{"id":49418,"date":"2015-04-17T21:04:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T21:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_op-ed_does_emphasizing_inequality_cause_voters_to_trust_the_government_\/"},"modified":"2015-04-17T21:04:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T21:04:42","slug":"nyt_op-ed_does_emphasizing_inequality_cause_voters_to_trust_the_government_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49418","title":{"rendered":"(NYT Op-Ed) Thomas Edsall&#8211;Does Emphasizing Inequality cause voters to Trust the Government Less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even worse for Democrats, the Saez paper found that \u201cinformation about inequality also makes respondents trust government less,\u201d\u009d decreasing \u201cby nearly twenty percent the share of respondents who \u201d\u02dctrust government\u2019 most of the time:\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Hence, emphasizing the severity of a social or economic problem appears to undercut respondents\u2019 willingness to trust the government to fix it \u201d\u201d the existence of the problem could act as evidence of the government\u2019s limited capacity to improve outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>The findings of the Saez group are consistent with Luttig\u2019s. Taken together, they suggest that even if Democrats win the presidency and the Senate in 2016, largely on the basis of favorable demographic trends, the party will confront serious hurdles if it attempts to deliver material support to working men and women and the very poor. Redistribution is in trouble, and that is likely to tie American politics in knots for many years to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/15\/opinion\/has-obamacare-turned-voters-against-sharing-the-wealth.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even worse for Democrats, the Saez paper found that \u201cinformation about inequality also makes respondents trust government less,\u201d\u009d decreasing \u201cby nearly twenty percent the share of respondents who \u201d\u02dctrust government\u2019 most of the time:\u201d\u009d Hence, emphasizing the severity of a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49418\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,175,582,589,149,168,104,133,617,597,616,593,151,618,587,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-house-of-representatives","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-senate","category-taxes","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}