Literature Sources

For Chapter 2: Literature review prep, one study for each topic presented in Chapter 1

Below is a table with the 14 topics list at the end of Chapter 1 and a single article that could potentially be used as you prepare your literature review. You should be able to find these studies through your institution’s library.

You can use these articles to find other studies: you can comb through the literature reviews of these studies to identify other relevant literature or you can use the social science citation index to see what other studies reference these particular articles.

1	Views on income inequality	Trump, Kris-Stella. 2018. “Income Inequality Influences Perceptions of Legitimate Income Differences.” British Journal of Political Science. 48 (4): 929-952.
2	Views on responsibility	Breznau, Nate. 2019. “The underlying Public Attitude Toward Government Responsibility to Intervene in Socioeconomic, 30 Years of Evidence from the ISSP.” International Journal of Sociology.” 49: 182-203.
3	Views on corruption	Li, Hui, Min Tang, and Narisong Huhe. “How does democracy influence citizens’ perceptions of government corruption? A cross-national study.” Democratization. 23 (5): 892-918.
4	Views on abortion	Prusaczyk, Elvira and Gordon Hodson. 2019. “Re-Examining Left-Right Differences in Abortion Opposition: The Roles of Sexism and Shared Reality.” TPM: Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology. 26(3): 431-445.
5	Views on political violence	Lusthaus, Jonathan. 2011. “Religion and state violence: legitimation in Israel, the USA and Iran.” Contemporary Politics. 17(1): 1–17.
6	Views on the death penalty	Bones, Paul D. and Soheil Sabriseilabi. 2018. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: An Exploration of Religious Forces on Support for the Death Penalty.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 57(4): 707–722.
7	Views on whether taxation of rich is an essential characteristic of democracy	Boudreau, Cheryl and Scott A. MacKenzie. 2018. “Wanting What Is Fair: How Party Cues and Information about Income Inequality Affect Public Support for Taxes.” Journal of Politics. 80(2): 367–381.
8	Views on whether unemployment benefits are an essential characteristic of democracy	Pedersen, Rasmus T. 2019. “Attitudes on the Size of Unemployment Benefits: Ideology and Numbers.” Scandinavian Political Studies. 42(1): 50-72.
9	Views on whether civil rights that protect people from state oppression are an essential characteristic of democracy	Mazumder, Soumyajit. 2018. “The Persistent Effect of U.S. Civil Rights Protests on Political Attitudes.” American Journal of Political Science. 62(4): 922-935.
10	Views as to whether the state making people’s incomes more equal is an essential characteristic of democracy	Lin, Ya-Feng, Yoshinori Kamo, and Tim Slack. 2018. “Is It the Government’s Responsibility to Reduce Income Inequality? An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Public Opinion toward Redistributive Policy in the United States, 1978 to 2016.” Sociological Spectrum. 38 (3): 162–173.
11	Views on whether obedience of rulers is an essential characteristic of democracy	Jung, Jong Hyun. 2020. “Belief in Hell and Parenting Priorities Concerning Child Independence and Obedience: Does Economic Context Matter?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 59 (4): 629-645.
12	Views on whether gender equality is an essential characteristic of democracy	Gerling, Heather, Ash-Houchen William, and Celia C. Lo. 2019. “Fractured modernization: cultural and structural predictors of attitudes on gender equality.” International Review of Sociology. 29 (2): 260-278.
13	Left vs. Right ideology	Bosancianu, Constantin Manuel. 2017. “A Growing Rift in Values? Income and Educational Inequality and Their Impact on Mass Attitude Polarization.” Social Science Quarterly. 98 (5): 1587-1602.
14	Democratic satisfaction	Norris, Pippa. 2019. “Do perceptions of electoral malpractice undermine democratic satisfaction? The US in comparative perspective.” International Political Science Review. 40 (1): 5-22.