经济不平等减少了对有能力的领导人的偏好
Feiteng Long1, Zi Ye1, Guohua Liu2
1Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Personality & social psychology bulletin
|March 23, 2024
概括
高水平的经济不平等减少了选民对有能力领导人的偏好. 这是因为不平等增加了人们对政客对公众漠不关心的看法,影响了政治稳定.
科学领域:
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 政治科学 政治科学是指政治学.
- 行为经济学是一种行为经济学.
背景情况:
- 经济不平等与政治不稳定和社会凝聚力的减少有关.
- 了解经济不平等对政治态度的心理影响对于民主健康至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查经济不平等与选民对有能力的政治领导人的偏好之间的因果关系.
- 探索这种关系中被认为是政治家冷漠的调解作用.
主要方法:
- 在中国和英国,共进行了6项实验,共有1907名参与者.
- 参与者暴露在高低经济不平等的条件下.
- 测量了选民对政治领导人的偏好和对政治家冷漠的看法.
主要成果:
- 在实验条件下,更高的经济不平等总是导致选民对有能力的政治领导人的偏好减少.
- 这种效应是由人们对政客在高度不平等的社会中不那么关心人的看法增加的.
- 无论参与者的社会地位如何,这些发现都是正确的.
结论:
- 经济不平等减少了选民对有能力的政治领导的需求.
- 由于不平等造成的政治人物冷漠的担忧加剧了这种效应的基础.
- 解决经济不平等问题对于维持民主活力和政治参与至关重要.
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