From Enlightened Self‐interest to Welfare Coalitions: Overcoming Identity‐based Tensions in the Israeli Welfare State

Zehavi, Amos

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9515.2011.00815.x

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“…Table presents the categorizations. We also included Israel, which is an interesting case of a mixed model because it incorporates a historical base of social‐democratic features with aspects of the liberal and southern European regimes (Doron ) and is known for its heterogeneous populations (Zehavi ). We looked at the different levels of trust of public officials and non‐public officials in different countries and in different regimes.…”

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Do Public Officials Trust Citizens? A Welfare State Perspective

Walle

Lahat

2016

Soc Policy Adm

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In this exploratory study, we investigate whether public sector officials and non‐public sector officials differ in the trust they have in members of society and whether this difference is associated with the welfare regime in which they work. Using survey data from the sixth round of the European Social Survey, we compare public sector officials' trust to that of non‐public sector officials in 13 countries with four different forms of welfare regimes. Our results demonstrate that public officials have a higher level of trust than non‐public officials do. Furthermore, trust among both public and non‐public sector officials is much higher in social‐democratic regimes, followed by corporatist countries, liberal regimes, Israel (as a unique case) and, lastly, southern European regimes. As expected, public officials' degree of trust reflects the general trends of their societies. Interestingly, in social‐democratic regimes, differences between trust among public and non‐public officials are the highest compared to the other regimes. In addition, an individual‐level analysis in five countries illustrative of each welfare regime indicates that while income, belonging to a minority group, and age are significant factors in explaining public officials' trust, socio‐demographic variables contribute little to the differences between public and non‐public officials. Given the critical role of trust in the functioning of the welfare state, our results imply that further awareness and mechanisms for increasing the degree of trust of citizens among public officials are warranted.

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Do Public Officials Trust Citizens? A Welfare State Perspective

Walle

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2016

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“…Conversely, a range of scholars argue that since ELF and related arguments lack socio-historical embedding (Wimmer, 2015), they offer incomplete causal chains (Baldwin and Huber, 2010: 659), which can only be fully understood by adding broader factors (ideologies, coalition-making and so on) (Taylor-Gooby, 2005; Zehavi, 2012). Against this background, the present article questions whether welfare policymaking is indeed the exclusive purview of established nations.…”

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A nation of bureaucrats or a nation of workers? Welfare benefits as nation-building modernization tools in interwar Romania

Delcea

2021

Journal of European Social Policy

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As one of the most potent hypothesis in political economy, the negative impact of ethnic diversity on the provision of public goods made the welfare state–nation state isomorphism seem a one-way connection. Against the grain of existing studies I argue, through a case-study of interwar Romania, that welfare states are constructed to proactively (re)build the nation, rather than retroactively emanate from it, once established. Rather than an ahistorical ethnolinguistic fractionalization, the article takes nationhood as historically fluid and contested because through institutionalized action, elites can and do proactively revamp the political arena, redistributing coalitions of winners and losers based on exogenously given criteria. The article therefore shows that nation forgers typically internalize the global social question through the topoi of local socio-economic problems construed as a national question. Because elites can pick and choose who becomes part of the national compact, the politicization of the perception of incomplete nationhood provides a sufficient ideational thrust for welfare policymaking, irrespective of pre-existing national solidarities. Consequently, welfare policies are typically layered as remedial or compensatory policies designed to foster a specific social mobility, deemed in a top-down fashion to be completing the nation.

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From Enlightened Self‐interest to Welfare Coalitions: Overcoming Identity‐based Tensions in the Israeli Welfare State

Cited by 2 publications

References 22 publications

Do Public Officials Trust Citizens? A Welfare State Perspective

Do Public Officials Trust Citizens? A Welfare State Perspective

A nation of bureaucrats or a nation of workers? Welfare benefits as nation-building modernization tools in interwar Romania

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