### The Big Question
Why do voters agree to bear the costs of bailing out other countries? Despite public opinion's prominence in eurozone bailout debates, voter preferences remained unclear.
### Our Clues
We analyzed survey data from Germany—the country with the largest share of EU financial rescue fund responsibility.
### What We Found
Individuals' economic standing didn't strongly predict their stance on bailouts. Instead, social dispositions like altruism and cosmopolitanism robustly correlated with support for them.
### The Implication
The divide reflects foreign policy tensions—not domestic winners/losers dynamics—suggesting the bailout debate is fundamentally about international concerns versus national interests.
| Preferences for International Redistribution: The Divide over the Eurozone Bailouts was authored by Michael M. Bechtel, Jens Hainmueller and Yotam Margalit. It was published by Wiley in AJPS in 2014. |
