Scarcely Sufficient: The Political Impact of Adaptations to Sociotropic Scarcity and Sufficiency

• In Event: What Affects Policy Attitudes?

Brief Overview

A survey experiment finds that manipulations of conditions of sociotropic resource sufficiency and scarcity significantly align empathy, economic, and social policy preferences in more liberal and conservative directions, respectively.

Authors

• Amanda Austin, University of Houston

• Ling Zhu, University of Houston