We propose that individual differences in the resistance to social change and the acceptance of inequality can have divergent effects on legitimacy depending on the context. This possibility was tested in a sample of 27 European countries (N = 144 367) and across four experiments (total N = 475). Individual differences in the resistance to social change were related to higher levels of perceive...

Abstract The Global Financial Crisis of 2007–2009 exacerbated two distinct concerns about the independence central banks: a concern legitimacy and economic justice. This paper explores independent banks from perspective these concerns, by presenting models banking their different claims to political distributive I argue primarily that we should avoid construing bank in binary terms, such either...

On the basis of a brief reconstruction of the causes and impacts of the euro crisis, this paper explores, counterfactually and hypothetically, whether the new euro regime, insisting on fiscal austerity and supply-side reforms, could have prevented the rise of the crisis or is able to deal with its disastrous economic and social impact. A comparison with the likely impact of transfer-based Keyne...