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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"perceptions of inequality"”.
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Do Perceptions of Inequality Negatively Affect Interpersonal Trust?
… the relationship between interpersonal trust and inequality make use of objective or societal measures such as the Gini coefficient, and the effect of individual assessments of inequality has thus far received much less academic attention. Using data from the Round 5 Afrobarometer survey, I …
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Trust and Inequality: Are Perceptions of Inequality Influencing Trust?
… a significant relationship between trust and inequality at both the individual and national levels (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2010), but it is unclear whether the absence of trust produces inequality or vice versa. Large social surveys, such as the General Social Survey, that attempt to measure …
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Crafting public perceptions of inequality: analysis of Korean beliefs about income inequality
… major capitalist democracies has identified one of the key elements of legitimacy of the capitalist economic order in public opinion: popular adherence to the norms and beliefs that justify economic inequality. Popular commitment to those norms and beliefs in a society, scholars have suggested, …
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UNEQUAL EXPERIENCES: HOW SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS SHAPE PEOPLE¿S ATTITUDES TOWARDS INEQUALITY
… individuals' attitudes towards inequality. It fills a critical gap in distributive justice research by exploring the effects of the socioeconomic composition of acquaintances, social network size, and life course exposure to diverse social groups on perceptions of inequality, …
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Three Essays on Democracy, Inequality, and Redistribution in Developed Countries
The purpose of this thesis is to lay the empirical foundations for exploring the dynamics of democracy, inequality, and redistribution in advanced countries. The thesis consists of three main essays: The first essay provides a new measure of democracy that captures the dynamics of democracy in …
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Safe School Building Characteristics in Virginia's Elementary Schools: Architect and Principal Perspectives
… environment where faculty and staff, members of the community, and students perceive that they are safe. School safety is an important topic for both school administrators and architects who design schools. Previous research into the physical environment of a school has explored its impact on …
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Inequality in Perspective: Rethinking Inequality Measurement, Minimum Wages and Elites in Mexico
The role of inequality in development has been the subject of long-standing debates in academic and policy circles. Notwithstanding disagreements about exactly how the two are linked, conventional wisdom agrees that inequality is an objective ‘fact’ that can be measured free from ideological …