The Formative Years, Economic Hardship, and Beliefs about the Government’s Role in Lessening Poverty
The Formative Years, Economic Hardship, and Beliefs about the Government’s Role in Lessening Poverty
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成长岁月、经济困难以及对政府减贫作用的信念
DOI：
10.1093/socpro/spw008
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发表时间：
2016
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
C. Campbell
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作者：
C. Campbell
关于政府努力减少贫困的信念的现有研究在两个重要方面受到限制。首先，对反贫困努力信念的解释主要集中在当前背景下。由于强调当代背景，现有的研究忽视了过去经验的潜在深远影响。其次，大多数现有研究依赖于横截面数据，这限制了对人的内部变化的理解。在这里提出的研究中，我使用来自综合社会调查的横断面和面板数据来(1)检验过去的经历如何塑造个人对政府应该如何应对贫困的信念，以及(2)检验关于政府在帮助穷人方面的角色的信念是否对微观和宏观经济困难的变化敏感。根据与形成期和事件驱动型变化相关的理论，我发现青春期后期的经历、宏观经济困难的增加以及个人困难的增加都会影响对政府减轻贫困努力的支持；但是，当前的客观和主观经济地位尤为重要。此外，我还发现不同类型的政府对贫困的支持存在差异。特别是，“福利”是唯一不受欢迎的，对福利的支持对代际经历或个人层面困难的变化反应较小。
Existing research on beliefs about government efforts to lessen poverty is limited in two important ways. First, explanations of beliefs about antipoverty efforts largely focus on current contexts. By emphasizing contemporary contexts, existing research overlooks the potentially profound effect of past experiences. Second, most existing research relies on cross-sectional data, which limits understandings of within person change. In the research presented here, I use both cross-sectional and panel data from the General Social Survey to (1) examine how past experiences shape an individual’s belief about what the government should do about poverty, and (2) examine whether beliefs about the government’s role in helping the poor are sensitive to changes in micro and macroeconomic hardship. Drawing on theories related to the formative years and event-driven changes, I find that experiences during late adolescence, increases in macro-level economic hardship, and increases in individual hardship all influence support for government efforts to lessen poverty; however, current objective and subjective economic position is particularly important. Moreover, I find variation in support across different types of government responses to poverty. In particular, “welfare” is uniquely unpopular, and support for welfare is less responsive to generational experiences or changes in individual-level hardship.
影响因子：
7.6
作者：
J. Krosnick;D. Alwin
通讯作者：
J. Krosnick;D. Alwin