Resource-advantaged groups coordinate to create institutions expropriating from the disadvantaged

Evidence

Those who are resource-advantaged (e.g., with more material resources, superior technology, or greater physical strength) cooperate with those who are similarly endowed to establish and maintain stable institutions that expropriate social, material, and political resources from the vulnerable resource-disadvantaged who fall within their grasp. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 667

Categorization

  • DEFINE: States the core premise of Jackman’s structural-institutional alternative to Allport’s prejudice model.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 667
  • XREF: connects to: Entrenchment mechanisms work through groups with aligned preservation interests — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 471; Procedural requirements ration services by exploiting the poor’s lower opportunity costs — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 663; Institutions arise from vertical power asymmetries, not only horizontal coordination dilemmas — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface:…, 10