Homer Gets a Tax Cut: Inequality and Public Policy in the American Mind

By Larry M. Bartels. Perspectives on Politics, 2005

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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In Gender Studies

1. Martín Tetaz
2. Stefanie Stantcheva
3. Kenneth F. Scheve
4. Ricardo Perez-Truglia
5. John F. Dovidio
6. Guillermo Cruces
7. Suzanne R Horwitz
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1. Martín Tetaz
2. Stefanie Stantcheva
3. Kenneth F. Scheve
4. Ricardo Perez-Truglia
5. Cameron Ballard-Rosa
6. John F. Dovidio
7. Guillermo Cruces
8. Suzanne R Horwitz

Citations in the corpus

• The Structure of American Income Tax Policy Preferences (2017, background): “For example, Bartels (2005) documents a puzzling disconnect: while many Americans dislike growing economic inequality and believe that the rich should pay more in taxes, support for the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003—which benefited the rich significantly more than other income groups—outweighed opp”
• The rich—love them or hate them? Divergent implicit and explicit attitudes toward the wealthy (2017, background): “Because conservatives tend to support legislature that reduces wealth distribution and as such can be characterized as benefitting upper class people (Bartels, 2005), we expect that people who are more politically conservative will have more positive explicit attitudes toward the rich, and, as an ex”
• Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment (2012, background): “It can also provide explanations for other puzzles in the literature, such as Bartels’ (2005) findings on the support of low income voters for tax cuts to the rich and the dissonance between their views on inequality and public policy, or Bartels’ (2008) results on the reduced responsiveness of…”
• Inequality and Media Capture (2008, unknown): “16Graetz and Shapiro (2005), Bartels (2005), Hacker and Pierson (2005).”
• Understanding Tax Policy: How Do People Reason? (2020, background): “Misperceptions about the incidence of taxes is also prevalent in Bartels (2005) who finds that support for the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, which primarily benefited very wealthy taxpayers, was mainly driven by considerations about a person’s own taxes despite widespread opposition to increasing wealth i”