caa a22 4500 606237410 CHVBK 20210128101253.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10272-015-0542-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10272-015-0542-2 Income Inequality, Credit and Public Support for Redistribution [Elektronische Daten] [Basak Kus, Wen Fan] Credit affects individuals' perceptions and experiences of inequality. Having access to credit enables those in lower- and middle-income groups to consume an array of products and services that they otherwise would not be able to afford, thereby taking the edge off discontent. Citizens with higher incomes who tend to be less supportive of redistribution in the first place may be further convinced that inequality is not a major issue and redistribution need not be a policy goal. All in all, credit may help smooth out class and status differences. This article looks at the impact of credit on citizens' support for redistributive policies. Controlling for a set of national and individual level variables, the findings show a negative association between credit use and public support for redistribution. ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Kus Basak Department of Sociology, Wesleyan University, 238 Church Street, 06459-0012, Middletown, CT, USA aut Fan Wen Xianlin College Town, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, 3 Wenyuan Road, Xianlin College Town, 210033, Nanjing, China aut Intereconomics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 50/4(2015-07-01), 198-205 0020-5346 50:4<198 2015 50 10272 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-015-0542-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-015-0542-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kus Basak Department of Sociology, Wesleyan University, 238 Church Street, 06459-0012, Middletown, CT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fan Wen Xianlin College Town, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, 3 Wenyuan Road, Xianlin College Town, 210033, Nanjing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Intereconomics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 50/4(2015-07-01), 198-205 0020-5346 50:4<198 2015 50 10272