Societal Attitudes about Poverty and Spending on Social Welfare

FIGURE 3.1 Societal Attitudes about Poverty and Spending on Social Welfare 

FOR PROTECnON AND PROM OWN THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTAWN OF EFFECTIVE SAFETY NETS 

Other political factors are important as well. Substantial work has been devoted to the role of ethnic homogeneity and its effects on support for safety nets. Most analysts agree that homogeneity is supportive of safety nets and heterogeneity is harmful (Alesina and Glaeser 2004 Lee and Roemer 2004 Lindert 2004). The extent of democracy (Lindert 2004) and the form of its institutions—for instance, proportional versus majori-tarian representation—seem to matter as well (Alesina and Glaeser 2004). 

TABLE 3.3 Perceptions of Poverty in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, 1995-7 

Raglon and country Society is unjust They are lazy The peer have little chance of oscaping from povorty The gevemment s respense te poverty is inadequate 

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