@article{Poczta_Wajda:230867,
      recid = {230867},
      author = {Poczta_Wajda, Agnieszka},
      title = {Feeling of Relative Deprivation as a Driver for Higher  Agricultural Subsidies},
      journal = {Problems of World Agriculture / Problemy Rolnictwa  Światowego},
      address = {2015-12},
      number = {1827-2016-147727},
      series = {Zeszyty Naukowe Szkoły Głównej Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego  Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego / Scientific Journal Warsaw  University of Life Sciences – SGGW Problems of World  Agriculture},
      pages = {10},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Because people tend to compare themselves with others from  their own surroundings, even a person rich in absolute  terms can feel poor in relative terms, if people from their  reference group are richer. This phenomenon is called  relative deprivation. Farmers in developed economies claim  to be poor, because they compare themselves not with  farmers from poor economies, but rather with other members  of their own society who work outside of agriculture and  whose incomes are usually higher. Feeling relatively  deprived, farmers in developed economies demand stronger  financial support and act intensively to convince  policymakers to support them. The main aim of this paper is  to analyze the relation between relative deprivation of  farmers and support for farmers in countries with different  development levels. Results of this study prove that levels  of support for farmers are positively related with the  average level of relative deprivation of farmers dependent  on the size of farmer groups. Hence the idea of relative  deprivation might provide additional political explanation  of different levels of support for farmers in countries  with different development levels.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/230867},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.230867},
}