Insecure alliances: Risk, inequality, and support for the welfare state

P Rehm, JS Hacker, M Schlesinger - American political science …, 2012 - cambridge.org
Popular support for the welfare state varies greatly across nations and policy domains. We
argue that these variations—vital to understanding the politics of the welfare state—reflect in …

Everyday conversations about economic inequality: a research agenda

D Schieferdecker, S Reinhardt, J Mijs… - Sociology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
High and rising levels of economic inequality come at a tremendous cost to societies, yet the
public is often hesitant to confront these inequalities. Prior research has attempted to explain …

Policy ideology in European mass publics, 1981–2016

D Caughey, T O'grady, C Warshaw - American Political Science …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Using new scaling methods and a comprehensive public opinion dataset, we develop the
first survey-based time-series–cross-sectional measures of policy ideology in European …

Crowding out culture: Scandinavians and Americans agree on social welfare in the face of deservingness cues

L Aarøe, MB Petersen - The Journal of Politics, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
A robust finding in the welfare state literature is that public support for the welfare state
differs widely across countries. Yet recent research on the psychology of welfare support …

Attitudes towards redistribution and the interplay between perceptions and beliefs about inequality

E García‐Sánchez, D Osborne, GB Willis… - British Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although economic inequality has increased over the last few decades, support for
redistributive policies is not widely accepted by the public. In this paper, we examine …

Two decades after Korpi and Palme's “paradox of redistribution”: What have we learned so far and where do we take it from here?

D Gugushvili, T Laenen - Journal of International and Comparative …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Over two decades ago, Korpi and Palme (1998) published one of the most influential papers
in the history of social policy discipline, in which they put forward a “paradox of …

Three worlds of welfare chauvinism? How welfare regimes affect support for distributing welfare to immigrants in Europe

J Van Der Waal, W De Koster… - Policy Sectors in …, 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Analyzing the 2008 wave of the European Social Survey, this study assesses whether an
elaborate institutional theory is able to explain why levels of welfare chauvinism differ …

Eco-social divides in Europe: Public attitudes towards welfare and climate change policies

A Otto, D Gugushvili - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the face of accelerating global warming and attendant natural disasters, it is clear that
governments all over the world eventually have to take measures to mitigate the most …

Preferences in context: Micro preferences, macro contexts, and the demand for social policy

J Gingrich, B Ansell - Comparative Political Studies, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Political economists have increasingly looked to understand social welfare policy as a
product of individual-level demand for social spending. This work hypothesizes that …

Beyond positive and negative: New perspectives on feedback effects in public opinion on the welfare state

MR Busemeyer, A Abrassart, R Nezi - British Journal of Political …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The study of policy feedback on public attitudes and policy preferences has become a
growing area of research in recent years. Scholars in the tradition of Pierson usually argue …