abstract: 'In this article, we explore the associations of people''s valuations of universal healthcare with risk exposure and humanitarianism across diverse institutional contexts. We argue that both micro-level factors increase the valuations. Furthermore, interactions between material interests and humanitarians are expected. This work also hypothesizes that institutional contexts with employment-independent healthcare systems should modify the effect of risk exposure. Following a comparative framework, we test the expectations by using the International Social Survey Programme 2011 health module for 28 developed and developing countries. Results suggest opposite effects for the factors under analysis. While risk exposure decreases the willingness to pay taxes for the provision of universal healthcare, humanitarianism strongly fosters the valuation. Furthermore, we find statistical significant interactions between material interests and humanitarianism. Results also suggest substantive cross-level interactions between risk exposure and healthcare systems. Findings are robust to different modeling strategies that control for standard micro-level variables (income and egalitarianism), individual factors and observed and unobserved country characteristics. The article lays out implications of these findings.' affiliation: 'Maldonado, L (Corresponding Author), Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Inst Sociol, Ave Vicuna Mackenna, Santiago 4860, Chile. Maldonado, L (Corresponding Author), Natl Res Ctr Integrated Disaster Risk Management, Santiago, Chile. Maldonado, Luis; Atria, Jorge, Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Inst Sociol, Ave Vicuna Mackenna, Santiago 4860, Chile. Maldonado, Luis, Natl Res Ctr Integrated Disaster Risk Management, Santiago, Chile. Olivos, Francisco, Chinese Univ Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples R China. Carlos Castillo, Juan, Ctr Social Conflict \& Cohes Studies COES, Santiago, Chile. Carlos Castillo, Juan, Univ Chile, Santiago, Chile. Azar, Ariel, Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 USA.' author: Maldonado, Luis and Olivos, Francisco and Carlos Castillo, Juan and Atria, Jorge and Azar, Ariel author-email: lmaldona@uc.cl author_list: - family: Maldonado given: Luis - family: Olivos given: Francisco - family: Carlos Castillo given: Juan - family: Atria given: Jorge - family: Azar given: Ariel da: '2023-09-28' doi: 10.1007/s11211-019-00336-6 eissn: 1573-6725 files: [] issn: 0885-7466 journal: SOCIAL JUSTICE RESEARCH keywords: 'ISSP; Public attitude; Risk; Humanitarianism; Cross-national comparisons; Institutional contexts' keywords-plus: 'WELFARE-STATE; PUBLIC-ATTITUDES; POPULAR SUPPORT; JOB INSECURITY; MENTAL-HEALTH; LOW-COST; PREFERENCES; POLICY; REDISTRIBUTION; INEQUALITY' language: English month: SEP number: 3, SI number-of-cited-references: '84' orcid-numbers: 'Olivos, Francisco/0000-0001-6395-6593 Maldonado, Luis/0000-0002-0028-4766 Azar, Ariel/0000-0002-4868-8081' pages: 349-383 papis_id: 983a07fd898106c71517da7cfc478e61 ref: Maldonado2019riskexposure researcherid-numbers: 'Olivos, Francisco/M-9638-2019 ' times-cited: '3' title: 'Risk Exposure, Humanitarianism and Willingness to Pay for Universal Healthcare: A Cross-National Analysis of 28 Countries' type: article unique-id: WOS:000481763000005 usage-count-last-180-days: '0' usage-count-since-2013: '16' volume: '32' web-of-science-categories: Psychology, Social; Sociology year: '2019'