Solidarity and Self-Interest: Using Mixture Modeling to Learn about Social Policy Preferences

Abstract: This article addresses the problem of measuring social policy preferences in a valid and reliable way. Scholars have faced a number of challenges in measuring these preferences. First, it is not clear how exactly we should conceive of this domain. Second, the literature presents contradictory findings regarding the effect of contextual factors on policy preferences. Third, abstract preferences regarding the welfare state and information about its performance can affect each other, complicating the attempt to distinguish between the two. Finally, latent manifestations of these preferences might not be equivalent across countries. We develop an approach that validly and reliably measures attitudes about the role of government in addressing inequalities in the market distribution of resources. Mixture modeling and in particular latent class analysis enables us to take advantage of information for multiple countries and survey questions while doing justice to the characteristics of the

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Solidarity and Self-Interest: Using Mixture Modeling to Learn about Social Policy Preferences ; volume:14 ; number:1 ; year:2020 ; pages:61-90 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Methods, data, analyses ; 14, Heft 1 (2020), 61-90

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Alemán, José ; Woods, Dwayne

Further information

• DOI: 10.12758/mda.2019.06
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021020515420844264731
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.