Replication data for: The externalities of inequality: Fear of crime and preferences for redistribution in Western Europe
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| Title: | Replication data for: The externalities of inequality: Fear of crime and preferences for redistribution in Western Europe |
| Date: | 4 June 2015 |
| Creator: |
Rueda, David ; Stegmueller, Daniel  ORCID: 0000-0003-3188-1253
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| Divisions: | School of Social Sciences > Politische Wissenschaft, Quantitative Sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden (Gschwend 2007-) |
| DDC Classification: |
300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology |
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| Abstract: | Why is the difference in redistribution preferences between the rich and the poor high in some countries and low in others? In this paper we argue that it has a lot to do with the rich and very little to do with the poor. We contend that while there is a general relative income effect on redistribution preferences, the preferences of the rich are highly dependent on the macro-level of inequality. The reason for this effect is not related to immediate tax and transfer considerations but to a negative externality of inequality: crime. We will show that the rich in more unequal regions in Western Europe are more supportive of redistribution than the rich in more equal regions because of their concern with crime. In making these distinctions between the poor and the rich, the arguments in this paper challenge some influential approaches to the politics of inequality. (English) |
| External Identifier for Data: | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RIOEAY |
| URL: | https://madata.bib.uni-mannheim.de/810/ |
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| Access (Controlled): | Only Metadata |
| License (Controlled): | Creative Commons: CC0 | Universal 1.0 (recommended) |
| Related Publication(s) in MADOC: | Rueda, David und Stegmueller, Daniel (2016), The externalities of enequality: Fear of crime and preferences for redistribution in Western Europe |
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| Notes: | This dataset underwent an independent verification process that replicated the tables and figures in the main article and those included in supplementary materials on which primary findings are contingent. The verification process was carried out by the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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| Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2026 10:24 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Apr 2026 10:24 |
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