@article{Rosset:15445,
      recid = {15445},
      author = {Rosset, Jan and Poltier, Jérémie and Pontusson, Jonas},
      title = {Unevenly unequal responsiveness : public opinion and  redistributive policy shifts in Western Europe since 2008},
      publisher = {SAGE Publication},
      journal = {Politics & society},
      address = {Thousand Oaks, CA. 2024-11},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      pages = {31 p.},
      abstract = {Recent studies puzzle over why it is that democratically  elected governments have not responded to rising inequality  by engaging in more redistribution. While some scholars  argue that low- and middle-income citizens have not  responded to rising inequality in the way we would expect,  others argue that policymakers are not responsive to the  demands of these citizens. We argue that both solutions to  the “lack-of-redistribution puzzle” leave something to be  desired and that variation across policy domains sheds new  light on the issues at stake in this debate. Based on an  original 2019 survey replicating questions asked by the  European Social Survey in 2008, we show that support for  progressive income taxation and more egalitarian  unemployment insurance has increased in most West European  countries since 2008. Tax policy has moved in the same  direction as public opinion, but unemployment policy has  not. We conclude that public opinion should be conceived as  a constraint on policymakers motivated by political-economy  considerations rather than a driver of policy  developments.},
      url = {http://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/15445},
}