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Why Do People Care About Economic Inequality?
Research from Postdoc Efraín García-Sánchez and colleagues explores how different concerns about economic inequality predict support to fix it.
While people care about economic inequality for different reasons (it’s unjust vs. it causes conflict), new work by Postdoc Efraín García-Sánchez and colleagues finds that justice concerns are more likely than social harmony concerns to motivate policy support and collective action. Simply highlighting the harmful consequences of inequality is often less effective for mobilization. While there are many ways to promote social change, this research underscores that how economic inequality is framed has different motivational outcomes.
