사회적 약자 보호정책 선호 결정요인에 관한 연구: POUM 가설을 중심으로 = Determinants of Policy Preference for Social Protection: Focusing on the POUM Hypothesis

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study first examines the relationship between social class and policy preference for social protection in terms of the former’s effect on the latter, and then analyzes moderating effects of the prospect of upward mobility (POUM) on the relationship. The analysis was conducted to examine whether the different degrees to which citizens in the same social class perceived the POUM affected the relationship between the citizens’ policy preference for social protection and their social class. A multiple regression analysis taking into account interaction terms between social class and POUM was conducted. The results indicate that all classes except for the upper class(=reference group), which initially had plus signs when only social class was considered in the analysis, had negative interaction term signs when POUM was also taken into account. These results imply that POUM moderates social class and policy preference for social protection, which empirically supports the POUM hypothesis of Benabou and Ok (2001). This suggests that it is important to provide opportunity for upward mobility to reduce political confrontation and conflict surrounding expenditure for the socially disadvantaged.