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Empathy Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T22:45:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 SPEARS-DISSERTATION-2015.pdf: 1125836 bytes, checksum: f3e3bd18c56cdf5a8d3612e86af7f38d (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4211 bytes, checksum: 8635ef2393bd946c8c53287e6f1f265e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-01 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 79961 Lift date: 2017-07-22T22:46:21Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 79961 on 2017-07-23T09:15:17Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78720 en Group identity Leff, Carol S. Leff, Carol S. Wong, Cara J. Kuklinski, James H. Bernhard, William T. Spears, Matthew Allen 2015-07-22T22:45:09Z 2015-07-22T22:45:09Z 2017-07-23T09:15:17Z 2015-05 2015-04-01 Why do some people support redistribution from the rich to the poor while others do not? A very large literature centers on this question, and the list of possible answers researchers have offered is both long and, occasionally, contradictory. For instance, while certain scholars posit that a Hobbesian sense of self-interest motivates individuals to oppose redistribution, other researchers argue that empathy for those in need encourage individuals to support systems of welfare redistribution. Building on the work of social and political psychologists, I argue that perceptions of group identity are central to determining when, or among whom, self-interest is of primary concern and when, or among whom, empathy leads to higher support for welfare redistribution. Using a variety of existing national and cross-national surveys and a set of original, small-n survey experiments, I find that among individuals who perceive that they share no commonality with the poor, support for redistribution largely is a function of self-interest. Yet, when individuals perceive that they share much in common with the poor, feelings of empathy are more likely to form and self-interest matters less. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2017-05-01 The student, Matthew Spears, accepted the attached license on 2015-03-31 at 17:35. The student, Matthew Spears, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-03-31 at 17:44. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-04-01 at 13:43. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #7778 on 2015-07-22 at 14:24:13 Copyright 2015 Matthew Spears Support for redistribution Self-interest For the good of the group: how empathy and self-interest simultaneously condition individual support for economic redistribution text text 2015-5 Political Science Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.