Nationally poor, locally rich: Income and local context in the 2016 presidential election

The paradox of local inequality: Meritocratic beliefs in unequal localities

“…Third, we specify an alternative model in which we explicitly recognise that identical household income does not necessarily mean identical relative status or affluence (Ogorzalek et al, 2020) We address this in two ways. In a first step, we use coding developed by Lee et al (2018) to construct an alternative binary measure of lifetime geographical immobility, where 1 denotes that UKHLS respondents lives in the same place in which they were born at the time of the survey and 0 denotes that they have moved elsewhere at some point during the life course.…”

Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio‐functional model of conspiracy beliefs

“…In turn, this distrust would increase prejudicial intergroup attitudes based on class distinctions in the form of conspiracy beliefs. Research does show that conspiracy beliefs can be considered as a form of intergroup prejudice (Chayinska & Minescu, 2018 ; Jolley et al, 2020 ; Sapountzis & Condor, 2013 ; Sternisko et al, 2020 ), and several studies have demonstrated that perceptions of relative deprivation, rather than actual socio‐economic status (see Ogorzalek et al, 2020 ) can be a potent driver of intergroup prejudice (e.g. Guimond & Dambrun, 2002 ).…”

Inequality Federalism and Economic Self-Interest in Subnational Progressive Tax Politics

“…While these results are intriguing, we leave a fuller investigation of them to future research. In addition, future research could explore whether the effect of income on support for subnational redistributive policies is shaped by local costs of living (see Ogorzalek, Piston, and Puig 2019), as economic self-interest effects may be more pronounced when accounting for respondent income relative to median income levels in one’s city of residence. Finally, one limitation of our analysis and findings is that we only analyze tax policies in left-leaning states.…”