What explains the public's muted response to rising inequality? To answer this question, this book carefully unpacks the interaction between fairness concerns and material self-interest. The proposed framework helps explain puzzling trends in support for redistribution in Great Britain, the United States, France and beyond.

Charlotte Cavaillé is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

1. Demand for redistribution in the age of inequality; I. Demand for redistribution: A conceptual framework: 2. What is fair; 3. Unpacking demand for redistribution; 4. As if self-interested? The correlates of fairness beliefs; 5. When material self-interest trumps fairness reasoning; II. Changes in demand for redistribution: 6. Explaining stability and change; 7. Fiscal stress and the erosion of social solidarity; 8. Partisan dynamics and mass attitudinal change; 9. How proportionality beliefs form; 10. The nature and origins of reciprocity beliefs; Conclusion; Index.