Journal Articles

The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes: How Welfare Regimes Influence Public Support

---

Why are people who live in liberal welfare regimes so reluctant to support welfare policy?
And why are people who live in social democratic welfare regimes so keen to support welfare policy?
This article seeks to give an institutional account of these cross-national differences.
Previous attempts to link institutions and welfare attitudes have not been convincing. The empirical studies have had large difficulties in finding the expected effects from regime-dependent differences in self-interest, class interest, and egalitarian values. This article develops a new theoretical macro—micro link by combining the literature on deservingness criteria and the welfare regime theory. The basic ideas are that three regime characteristics, (a) the degree of universalism in welfare policy, (b) the differences in economic resources between "the bottom" and "the majority," and (c) the degree of job opportunities, have a profound impact on the public deservingness discussion and thereby on public support for welfare policy.

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

Comparative Political Studies

Call Number

-

Publisher

California : Sage Publications., 2008

Collation

-

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0010-4140

Classification

-

Content Type

-

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

-

Edition

Vol. 41, No. 2, February 2008. Page 145-168

Subject(s)

Welfare regime
Deservingness
Public support
Micro foundation
Welfare policy
The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment