H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

PERCINEQ · An inquiry into the foundations of PERCeived INEQuality

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-10-14 → 2022-10-13
Финансиране от ЕС: 160 932 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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An inquiry into the foundations of PERCeived INEQuality

PERCINEQ analyses Perceived Inequality (PI), its causes and consequences from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The literature has often documented a substantial rise of income inequality with no increased public demand for redistributive measures. Trying to solve the puzzle of redistribution, many scholars have focused on PI and on misperceptions, namely the bias between objective and subjective inequality, stressing how the latter rather than the former shapes people's behaviors. PI is a very timely topic since it casts into the discussion of a “post-factual era”, it influences the desired size of government and political behaviours. Indeed, the topic is relevant given the increased threat that populisms pose to the Union cohesion. Many social scientists have tried to understand if misperceptions can be partly corrected through the provision of accurate information. Nevertheless, it seems that provision of information cannot fully eliminate misperceptions. The evidence shows that people tend to be wrong about facts that scare or worry them. Misperceptions and emotions are thus strictly linked in the way they affect redistribution preferences and political behavior, in particular populist voting behaviors. Considering the growing interest, PERCINEQ tries to address several questions hrough the creation of survey experiments, which aim at collecting new and original data to disentangle the main causal mechanisms underlying misperceptions and how the latter affect certain economic and political behaviors.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Rising levels of inequality has become a key political, economic and social issue in recent years. Nevertheless, many studies show that individuals are much more likely to be influenced by subjective rather than objective inequality. For such reason, perceived inequality is becoming an increasingly popular topic among scholars and non-academic experts. Despite the growing number of studies, little is still known about what perceived inequality is exactly and how it can properly measured given that it is a contested, multidimensional and unobservable concept (1 research objective). Moreover, it is still not clear why people wrongly assess it and which are the consequences of such misperception (2 research objective). The first research objective aims at contributing to a general theory of perceived inequality defining perceptions within models of human behaviors through an interdisciplinary review of the literature. Moreover, improved measures of perceived inequality will be elaborated applying cluster analysis to multiple indicators. The second objective of the research focuses on the identification of the main causal mechanisms driving inequality misperceptions (limited rationality or emotional innumeracy) and its consequences in our society. Such objective is pursed through the creation of an original questionnaire and the implementation of a survey experiment for the collection of new data. Doing so, the simultaneous test of the two causal mechanisms can be implemented for the first time in the literature of perceptions of inequality. The survey will also allow to explore the political and economic consequences of misperceiving inequality. When considering political consequences, the research focuses on political unrest and populist voting (e.g., Brexit, Trump, Lega Nord in Italy); while for economic consequences, it focuses on preferences for redistribution. Important policy implications for our knowledge-based society are expected from PERCINEQ.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA · Cerdanyola Del VallesКоординаторИспания