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How does the Welfare State Model Influence Social Political Attitudes? An Analysis of Citizens Concrete and Abstract Attitudes Toward Poverty
- Source :
- Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. 33(3):201-224
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This study examines the relationship between the welfare state models and social political attitudes. The data are based on the sixth round of the European Social Survey. The study revealed a mechanism of how the relationship between concrete and abstract attitudes differs between the welfare states. In the Anglo-Saxon and Nordic welfare states the relationship is a positive one, which indicates that the welfare state has a broad support among citizens. In the Continental, Eastern and Southern welfare states the relationship is a negative one. This means that the less satisfied citizens are with governmental measures, the more positive their attitudes are regarding protecting citizens against poverty. Also the study showed that the welfare state model directly influences citizens’ concrete attitudes and indirectly influences abstract poverty attitudes. In this sense, the welfare state model is seen more as an attitudinal perception than an actual social policy.
- Subjects :
- Economic growth
Health (social science)
Sociology and Political Science
Poverty
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Welfare state
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0506 political science
European Social Survey
Politics
Political science
Perception
0502 economics and business
050602 political science & public administration
Demographic economics
050207 economics
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Social policy
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....71d25c278b24b525609ab24238ea8edc