Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans

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Unpacking the inequality paradox: The psychological roots of inequality and social class. (2018, background): “higher minimum wage; less willing to fund minority serving or public schools; less supportive of universal health coverage; and, by a factor of close to four, more likely to oppose heavy taxes on the rich to distribute wealth (Page et al., 2013; see also Hayes, 2013).”
The One Percent (2014, background): “Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and related protest movements that started in September 2011 generated popular interest in income and wealth concentration by drawing attention to the gap between the financial status of the top one percent and that of other Americans (the other 99%).”
Millionaire Migration and Taxation of the Elite (2016, background): “public generally supports the principle of reducing inequality but remains ambivalent over how to do it (Page et al. 2013; McCall 2012).”