Attitudes Toward Universal Basic Income and Welfare State in Europe: A Research Note

Lee, Soomi

doi:10.1515/bis-2018-0002

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“…In line with several recent theoretical and empirical studies on UBI (cf. Baranowski & Jabkowski, 2019;Lee, 2018;Meuleman et al, 2018;Rossetti, Roosma, Laenen, & Abts, 2020;Taylor-Gooby & Leruth, 2018), we find that the overall support for basic income varies widely in the European countries participating in the 8th round of the ESS project. For example, national-level support for the basic income scheme ranged from 33.1% in Norway to 79.9% in Lithuania (see Table 1).…”

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“…There is a considerable gap between a rich theoretical consideration of the UBI schemes and a limited number of various empirical studies (field experiments, see Haushofer & Shapiro, 2013;Schjoedt, 2016;Standing, 2013; financial simulations, see Arcarons, Pañella, & Mèlich, 2014;OECD, 2017) with a particular emphasis on the surveys on this topic (Baranowski & Jabkowski, 2019;Cardone, 2021;Lee, 2018;Roosma & van Oorschot, 2020;Vlandas, 2021). Thus, there is a clear need for a systematic empirical cross-national analysis to better understand the importance of individual factors for UBI support in different national contexts.…”

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Basic income support in Europe: A cross-national analysis based on the European Social Survey Round 8

Baranowski¹,

Jabkowski²

2021

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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In recent years, the issue of unconditional basic income has become both an element of a broad discussion among theoreticians and practitioners responsible for public policy and a basis for the experiments aimed at investigating social and economic consequences of introducing this programme; however, there is a lack of empirical analyses focused on public attitudes towards basic income. Based on the data from the European Social Survey Round 8 (n=41,830), we examined the level of support for introducing basic income and identified its individual-level determinants in 22 European countries. Our analysis focused on the systematic differences (both in the level of support for basic income and the strength of the impact of sociopolitical factors) between particular countries and different European regions, namely Western, Southern, Northern and Central-Eastern states. The results confirm that the support for basic income varies according to (a) the region of Europe as well as (b) the key role of the socioeconomic position of the individual.

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Section: Aims Of the Papermentioning

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Basic income support in Europe: A cross-national analysis based on the European Social Survey Round 8

Baranowski¹,

Jabkowski²

2021

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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“…In contrast to previous studies, we do not focus on a single operationalization of deprivation, but instead examine three dimensions that correspond to the individual, group and contextual level. First, we compare individuals with a (perceived) low income and those with a high one, as it has been shown that income and financial hardship are important predictors of support for a BI (Choi 2021 ; Lee 2018 ). However, in addition to this individual (or household) measure of hardship, we focus on the role of group-relative deprivation, which plays a substantial role in forming people’s opinions about the welfare state (Van Hootegem et al 2021 ).…”

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A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income

Hootegem

Laenen

2022

Acta Polit

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Although a basic income (BI) has already been widely debated, the COVID-19 crisis further intensified the discussion about this periodic cash payment that is unconditionally delivered to all. However, it remains unclear whether the crisis spurred a wave of public support for its introduction. To investigate this, we aim to answer two research questions: (1) How did support for a BI evolve in reaction to the COVID-19 crisis? and (2) To what extent did the evolution in support differ across regional contexts and social groups with varying levels of deprivation? We rely on a natural experiment by analysing data from the Belgian National Elections Study that was collected both before and during the pandemic. The results indicate an increase in support for a BI due to the pandemic, although it seems short lived and not necessarily specific to a BI. Importantly, however, the increase in popularity is only observable in the high-unemployment French-speaking region of Belgium and among relatively deprived groups.

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“…In this regard, some valuable insights are offered by studies of public attitudes towards a UBI. Most studies have found moderate to high levels of support for the scheme (e.g., Delsen & Schilpzand, 2019; Lee, 2018), indicating that large sections of the population support major welfare reform, away from the dominant principle of equity in favour of the principle of equality. These studies are, however, somewhat one‐sided in their focus, as they did not present respondents with the opposing reform alternative of shifting towards the principle of need.…”

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Welfare state dissatisfaction and support for major welfare reform: Towards means‐tested welfare or a universal basic income?

Laenen

Gugushvili

2022

Int J Soc Welfare

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This research note investigates how people combine their views on two radically opposing welfare reforms: a universal basic income and a fully means-tested welfare state. Using data from the 2016-2017 European Social Survey, we found that support for transformative welfare reform is rooted in perceptions of the performance of the current system. The preferred direction of reform, however, strongly depends on the specific aspects of the welfare state people are happy or unhappy with. At the country-level, we show that underperforming welfare states-in terms of higher poverty rates and lower social spending-increase popular demand for transformative welfare reform, in either direction. These findings are of crucial importance for ongoing debates about the future of the welfare state.

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Attitudes Toward Universal Basic Income and Welfare State in Europe: A Research Note

Cited by 37 publications

References 3 publications

Basic income support in Europe: A cross-national analysis based on the European Social Survey Round 8

Basic income support in Europe: A cross-national analysis based on the European Social Survey Round 8

A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income

Welfare state dissatisfaction and support for major welfare reform: Towards means‐tested welfare or a universal basic income?

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