Population diversity, multiculturalism, and the welfare state: Should welfare state theory be revised?

Myles, John; St-Arnaud, Sébastien

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“…First, the concept itself is empirically and theoretically underspecified and there is no agreement on which of the diverse cultural differences are politically relevant. While for example Alesina and Glaeser () or Alesina and La Ferrara () showed that ethnic heterogeneity in the USA reduces people's social activities and thereby influences public policies, Jobard (: 238) doubts that this is the case in France, and Taylor‐Gooby () and Myles and St‐Arnaud () could not reproduce the US results for Europe at all. Huntington () argues that it is mainly the differences in religious beliefs that matter, while others emphasise the importance of differences in income, education or occupation (e.g.…”

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How much heterogeneity can the welfare state endure? The influence of heterogeneity on attitudes to the welfare state

Hjerm

Schnabel

2012

Nations and Nationalism

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Cultural and economic heterogeneity is often seen as a major threat to modern welfare states. This article contributes to the discussion of how much heterogeneity the welfare state can endure by theoretically and empirically focusing on the relationship between different levels of national identity and the support for welfare state policies. We analyse the effect of different types of national identity on attitudes towards taxation and redistribution. We show that it is the subjective aspect of national identity, or social cohesion, that in fact matters for predicting attitudes to the welfare state. In comparison, more objective measures of heterogeneity like the inequality of income distribution, language fractionalisation or the percentage of foreign‐born individuals do not have any effect on attitudes to the welfare state.

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“…Alesina and Glaeser 2004;Sears and Citrin 1985;Soss, Schram and Fording 2003), little support for this relationship is found outside the USA -even though more elaborate controls were in use (e.g. Myles and St-Arnaud 2006;Taylor-Gooby 2005).…”

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How much heterogeneity can the welfare state endure? The influence of heterogeneity on attitudes to the welfare state

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2012

Nations and Nationalism

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“…10. Furthermore, a highly relevant question is whether it is possible to preserve the support to a generally high level of public social security in a society with large minorities, and whether the different elements of cohesion, for instance general trust, are eroded in a multicultural society; see, among others, Gesthuizen (2009), Myles and St-Arnaud (2006) and Putnam (2007). 11.…”

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Social cohesion and the transformation from ethnic to multicultural society: The Case of Denmark

Kærgård

2010

Ethnicities

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Danish society used to have a very homogenous culture; everybody was Lutheran and there were only very small groups of ethnic minorities. However, since the 1960s the immigration of foreign workers and refugees has created substantial minority groups of people who are very different ethnically, religiously and linguistically. Becoming a multicultural country may be particularly problematic for such a formerly homogeneous society; formal and informal rules for the co-existence of different ethnic and religious segments of the society have until now not been necessary.

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“…There is a well-developed literature documenting the significant social policy change occurring in advanced economy welfare states over the past 30 years (see Pierson, 2001;Castles, 2004). However the welfare state literature has rarely considered the intersection between policy change and the recognitive justice claims accompanying recent growth in ethnic diversity (Myles and St-Arnaud, 2006). Recently, however, Banting et al (2006) compared 16 welfare states between 1980 and 2000, testing whether support for the welfare state is eroded by strong multicultural policies.…”

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Institutions, interests and ideas: explaining social policy change in welfare states incorporating an indigenous population

Humpage

2010

Journal of European Social Policy

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The last 30 years has seen significant change in social policy regarding indigenous peoples living in advanced welfare states. However, such change has not been uniform even in ‘liberal’ welfare states where the recognitive claims of indigenous peoples have been most widely endorsed by governments. This article proposes a tentative framework for qualitatively analysing these divergences in indigenous social policy cross-nationally, using the example of indigenous capacity building initiatives from New Zealand and Australia to demonstrate its utility. It is argued that, in combining an emphasis on institutions, interests and ideas, the framework may offer a way to answer both traditional welfare questions — do welfare regimes matter? — as well as recent ones emerging in many European countries about the best balance between recognition and redistribution.

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Population diversity, multiculturalism, and the welfare state: Should welfare state theory be revised?

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How much heterogeneity can the welfare state endure? The influence of heterogeneity on attitudes to the welfare state

How much heterogeneity can the welfare state endure? The influence of heterogeneity on attitudes to the welfare state

Social cohesion and the transformation from ethnic to multicultural society: The Case of Denmark

Institutions, interests and ideas: explaining social policy change in welfare states incorporating an indigenous population

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