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Jan 25 2019

DPA Research & Policy Seminar Series: Meghan Condon

January 25, 2019

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Location

Lower Level, Conference room 1, CUPPA Hall

Address

Chicago, IL 60607

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Join us for the DPA Research and Policy Seminar Series featuring Meghan Condon from Loyola.

Income inequality is fundamentally relational in nature, but research on the American public response to it tends to examine individuals in isolation, concluding that support for redistribution is unresponsive to inequality because Americans either don’t know or don’t care about growing economic divides. The Economic Other presents an alternative explanation: response to inequality has been anemic because Americans are increasingly insulated from experiences that make people think about inequality in social terms. We put this theory to the test with a series experimental studies in which large, nationally representative samples of Americans are induced to compare themselves with advantaged and disadvantaged others, as well as several observational data sources. We show that when conditions facilitate upward social comparison, Americans do respond with support for redistribution, but today, a series of contextual factors insulate Americans from thinking in this way.

Contact

Michael Siciliano
3129963109
sicilian@uic.edu

Date posted

Jan 7, 2019

Date updated

Jan 23, 2019