How does the welfare state model influence social political attitudes? An analysis of citizens' concrete and abstract attitudes toward poverty

Toikko, Timo; Rantanen, Teemu

doi:10.1080/21699763.2017.1302892

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“…Previous work has shown that compared to other parts of the welfare state, citizen support for health care is much higher (Jensen, 2011(Jensen, , 2012Jensen & Petersen, 2017), potentially because of deeply rooted biological and evolutionary mechanisms triggering a willingness to help the sick in need. This is different from other areas of the welfare state, in particular unemployment insurance or social assistance, as being unemployed or in poverty might also be attributed to individuals' inaction to overcome these situations (Toikko & Rantanen, 2017;Van Oorschot, 2006).…”

Section: The Impact Of the Crisis Over Timementioning

confidence: 83%

Financing the welfare state in times of extreme crisis: public support for health care spending during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Busemeyer

2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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Employing new and original survey data collected in three waves (April/May and November 2020 as well as May 2021) in Germany, this paper studies the dynamics of individual-level support for additional health care spending. A first major finding is that, so far, health care spending preferences have not radically changed during the Covid-19 pandemic, at least at the aggregate level. A more detailed analysis reveals, secondly, that individual-level support for additional spending on health care is strongly conditioned by performance perceptions and, to a lesser extent, general political trust. Citizens who regard the system as badly (well) prepared to cope with the crisis are more likely to support (oppose) additional spending. Higher levels of political trust are also positively associated with spending support, but to a lesser degree. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for policy-making and welfare state politics in the post-pandemic era.

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Section: The Impact Of the Crisis Over Timementioning

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Financing the welfare state in times of extreme crisis: public support for health care spending during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Busemeyer

2021

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…Toikko & Rantanen, 2017). However, the degree of individualism cannot be directly related to the high or low welfare state performance in social policy because, for instance, the Nordic countries seem to have a high welfare state performance but also relative high support (i.e., preferences) for the state's welfare responsibility.…”

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“…For instance, Sweden is a typical example of an individualistic country (Hofstede Insights, 2018), and Sweden is also an example of a highly developed welfare system with broad universal benefits and services. In turn, Portugal is a country with a collectivistic culture (Hofstede Insights, 2018), but its social political system does not place as much emphasis on the state's responsibility as with the case of Sweden (Esping-Andersen, 2015; Roosma, Van Oorschot, & Gelissen, 2013;Toikko & Rantanen, 2017). The relationship between country-level cultural values and welfare attitudes is thus a complex issue.…”

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Association between individualism and welfare attitudes: An analysis of citizens’ attitudes towards the state’s welfare responsibility

Toikko

Rantanen

2020

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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The present study examines the association between individualistic values and citizens´ attitudes towards the state’s welfare responsibility (welfare attitudes). This study also examines the association between political placement and welfare attitudes. Data from the European Social Survey (N = 37,743 in 20 countries) are analyzed using a two-level regression analysis. The findings indicate that individualism at the cultural culture is a significant factor in terms of individuals’ attitudes to welfare, in that the higher the level of individualism, the lesser the likelihood that the state’s welfare responsibility is supported. On the other hand, citizens’ attitudes towards state responsibility for welfare are associated with the political placement of those citizens. Politically, people leaning to the right have a lower degree of interest in the state’s welfare responsibility. Furthermore, the degree of individualism modifies the association at the individual level of political placement and welfare attitudes. There is a greater attitudinal difference between the supporters of right-wing and left-wing political views in individualistic countries than in collectivist countries. From a social policy perspective, this study emphasizes the association of individualism and welfare attitudes. The results suggest that social policy is based more on national cultural values than one might assume.

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“…also Wacquant 2009). Studies of welfare state regimes have a relatively long history, given that their institutional origins are linked to the end of World War II (Wilensky and Lebeaux 1958;Hunter 1958;Titmuss 1974;Mishra 1981). One of the most common typologies of welfare states was proposed by the Danish sociologist Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1990).…”

Section: Social Welfare and The Welfare Statementioning

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The Struggle for Social Welfare: Towards an Emerging Welfare Sociology

Baranowski

2019

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The main aim of the article is to outline welfare sociology as a potential sub-discipline of sociology and to discuss the issues of broadly defined social welfare. While in contemporary social sciences the literature concerning welfare often focuses on themes such as happiness (psychology), prosperity (economics), or quality of life (sociology), these themes may be considered too narrow and do not reflect the complexity of the issue. However, if one considers the definition of social welfare through the prism of material and non-material needs, as well as the needs expressed individually and collectively, it is possible to attempt a comprehensive study of this phenomenon. The author uses the definition of social welfare to look at research on (a) welfare state regimes, (b) welfare attitudes and (c) issues of work in contemporary capitalism, all to enable the application of research results within the analysis of the title concept.

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How does the welfare state model influence social political attitudes? An analysis of citizens' concrete and abstract attitudes toward poverty

Cited by 16 publications

References 79 publications

Financing the welfare state in times of extreme crisis: public support for health care spending during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Financing the welfare state in times of extreme crisis: public support for health care spending during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Association between individualism and welfare attitudes: An analysis of citizens’ attitudes towards the state’s welfare responsibility

The Struggle for Social Welfare: Towards an Emerging Welfare Sociology

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