000015445 001__ 15445 000015445 005__ 20250129134317.0 000015445 022__ $$a10.1177/00323292241283293 000015445 037__ $$aARTICLE 000015445 039_9 $$a2025-01-29 13:43:17$$b0$$c2025-01-29 11:43:25$$d1000061$$c2025-01-29 11:42:30$$d0$$y2025-01-29 11:42:22$$z1000061 000015445 041__ $$aeng 000015445 245__ $$aUnevenly unequal responsiveness :$$bpublic opinion and redistributive policy shifts in Western Europe since 2008 000015445 260__ $$aThousand Oaks, CA$$bSAGE Publication 000015445 269__ $$a2024-11 000015445 300__ $$a31 p. 000015445 506__ $$avisible 000015445 520__ $$9eng$$aRecent 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. 000015445 540__ $$acorrect 000015445 592__ $$aHETS-VS 000015445 592__ $$bInstitut Travail Social 000015445 592__ $$cTravail social 000015445 592__ $$dTravail social 000015445 65017 $$aTravail social 000015445 6531_ $$9eng$$aincome inequality 000015445 6531_ $$9eng$$aunequal representation 000015445 6531_ $$9eng$$apublic opinion 000015445 6531_ $$9eng$$aprogressive taxation 000015445 6531_ $$9eng$$aunemployment compensation 000015445 655__ $$ascientifique 000015445 700__ $$aRosset, Jan$$uHaute Ecole et Ecole Supérieure de Travail Social–HES-SO 000015445 700__ $$aPoltier, Jérémie$$uUniversity of Geneva 000015445 700__ $$aPontusson, Jonas$$uUniversity of Geneva 000015445 773__ $$tPolitics & society$$j2024$$kPublished online 3 november 2024 000015445 8564_ $$uhttps://arodes.hes-so.ch/record/15445/files/Rosset_2024_Unevenly%20unequal%20responsiveness.pdf$$yPublished version$$9ca747421-9f24-4a18-b04b-2b8760bba165$$s710540 000015445 906__ $$aGOLD 000015445 909CO $$ooai:hesso.tind.io:15445$$pGLOBAL_SET 000015445 950__ $$anon attribué 000015445 980__ $$ascientifique 000015445 981__ $$ascientifique