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Values and Beliefs, Welfare Evaluations, and Attitudes Towards a Universal Basic Income in Europe
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http://doi.org/10.3886/E111201V2
Gwangeun Choi
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Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
Choi, Gwangeun. Values and Beliefs, Welfare Evaluations, and Attitudes Towards a Universal Basic Income in Europe. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-03-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E111201V2
Basic Income
Welfare Attitudes
Welfare States
Human Values
Welfare Evaluations
Egalitarianism
This
study investigates the determinants of public support for a universal basic
income (UBI), using the European Social Survey Round 8 (2016), which is a
cross-national survey that asked respondents for the first time whether or not
they support a UBI scheme. Among the determinants, this article focuses on the three
sets of factors: basic human values (universalism, benevolence, power, and
achievement), beliefs about economic differences (economic individualism and
economic fairness), and evaluations of current social benefits and services.
The findings show that young, leftist, and economically vulnerable people who
are unemployed or low-income earners are more supportive of UBI, as expected.
Regarding the predictors of the values and beliefs, those who are in favor of
enhancing equality in a broad sense are more likely to support UBI; those who
support economic individualism and worry about a lack of work ethic and
economic burden imposed by welfare policies are less likely to support UBI, as
hypothesized. However, the results are unexpected that those who are more
inclined to self-enhancement values (power and achievement) and targeted
welfare policies are more supportive of UBI, which reveals that UBI is not just
an egalitarian policy.
23 European countries
including Israel and Russia
survey data
European Social Survey Round 8 (2016)