UT professor finds economic inequality is self-reinforcing
When the gap between the haves and have-nots gets larger, one would think the have-nots would want more help, most likely in the form of government programs, to fight rising inequities.
Not so, says Nate Kelly, assistant professor of political science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Kelly, along with Peter Enns of Cornell University, conducted a study analyzing economic inequality and public opinion toward government intervention.
The study has been published in the October edition of the American Journal of Political Science and can be viewed by visiting this link, http://web.utk.edu/~nkelly/papers/inequality/KellyEnns_preprint.pdf.
What he found defies expectations.