish UBI from other redistributive policies that require means testing and certain behaviors to gain and maintain eligibility. Despite an increased interest in UBI, it is poorly understood how these two critical features – universalism and unconditionality – influence public attitudes toward UBI. This paper explores results of the eighth round of the European Social Survey and finds that people who support unconditionality are more likely to support UBI, as expected. But support for UBI is also significantly associated with a desire to help the poor rather than provide universal cash transfers to all individuals.

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普遍和无条件现金转移的政治:对普遍基本收入的态度

全民基本收入(UBI)是一种定期向辖区内所有居民支付的无义务现金支付。普遍性和无条件性将UBI与其他再分配政策区分开来，这些政策需要进行经济状况调查和某些行为来获得和保持资格。尽管人们对全民基本收入的兴趣越来越大，但人们对这两个关键特征——普遍性和无条件性——如何影响公众对全民基本收入的态度却知之甚少。本文探讨了第八轮欧洲社会调查的结果，发现支持无条件的人更有可能支持UBI，正如预期的那样。但对全民基本收入的支持也与帮助穷人的愿望密切相关，而不是向所有人提供普遍的现金转移支付。

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Basic Income Studies ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

18.20%

发文量

期刊介绍： Basic income is a universal income grant available to every citizen without means test or work requirement. Academic discussion of basic income and related policies has been growing in the fields of economics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and public policy over the last few decades — with dozens of journal articles published each year, and basic income constituting the subject of more than 30 books in the last 10 years. In addition, the political discussion of basic income has been expanding through social organizations, NGOs and other advocacy groups. Internationally, recent years have witnessed the endorsement of basic income by grassroots movements as well as government officials in developing countries such as Brazil or South-Africa. As the community of people working on this issue has been expanding all over the world, incorporating grassroots activists, high profile academics — including several Nobel Prize winners in economics — and policymakers, the amount of high quality research on this topic has increased considerably. In the light of such extensive scholarship on this topic, the need to coordinate research efforts through a journal specifically devoted to basic income and cognate policies became pressing. Basic Income Studies (BIS) is the first academic journal to focus specifically on basic income and cognate policies.