2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2011.00605.x
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Is Inequality Becoming Just? Changes in Public Opinion about Economic Distribution in Chile

Abstract: Chile is one of the few Latin American countries that has participated in the inequality module of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) in 1999 and in 2009, allowing time comparisons in attitudes towards inequality in one of the countries with the highest income inequality throughout the world. This paper focuses on the cross‐sectional comparison of the just earning gap, a proportional term based on salaries considered just for high and low status occupations. Even though descriptive analysis shows t… Show more

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“…noTe 1. Juan Carlos Castillo (2012) points out that, contrary to a normative perspective that would presuppose that higher degrees of inequality would generate a stronger social demand for equality, the data from public opinion surveys indicate that in Chile they have produced more legitimation of inequality. Chilean society as a whole now accepts and justifies greater inequality than it did in the past.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…noTe 1. Juan Carlos Castillo (2012) points out that, contrary to a normative perspective that would presuppose that higher degrees of inequality would generate a stronger social demand for equality, the data from public opinion surveys indicate that in Chile they have produced more legitimation of inequality. Chilean society as a whole now accepts and justifies greater inequality than it did in the past.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Pero se trata de unas expectativas que terminan de hacer crisis en el quinquenio que corre entre 2006 y 2011, en el que irrumpe, en forma creciente, un malestar largamente incubado y socialmente muy extendido, de dimensiones que exceden con creces la mera cuestión educacional. (2014, p. 135) Este paulatino malestar no se incorpora de igual forma en la población, pues en Chile no se constata una relación directa entre la desigualdad económica, su percepción y su justificación (J. C. Castillo, 2009Castillo, , 2012aJ. C. Castillo, Miranda, & Carrasco, 2012).…”
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“…Un discurso que demanda una sociedad más justa convive con niveles altos de tolerancia hacia las desigualdades (Castillo, 2009(Castillo, , 2012a(Castillo, , 2012bGarretón y Cumsille, 2000;Puga, 2011).…”
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