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SUMMARY:Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
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DESCRIPTION:Milena Tsvetkova London School of Economics.\n\n\nSocial netw
 orks affect redistribution decisions and polarization.\n\nMost people di
 slike inequality\, yet large disparities in income and wealth remain rem
 arkably high in many democratic countries. One possible explanation is t
 hat people’s social networks affect their perception of inequality and c
 onsequently\, their demands for redistribution. In this study\, we inves
 tigate the effects of assortativity by wealth (observing others with sim
 ilar or different wealth) and visibility by wealth (observing rich or po
 or others) on voting for redistribution and the polarization of votes\, 
 as well as satisfaction and perceptions of fairness. We develop a comput
 ational model and test the predictions of the model in an online network
  experiment. The results reveal that although most social networks lead 
 people to under-observe inequality\, different structural properties pro
 duce different collective outcomes: redistribution and polarization are 
 the lowest in networks with maximum assortativity\, where participants a
 re segregated by wealth\, and the highest in networks where the rich are
  most visible. Furthermore\, segregation keeps the poor poorest but sati
 sfied\, while observing the rich makes them dissatisfied despite becomin
 g better off. These findings suggest that political communication and po
 licy strategies aiming to increase support for redistribution should enh
 ance the visibility of excessive wealth. At the same time\, it is crucia
 l to ensure that this does not exacerbate polarization and conflict.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G6\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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