The system is broken: Can we have some more? Academic Article

abstract

• AbstractObjectiveIn this article, we explore how populist beliefs and related attitudes (nativism and systemlevel discontent) are associated with support for government spending across a wide range of countries and spending categories.MethodUsing crosssectional survey data spanning 18 democratic countries, we test how each of these constructs affects support for government spending on education, healthcare, social welfare, and job creation, and how that support is affected by explicit tradeoffs between spending increases, taxation, and public debt.ResultsPopulism and systemlevel discontent are associated with support for increased government spending, while nativism is associated with opposition to government spending.ConclusionsThis creates an inherent and perhaps intractable tension within rightwing populist movements. The nativist sentiments that animate rightwing populist movements work to undermine support for redistributive spending.

authors

• Goidel, Robert

published proceedings

• SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY

author list (cited authors)

• Lee, K. S., Goidel, K., & Young, C.

complete list of authors

• Lee, Kyung Suk||Goidel, Kirby||Young, Clifford

publication date

• January 2023

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY  Journal

keywords

• Government Spending
• Nativism
• Populism
• Public Opinion
• Taxation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/ssqu.13208

start page

• 39

end page

• 53

volume

• 104

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13208