Religion as an Opiate or Secondary Source of Utility? Redistributive Preferences of the Religious Poor Under Varying Institutional Constraints

• In Event: Policy Preferences and Trust in Government Under Authoritarianism

Brief Overview

Why do many religious poor vote against redistribution? I argue that vote choice is not merely a result of economic and moral/religious dimensional salience but of the prospect of redistributive policy, proxied by levels of institutional constraint.

Author

• Yaakov Huba, Georgetown University