1. Dynamic Cleavages of ‘Welfare Rights and Duties’ in Public Attitude Towards Old-age Pensions.
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Ahn, Sang-Hoon and Kim, Soo-Wan
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PUBLIC welfare , *PENSIONS , *SOCIAL & economic rights , *COMPARATIVE studies ,SOCIAL aspects - Abstract
This study investigated public attitudes towards pension spending in welfare states. By utilising a dataset covering 21 different Western European countries and conducting a multi-level analyses, three main findings resulted. First, as the welfare status model suggests, the status of welfare duties as well as the status of welfare rights proved to play a key role in shaping the political cleavages over public pensions at both macro- and micro-levels. Second, age and gender also seem to be significant sources of cleavage in addition to class-related variables. Finally, the study examined empirically the interaction effect of age and class-related factors to reveal that class-based interests offset generational interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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