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The researchers conducted a survey among Swedes that first looked at whether respondents had a good grasp of where they fell on the spectrum of their country's income distribution. They did not: When asked to estimate the percentage of their compatriots who earned a yearly income below their own, 74% of respondents were off by more than 10 percentage points. The vast majority (92%) of those who guessed wrongly underestimated their own positions -- meaning, they thought they were poorer than their compatriots. All those surveyed were also asked several questions meant to assess their political leanings. Adapted from the source document.

The researchers conducted a survey among Swedes that first looked at whether respondents had a good grasp of where they fell on the spectrum of their country's income distribution. They did not: When asked to estimate the percentage of their compatriots who earned a yearly income below their own, 74% of respondents were off by more than 10 percentage points. The vast majority (92%) of those who guessed wrongly underestimated their own positions -- meaning, they thought they were poorer than their compatriots. All those surveyed were also asked several questions meant to assess their political leanings. Adapted from the source document.

For more than 75 years, Hollywood—its studios and its stars—have played their parts in the political and cultural history of the UN, and twentieth-century internationalism. These days that relationship has been glamorized by celebrities who regularly report back from the world's crisis spots as ambassadors for UNICEF and UNHCR, or who speak out on women's issues on the UN's behalf. In this chapter I draw on original Academy of Motion Picture archives to examine the early history of the UN's relationship with Hollywood and the long history of the politics of media and international organizations. I situate that history in the context of the current debate regarding the imperialist dimensions of liberal internationalism, in order to better understand the significance of internationalism at the end of the Second World War. This is a history that takes us across a spectrum of mid-twentieth century political motivations: from idealism to economics. It also returns us to an older story of the significance of ideas in political history, and changing conceptions of the role ideas, and images, might play in changing the world's course.