Paying for positive group esteem: how inequity frames affect whites' responses to redistributive policies.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Paying for Positive Group Esteem: How Inequity Frames Affect Whites' Responses to Redistributive Policies

Framing inequity safely: Whites' motivated perceptions of racial privilege.

Racial inequity was theorized to threaten Whites' self-image when inequity is framed as White privilege but not when framed as anti-Black discrimination. Manipulations of Whites' need for self-regard were hypothesized to affect their perceptions of White privilege but not of anti-Black discrimination. In Experiment 1, White participants reported less privilege when given threatening (vs. affirm...

The hard-knock life? Whites claim hardships in response to racial inequity

• We explore why and how Whites deny the existence of racial privilege • We introduce belief in personal privilege as important to psychology of privilege • When given privilege evidence, Whites claim more life hardships • Whites use hardship claims to deny personally benefitting from privilege • Self-affirmed Whites acknowledge personal privilege and support equality policies a b s t r a c t a...

Taking from those that have more and giving to those that have less: How inequity frames affect corrections for inequity

0022-1031/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2008.09.010 * Corresponding author. Fax: +1 650 723 9932. E-mail address: [email protected] (B.S. Lower Most theories of inequity focus on relative inequity. In contrast, this paper provides evidence that individuals infer what people should have (i.e. an absolute standard) from the way inequity is described. In the reporte...

کیفیت نهادها و ترکیب مخارج دولت: یک الگوی نظری

This paper investigates the effect of redistributive politics on the composition of government expenditure. By applying a dynamic and complete information game, it is shown that‌ the quality of institutions is a key determinant of how much the government revenue is spent on public goods. The main finding of this paper is that in democracies with high quality of institution, less transfer is dem...