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Turkey, we believe, is a particularly appropriate country to study the effect of political view on poverty attribution since, as mentioned above, it has witnessed political polarization in many salient issues, including the elimination of poverty. For example, people with structuralist or individualistic explanations of propose different policies for poverty elimination than people with fatalistic views. We believe that the attribution of poverty according to political views is important since different people because this leads to support for different poverty elimination policies. Some scholars have noted Turkey’s recent political polarization due to the divisive discourse of elites while partisan considerations strongly influenced voters’ opinions regarding many salient social and political issues (Aytaç et al., 2017 Ertan et al., 2022). Our main motivation and focus in this paper is to investigate whether people with different political views see the causes of poverty differently. This paper aims to contribute to research into the perceived causes of poverty in Turkey by analyzing the perceived attributions for poverty among the urban population with different income levels, political views, and socio-economic factors, namely gender, marital status, education level, age, and self-reported class.

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