American Worker Project, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC 20005, USA.
J Aging Soc Policy. 2010 Apr;22(2):207-21. doi: 10.1080/08959421003621804.
Americans' attitudes about retirement policy reform are being pulled in two directions. Because of their worries about retirement security, individuals are likely to support greater government intervention. However, because of their belief in the value of self-reliance, individuals are likely to be concerned about government interventions in the economy. This paper explores the tension between self-interest and self-reliant values and examines how these factors affect attitudes about retirement policy, testing, with a unique private survey, the degree to which concern about retirement security leads self-interested Americans increasingly to support retirement policy reforms and those with self-reliant values to decrease support. The paper also attempts to tease out the conditions under which self-interest and self-reliant values exert greater or less influence on views about retirement policy. In doing so, the paper helps clarify the level of public support for retirement policy reform and indicates the types of policies likely to garner higher levels of support.
美国人对退休政策改革的态度存在分歧。由于担心退休保障，个人可能会支持政府加大干预力度。然而，由于个人坚信自力更生的价值观，他们可能会担心政府对经济的干预。本文探讨了自利与自力更生价值观之间的紧张关系，并研究了这些因素如何影响对退休政策的态度，通过一项独特的私人调查来检验对退休保障的担忧在多大程度上导致自利的美国人越来越支持退休政策改革，而那些具有自力更生价值观的人则减少支持。本文还试图梳理出自利和自力更生价值观对退休政策观点的影响更大或更小的条件。通过这样做，本文有助于阐明公众对退休政策改革的支持程度，并指出可能获得更高支持水平的政策类型。
