Predictors of Support for State Social Welfare Provision in Russia and China

Neil Munro

Europe-Asia Studies, 2017, vol. 69, issue 1, 53-75

Abstract: This essay analyses the determinants of support for state social welfare provision in Russia and China on the basis of a four-stage recursive model using two waves of the World Values Survey. It hypothesises that support is a function of economic self-interest, tapped by subjective economic satisfaction and relative income; ideology including beliefs about market fairness and inequality aversion; as well as temporal context. It finds that subjective economic satisfaction reduces support; inequality aversion is a positive influence, while beliefs about market fairness matter in different ways. Support increased over the period spanning the 2008 global financial crisis.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1265643

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