Recourse to a purported ideal of societal homogeneity has become common in the context of the refugee reception crisis - not only in Japan, as Leppold et al report, but also throughout Europe. Calls for societal homogeneity in Europe originate from populist movements as well as from some governments. Often, they go along with reduced social support for refugees and asylum seekers, for example i...

This article examines the relationship between trust in government and support for local governmental services. It is hypothesized that trust in government will predict support for local government services, but that trust will differentially predict support across policy areas. The results demonstrate that trust predicts support for human services and infrastructure but is not related to suppo...

4 Countries with greater inequality typically exhibit less support for redistribution and greater 5 acceptance of inequality (e.g., US versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this 6 pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in 7 inequality. Exploring movements around these long-term levels, however, this study finds mixed 8 ev...

We document the inßuence of local unemployment, political orientation and socio-economic background on individual citizen’s government support. From the point of view of the responsibility hypothesis, the inßuence of the local unemployment on the respondent’s government approval likelihood is somewhat confusing. During the right government the high local unemployment does not decrease responden...

A child support guideline is a formula used to calculate support payments based on a few family characteristics. Guidelines began replacing court awarded support payments in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and were later mandated by the federal government in 1988. Two fundamentally different types of guidelines are used: percentage of obligor income, and income shares models. This paper explore...

Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and his colleagues for supplying us with the microdata used in this analysis. Andrew Norton, John Quiggin, Maria Racionero, Chris Ryan, Susanne Schmidt, seminar participants at the ATO, Macquarie University and the University of Queensland, two anonymous referees and editor Paul Miller provided valuable comments and suggestions on earlier drafts. None of the abo...