Practising what you preach: how cosmopolitanism promotes willingness to redistribute across the European Union
通过英国和德国的实验室实验及欧盟28国的跨国调查数据，研究发现世界主义能提升人们对其他欧洲人的慷慨程度和对国际再分配的支持，且这一效应独立于自利、国内再分配支持等因素。
The political fault lines surrounding the European sovereign debt crisis have underlined the political relevance and the fragile foundation of public support for international redistribution in the European Union. Against the backdrop of an emerging political integration-demarcation divide, this contribution examines how cosmopolitanism structures people’s willingness to redistribute internationally within the European Union. To this aim, we conducted laboratory experiments on redistributive behaviour towards other European citizens in the United Kingdom and Germany and analysed cross-national survey data on support for international redistribution covering the EU-28. Our findings suggest that cosmopolitanism increases generosity towards other Europeans and support for international redistribution even when controlling for self-interest, support for national redistribution, concern for others and political ideology.