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Speaker:
David Rueda (Oxford University)

This event is part of an event series „In_equality Colloquium“.

Why do some people support redistributive policies? And why, depending on the level of redistribution provided, do some engage in crime while others choose to invest in policing as a response to inequality? Using a novel survey and lab experiment, this project aims to make three main contributions. First, while existing research in political science and economics on fairness considerations is based on studying symmetric situations (when income is the result of the same procedure for all), this project will focus on “procedural fairness” (when income is the result of effort for some and luck for others). Second, it will explore whether the influence of fairness considerations is income dependent (stronger for the rich, weaker for the poor). And third, it will analyse how deservingness and redistributive choices affect the willingness to engage in crime or invest in policing.

David Rueda is Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, as well as a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. His current research and teaching interests include comparative political economy, the politics of industrialized democracies and comparative methods. His work can be divided into three main areas of interest: insider-outsider politics, the determinants and consequences of inequality, and the politics of the welfare state and of labor market institutions.

Tobias Tober will chair this colloquium session. He joined the project “Digitalization, Automation and the Future of Work in Post-Industrial Welfare States” at the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” as postdoctoral researcher in October 2020. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Geneva in February 2020. Until September 2020, he was a senior researcher at the LMU Munich.