Varieties of Affluence: How Political Attitudes of the Rich Are Shaped by Income or Wealth

Sociological research often uses income as the only indicator to describe or proxy the group of the rich. This article develops an alternative framework in order to describe varieties of affluence as three-dimensional: depending on income, wealth, and origin of wealth. The relevance of such a multidimensional perspective for social outcomes is demonstrated by analysing the heterogeneity in political attitudes between different varieties of affluence. For this purpose, ordinary least squares regressions are applied to a sample from 2005, 2009, and 2014 German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The main results are, first, that the perspective of varieties of affluence reveals significant differences in social outcomes as demonstrated by political attitudes. Especially wealth possession is related to significantly more right political attitudes. Second, there is strong explorative evidence that the rich in Germany should be regarded as a heterogeneous group. These findings are robust to influential data, multiple imputations of wealth data, and endogeneity due to pooled data. The article concludes, among other things, that more data are required to make more certain assertions.Who Are "the Rich" and Why Does It Matter? Varieties of Affluence Affluence and Political Attitudes Methodology Results Discussion Conclusion Footnotes Acknowledgements Funding References Supplementary dat

Spontaneous Breaking of Translational Invariance in One-Dimensional Stationary States on a Ring

We consider a model in which positive and negative particles diffuse in an asymmetric, CP-invariant way on a ring. The positive particles hop clockwise, the negative counterclockwise and oppositely-charged adjacent particles may swap positions. Monte-Carlo simulations and analytic calculations suggest that the model has three phases; a "pure" phase in which one has three pinned blocks of only positive, negative particles and vacancies, and in which translational invariance is spontaneously broken, a "mixed" phase with a non-vanishing current in which the three blocks are positive, negative and neutral, and a disordered phase without blocks.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, needs epsf.st

A History of the Evangelical Lutheran (Missouri Synod) Mission for China

In writing this paper, I hope to have contributed something quite new to the history of Lutheran Foreign Missions. To my knowledge, no one has written on this phase of the work before. Although our China Mission is still young, it is high time that its history be written. While the Mission was founded only 20 years ago, the writer has experienced much difficulty in obtaining reliable information on several points

Optical device enables small detector to see large field of view

Optical device images the sun on a mask that transmits it or prevents its transmission to a photodetector behind the mask depending on image position on the mask. The device uses a pinhole as the image former to provide a large field of view and diffraction-limited resolution

Alien Registration Card- Arndt, Eva H. (Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County)

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