Public Attitudes Towards Social Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality: Britain and Scotland in Comparative Perspectiv

公众对社会不平等的态度和不平等时代对再分配的偏好：比较视角下的英国和苏格兰

• 批准号: 2738269
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Strathclyde
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2738269
• 关键词: Public; Attitudes; Towards; Social; Inequality

This comparative PhD secondary datasets analysis project addresses a number of pressing theoretical and policy related questions of relevance to policy-makers and social scientists given the emergence of different models of welfare following devolution in the UK.Social democracy seemingly flourishes in Scotland, as the Scottish SNP Government looks to the Nordic countries for policy solutions to tackle entrenched inequality in society. This raises a number of important questions. Firstly, to what extent is the SNP following or leading public attitudes towards in/equality in Scotland? While this vexing question is much debated, the survey evidence is far from clear at present and requires further investigation to help understand attitude formation and change. Second, the idea or notion of growing policy divergence between the UK-nations implies that values and attitudes in Scotland may be becoming more solidaristic and less individualistic given the direction of SNP policy, but are they? According to social/political theory, we might expect to find Scottish attitudes and values are now increasingly comparable to those found in the Nordic nations (i.e., the more egalitarian of the OECD member countries), while attitudes towards in/equality in the Nordic countries should be distinct from social attitudes found in the liberal Anglo-American world, where citizens are more accepting of the advantages of markets and the inequalities they generate. However, such notions are vigorously contested at present and new empirical comparative and secondary data analysis research is needed to shed important light on the issues.Using data taken from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), the British Social Attitudes (BSA) surveys and the Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) surveys, this project will:-Examine and report on how public attitudes to inequality, redistribution and the role of government in Scotland and England have changed over the past four decades. To what extent are aggregate social attitudes diverging between Scotland and England?-Consider the extent to which attitudes vary and have changed over time across different sections and social groups within and between nations.-Consider empirically the relationship between trends in the level of rising inequality and changing social attitudes. Does a rise or fall in the level of inequality influence public opinion, and, if so, how?-Examine for welfare regime affects and consider Scottish attitudes within the welfare schema.

这个比较博士二级数据集分析项目解决了一些紧迫的理论和政策相关问题，这些问题与政策制定者和社会科学家有关，因为英国权力下放后出现了不同的福利模式。社会民主主义似乎在苏格兰蓬勃发展，苏格兰民族党政府正在向北欧国家寻求解决社会根深蒂固的不平等问题的政策解决方案。这就提出了一些重要的问题。首先，苏格兰民族党在多大程度上追随或引领了公众对苏格兰男女平等的态度？虽然这个令人烦恼的问题有很多争论，但目前的调查证据还远远不够清楚，需要进一步的调查来帮助理解态度的形成和变化。其次，英国国家之间政策分歧日益扩大的想法或概念意味着，考虑到苏格兰民族党政策的方向，苏格兰的价值观和态度可能会变得更加团结，而不是个人主义，但事实果真如此吗？根据社会/政治理论，我们可能会发现苏格兰的态度和价值观现在越来越接近北欧国家（即经合组织成员国中更平等的国家），而北欧国家对平等的态度应该与自由的英美世界的社会态度不同，英美世界的公民更接受市场的优势及其产生的不平等。然而，这些概念目前受到激烈的争议，需要新的实证比较和二手数据分析研究来阐明这些问题。使用来自国际社会调查计划（ISSP）、英国社会态度（BSA）调查和苏格兰社会态度（SSA）调查的数据，该项目将：-检查和报告公众对不平等、再分配和苏格兰和英格兰政府角色的态度在过去四十年中的变化。苏格兰和英格兰之间的总体社会态度分歧到什么程度？-考虑国家内部和国家之间不同阶层和社会群体的态度随时间变化的程度。-从经验上考虑不平等程度上升趋势与社会态度变化之间的关系。不平等程度的上升或下降会影响公众舆论吗？如果会，又是如何影响的？-检查福利制度的影响，并考虑苏格兰在福利模式中的态度。