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

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的问题，相关的政策制定者和社会科学家考虑到不同的福利模式的出现后，在英国的权力下放。社会民主似乎在苏格兰，苏格兰SNP政府期待北欧国家的政策解决方案，以解决根深蒂固的社会不平等。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遵循或引导公众对苏格兰平等的态度？虽然这个令人烦恼的问题是很多争论，调查证据目前还远不清楚，需要进一步调查，以帮助了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的政策方向，苏格兰的价值观和态度可能变得更加团结，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，北欧国家对不平等/平等的态度应该与自由的英美世界的社会态度不同，在英美世界，公民更容易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质疑，需要进行新的经验比较和二手数据分析研究，以阐明这些问题，利用国际社会调查方案、英国社会态度调查和苏格兰社会态度调查的数据，本项目将：- 审查和报告公众对不平等的态度，在过去的四十年里，苏格兰和英格兰的再分配和政府角色发生了变化。苏格兰和英格兰的社会态度在多大程度上存在分歧？考虑态度的变化程度，并随着时间的推移在不同的部门和社会群体内部和国家之间发生了变化。从经验上考虑不平等程度上升的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是否会影响公众舆论，如果是，如何影响？检查福利制度的影响，并考虑苏格兰的态度在福利计划。

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.