Education systems and the formation of societal consensus on justice

Koçer, Rüya Gökhan; Werfhorst, Herman G. van de

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“…There is, however, little research on how education and its institutional structure affect the mean and dispersion of individuals' opinions on economic inequality (see Koçer and Van de Werfhorst, 2012). This lack of attention is unfortunate.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Education and Opinions On Economic Inmentioning

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“…The main focus of studies on public opinion has been the impact of welfare regimes (see, e.g., Alves and Rossi, 1978; Bean and Papadakis, 1998; Bonoli, 2000; Bowles and Gintis, 2000; Fong, 2001; Funk, 2000; Hassenfeld and Rafferty, 1989; Hermkens and Boerman, 1989; Linos and West, 2003; Svallfors, 1997). There is, however, little research on how education and its institutional structure affect the mean and dispersion of individuals’ opinions on economic inequality (see Koçer and Van de Werfhorst, 2012). This lack of attention is unfortunate.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Education and Opinions On Economic Inmentioning

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Does education affect opinions on economic inequality? A joint mean and dispersion analysis

Koçer

Werfhorst

2012

Acta Sociologica

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Research on public opinion on economic inequality mainly focuses on the legitimation of inequalities and possible discrepancies between public opinion on fair economic inequality and factual income distributions. However, what has been neglected is the extent to which individual or country characteristics affect deviations from average public opinion. To account for these deviations, we establish a joint multi-level mean-dispersion model and scrutinize the impact of educational systems as a hitherto neglected factor that may affect dispersion in opinion distributions. Besides an individual's level of education and welfare state characteristics, we show that vocational orientation of educational systems, too, has a substantial impact. This institutional feature appears to reduce the extent to which individual opinions deviate from average public opinion on the fairness of economic inequalities.

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Education and Opinions On Economic Inmentioning

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Does education affect opinions on economic inequality? A joint mean and dispersion analysis

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Werfhorst

2012

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Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality

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In most contemporary societies, people underestimate the extent of economic inequality, resulting in lower support for taxation and redistribution than might be expressed by better informed citizens. We still know little, however, about how understandings of inequality arise, and therefore about where perceptions and misperceptions of it might come from. This methodological article takes one step toward filling this gap by developing a research design—a blueprint—to study how people’s understandings of wealth and income inequality develop through social interaction. Our approach combines insights from recent scholarship highlighting the socially situated character of inequality beliefs with those of survey experimental work testing how information about inequality changes people’s understandings of it. Specifically, we propose to use deliberative focus groups to approximate the interactional contexts in which individuals process information and form beliefs in social life. Leveraging an experimental methodology, our design then varies the social makeup of deliberative groups, as well as the information about inequality we share with participants, to explore how different types of social environments and information shape people’s understandings of economic inequality. This should let us test, in particular, whether the low socioeconomic diversity of people’s discussion and interaction networks relates to their tendency to underestimate inequality, and whether beliefs about opportunity explain people’s lack of appetite for redistributive policies. In this exploratory article we motivate our methodological apparatus and describe its key features, before reflecting on the findings from a proof-of-concept study conducted in London in the fall of 2019.

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Reward allocation decision making in Arab-Islamic business organizations

Bachkirov

Shamsudin

2017

IMEFM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate monetary reward allocation decision-making in an Arab-Islamic business environment. Design/methodology/approach In this mixed-method (quantitative/qualitative) study, data were obtained from a sample of 342 practicing managers of different genders and educational levels working in different industries at different organizational levels in Oman. Findings The more individualistic personal orientation, the more likely the decision makers are to allocate the biggest reward to the best performer and to believe that the equity principle is best for distributing rewards. In the context of a society transitioning from collectivistic to individualistic cultural values, the level of education is associated with preference for the equity principle in reward allocations. Research limitations/implications The reported findings advance the theoretical understanding of how an emic perspective can explain reward allocation decision-making in Arab-Islamic environment. Practical implications Practical implications of this study lie in the guidance that global managers can draw regarding which allocation principle to use in which cultural context: the principle of equity – not equality, need or seniority – is embraced by organizations in the Arabian Gulf. Originality/value The study examines reward allocation decision-making behavior in the under-researched context of the Arabian Gulf and adds to the body of knowledge based on data obtained from practicing managers rather than college students.

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Education systems and the formation of societal consensus on justice

Cited by 3 publications

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Does education affect opinions on economic inequality? A joint mean and dispersion analysis

Does education affect opinions on economic inequality? A joint mean and dispersion analysis

Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality

Reward allocation decision making in Arab-Islamic business organizations

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