BASIC HUMAN VALUES AS DETERMINANTS OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS INEQUALITY IN LATVIA: EVIDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY
BASIC HUMAN VALUES AS DETERMINANTS OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS INEQUALITY IN LATVIA: EVIDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY

Summary/Abstract: Various scholars have addressed the issue of so-called conditional justice, referring to the differing impacts of one’s income and socioeconomic status on the belief regarding what should be the ‘just and fair’ distribution of income and welfare in a society. Up to now, research has focused mostly on individual-level factors like income and personal affluence, education, and gender, as well as country-level determinants like income inequality, welfare regime, GDP, and unemployment rate, but relatively seldom taking into account attitudinal factors like human basic values, extensively elaborated by Shalom Schwartz and his collaborators. The authors hypothesize that basic human values may have some explanatory potential. The goal of the current paper is, therefore, to explore the impact of values on the belief that Latvians have on what constitutes a fair society from Round 9 of the ESS Justice and Fairness module and also to reconsider the influence of other factors addressed in previous studies.

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