“Us vs Them”: How people make sense of economic inequality in the UK, by Daniel Walsh & Sonja Zmerli, published on the LSE blog page
New research in political psychology suggests that people interpret economic inequality through an “us” versus “them” lens. Beyond the usual suspects – “the 1%”, “the poor” – these categories include figures such as politicians, footballers, bankers and NHS workers, argue Daniel Walsh and Sonja Zmerli. With this relational orientation, researchers might ask: who does the […]
How do French people form their perceptions about economic inequality in France? by Charlotte Beaudoin
POLINEQUAL is a comparative research project that aims to understand, first, the factors at different levels (institutions, media, political elites, individuals) that shape people’s perceptions of economic inequality and, second, the political consequences of those individual perceptions, that is to say how perceptions influence political behaviors which affect political output. POLINEQUAL investigates these questions/subjects in […]