Lay explanations for poverty: A multilevel analysis of European public opinion (1976 – 2014)

Marquis, Lionel

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-27043-8_15

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“…Next to the Eurobarometer series which will be analyzed in this article, the four-type typology also features in the European Values Study (waves 2-4), in the British Social Attitudes Survey (until 2010), and in the World Values Survey (waves 2-5). Accordingly, the measurement of poverty attributions pursued in the current study has been validated by its use in many studies yielding similar findings (e.g., Kainu & Niemelä, 2014;Kallio & Niemelä, 2014;Lepianka et al, 2010;Marquis, 2020;Niemelä, 2008).…”

Section: A (Not So) New Construct: Explanations For Povertymentioning

confidence: 55%

“…Likewise, they may be useful to measure the convergence between attitudes of elites and mass public attitudes. Thus, for example, when some countries took austerity measures including shrinkage of social services in the wake of the 2008 crisis, this was at odds with a surge of the "social blame" attribution of poverty in the years 2009-2014 (Marquis, 2020), which may help explain the social turmoil arising in this period.…”

Section: A (Not So) New Construct: Explanations For Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

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When Explanations for Poverty Help Explain Social Policy Preferences: The Case of European Public Opinion Amidst the Economic Recession (2009–2014)

Marquis

Rosset

2021

Soc Just Res

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Individuals hold beliefs about what causes poverty, and those beliefs have been theorized to explain policy preferences and ultimately cross-country variations in welfare states. However, there has been little empirical work on the effects of poverty attributions on welfare state attitudes. We seek to fill this gap by making use of Eurobarometer data from 27 European countries in the years 2009, 2010 and 2014 to explore the effects of poverty attributions on judgments about economic inequality as well as preferences regarding the welfare state. Relying on a four-type typology of poverty attribution which includes individual fate, individual blame, social fate and social blame as potential explanations for poverty, our analyses show that these poverty attributions are associated with judgments about inequality and broadly defined support for the welfare state, but have little or no effect on more concrete policy proposals such as unemployment benefits or increase of social welfare at the expense of higher taxes.

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Section: A (Not So) New Construct: Explanations For Povertymentioning

confidence: 55%

Section: A (Not So) New Construct: Explanations For Povertymentioning

confidence: 99%

When Explanations for Poverty Help Explain Social Policy Preferences: The Case of European Public Opinion Amidst the Economic Recession (2009–2014)

Marquis

Rosset

2021

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“…This classification has been employed by a number of studies using data from the Eurobarometer and other international surveys (e.g. Kainu & Niemelä, 2014;Lepianka et al, 2010;Marquis, 2020).…”

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“…Cross-country studies on poverty attributions usually focus on the impact of countrylevel characteristics on poverty beliefs (see e.g. da Costa & Dias, 2015; Lepianka et al, 2010;Marquis, 2020). Da Costa and Dias (2015), utilising data from Eurobarometer 2007, reported that the most developed countries (those ranking highest in terms of the Human Development Index and with the lowest poverty rates) attributed poverty to individualistic and fatalistic causes, while the least developed countries explained it through structural causes.…”

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Social Workers’ Causal Attributions for Poverty: Does the Level of Spatial Concentration of Disadvantages Matter?

2022

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Social workers may play an important role in the implementation of welfare policies targeted at the poor. Their norms, beliefs, and attitudes form local anti-poverty programmes and affect discretionary practices with their clients. Despite this, we know little about how social workers’ exposure to poverty shapes their attitudes towards poverty and their causal attributions for poverty. This study investigates social workers’ poverty explanations and the extent to which they depend on the level of local poverty. Data from a survey conducted among Hungarian social workers were analysed using multilevel linear regression models. To measure local poverty, we used a composite index of poverty, as well as a subjective measure of exposure to poverty. Our analysis revealed that most social workers explained poverty with structural causes, but individual blame was also frequent. Contrary to our hypothesis, the level of local poverty did not significantly increase the adoption of structural explanations but did raise the occurrence of individualistic ones. However, the effect of local poverty was non-linear: social workers tended to blame the poor for their poverty in the poorest municipalities, where multiple disadvantages are concentrated, while moderate poverty did not lead to such opinions. Our results suggest that efforts should be made to improve the poverty indicator framework to better understand the phenomenon of spatial concentration of multiple disadvantages and its consequences for the poor.

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“…The research work aims at revealing the changes in the interpretation of poverty that happened during these unprecedented times, focusing on the changes of subjective poverty lines and the perceived consequences of poverty. This question is relevant because unusual social and/or economic strains like the COVID-19 pandemic and the related social and economic downturn can temporarily modify the public perception of poverty (Hunt, 1996, Kluegel & Smith, 1986, Lee et al, 1990, Marquis, 2020. Public perception of poverty was examined in St. Louis County, Minnesota, at the beginning of 2020 (before COVID-19 pandemic) with cultural domain analysis and the methods of systematic data collection.…”

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How Have the Subjective Poverty Lines and The Perceived Consequences of Poverty Changed During the Pandemic in Minnesota?

Nándori

2021

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I examine how the subjective interpretation of poverty has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic downturn in St. Louis County, Minnesota, using comparative data from a data collection conducted before and during the pandemic. The data collection using cultural domain analysis asked information about the informants’ beliefs about poverty. I find that the importance of the main perceived consequences of poverty did not change significantly during the pandemic. In both Surveys, consequences related to material needs made up an important part of the items. A remarkable difference, however, is that the problem of perpetuated poverty is perceived to be more important during the pandemic. The subjective poverty lines did not change significantly during the pandemic either. The income level below which most of the people can be considered poor is between $ 14-15 per capita hourly net income on average. Three friends who are ready and able to help were enough to avoid poverty. Most of the large families are perceived to be poor when they bring up at least three children, while it was two children right before the pandemic. As for educational level, the poverty threshold was increased from 11th grade to high school graduate. It implies that if the individual did not graduate from high school, (s)he is more likely to become poor than before the pandemic.

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Lay explanations for poverty: A multilevel analysis of European public opinion (1976 – 2014)

Cited by 5 publications

References 39 publications

When Explanations for Poverty Help Explain Social Policy Preferences: The Case of European Public Opinion Amidst the Economic Recession (2009–2014)

When Explanations for Poverty Help Explain Social Policy Preferences: The Case of European Public Opinion Amidst the Economic Recession (2009–2014)

Social Workers’ Causal Attributions for Poverty: Does the Level of Spatial Concentration of Disadvantages Matter?

How Have the Subjective Poverty Lines and The Perceived Consequences of Poverty Changed During the Pandemic in Minnesota?

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