🔓 Read the full paper in Socio-Economic Review (@sasemeeting.bsky.social), available open access: doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016
How has the public belief in meritocracy changed over time? We address this question in our new Data Viz (@sociusjournal.bsky.social) by examining trends in popular beliefs across cohorts and periods in 35 countries, based on two datasets.
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231261425841
Out now at American Sociological Review: "Countervailing Powers: Labor Unions Against the Buyer Power of Walmart Supercenters" with @joshuachoper.bsky.social & @zparolin.bsky.social
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Sven Ehmes
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📚 We revisit a prominent claim that economic inequality legitimizes itself by paradoxically strengthening meritocratic beliefs.
📉 Challenging the "paradox of inequality," our evidence shows that rising inequality within countries over time erodes citizens’ belief in meritocracy.
This is the *fifth* study to undermine the idea that the muted political response to inequality is due to growing meritocracy beliefs, esp. among the poor.
- Inequality erodes meritocracy beliefs
- Poor meritocrats still want redistribution
- What matters is the politicization of inequality
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🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?
Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016
Timo Wiesner
📊 We further uncover that inequality does not merely induce a mean shift, but also alters the shape of the distribution of meritocracy beliefs, increasing the proportion of citizens deeply skeptical of meritocratic realities.
Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters?
Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations.
Out now in Social Forces.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat
Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat
Citizens tend to lose faith in meritocracy as inequality rises within their country over time.
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Linus Westheuser
Maik Hamjediers
Mark Rubin
🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?
Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016
Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat
🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy?
Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016
Sven Ehmes
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Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat
