Political Trust and Preferences for Redistribution: Wasteful Spending and Plutocratic Influence

• In Event: Redistribution Preferences and Economic Inequality

Brief Overview

Higher political trust has been argued to stimulate support for redistribution. However, we found that increasing trust in limited plutocratic influence reduced support for progressive income taxation among supporters of governing parties

Authors

• Daiki Kishishita, Tokyo University of Science

• Tomoko Matsumoto, Tokyo University of Science