Extreme inequality erodes citizens’ willingness to abide by shared rules.
Evidence
It is due to the need to instill such civic minded dispositions that Lovett endorses redistributive measures: in a society marked by extreme inequalities, citizens will not believe that they live in a fair system and won’t be willing to “play by the rules and respect political and social outcomes” (209). — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 18
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels the fairness-and-compliance findings familiar from behavioral economics and tax-compliance research. — connects to: Majority rule depends on citizens committing to the common good over self-interest — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 24; People accept large inequalities they judge as earned or deserved. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 712
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 18
Broader Connections
- Majority rule depends on citizens committing to the common good over self-interest
#expands(0.82) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 24 - People accept large inequalities they judge as earned or deserved.
#qualifies(0.75) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 712