Support for social policies: Focusing on effects of group belonging

Naoki Sudo

Rationality and Society, 2022, vol. 34, issue 4, 501-525

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.

Keywords: political preferences; self-interest; group interest; community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/10434631221118648

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