The preferred role and perceived performance of the welfare state: European welfare attitudes from a multidimensional perspective

Roosma, Femke; Oorschot, Wim van; Gelissen, J.P.T.M.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.12.005

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“…The slope of public responsiveness (

β_{1}

) is always negative because the public want spending (

P_{t}

) to move toward their more stable absolute preferences (

W_{t}

) (see also Roosma, van Oorschot, & Gelissen, ; Steele, , for alternative approaches to relative and absolute preferences). Meanwhile, the slope of policy representation (

y_{1}

) is positive because it follows what the public wants.…”

Section: Simultaneous Feedback: From Theory To Model Specificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such questions found in several cross‐national surveys probe the degree of agreement that respondents express regarding the government's role to provide various social policies. Implicitly these questions contain both

W

and

R

as they are correlates of both the preferred role (i.e., absolute ideal‐level of provisions) and the perceived performance (i.e., relative preference for provisions) (Roosma et al, ). Therefore I estimate

O

, which is simply a measure of both

W

and

R

simultaneously.…”

Section: Simultaneous Feedback: From Theory To Model Specificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Positive Returns and Equilibrium: Simultaneous Feedback Between Public Opinion and Social Policy

Breznau¹

2016

Policy Studies Journal

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This paper pushes forward political research from across disciplines seeking to understand the linkages between public opinion and social policy in democracies. It considers the thermostatic and the increasing returns perspectives as pointing toward a potentially stable set of effects running between opinion and policy. Both theoretical perspectives argue that opinion and policy are reciprocally causal, feeding back on one another. This is a general argument found in opinion-policy literatures. However, much empirical research claims to model "feedback" effects when actually using separate unidirectional models of opinion and policy. Only a small body of research addresses opinion-policy endogeneity directly. In this paper I consider an opinion-policy system with simultaneous feedback and without lags. I argue that there is a theoretical equilibrium in the relationship of opinion and policy underlying the otherwise cyclical processes that link them. Given that available cross-national data are cross-sectional and provide limited degrees of freedom, an ideal theoretical model must be somewhat constrained in order to arrive at empirically meaningful results. In this challenging and exploratory undertaking I hope to open up the possibility of a general system of effects between public opinion and social policy and how to model them in future research. I focus on social welfare policy as it is highly salient to public interests and a costly area of government budgets, making it an area of contentious policymaking. Social policy is also a major part of the thermostatic model of opinion and policy, which was recently extended to the cross-national comparative context (Wlezien & Soroka, 2012) providing a critical predecessor to this paper because identification of equilibrium between public opinion and social policy in any given society is greatly enhanced through comparison with other societies. This counterfactual approach helps to identify opinion-policy patterns that may not change much within societies, but can be seen as taking on discrete trajectories between societies.

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“…The slope of public responsiveness (

β_{1}

) is always negative because the public want spending (

P_{t}

) to move toward their more stable absolute preferences (

W_{t}

) (see also Roosma, van Oorschot, & Gelissen, ; Steele, , for alternative approaches to relative and absolute preferences). Meanwhile, the slope of policy representation (

y_{1}

) is positive because it follows what the public wants.…”

Section: Simultaneous Feedback: From Theory To Model Specificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

W

and

R

O

, which is simply a measure of both

W

and

R

simultaneously.…”

Section: Simultaneous Feedback: From Theory To Model Specificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Positive Returns and Equilibrium: Simultaneous Feedback Between Public Opinion and Social Policy

Breznau¹

2016

Policy Studies Journal

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“…Pigou is generally recognized as the initiator of welfare economics. He first expounded the concept of welfare and successfully laid the foundation of traditional welfare theories (Roosma, 2014). Traditional welfare theories can be divided into two varieties: objectivist welfare theory and subjectivist welfare theory (Fang, 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changes in farmers’ welfare from land requisition in the process of rapid urbanization

Huang

Kwan

et al. 2015

Land Use Policy

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The marked impact of the welfare gap on total welfare within collectives has rarely, if at all, been addressed in traditional welfare theories and in Amartya Sen's theory of welfare functioning and capabilities.With this observation as our starting point, we constructed a research framework that combined welfare functioning, the welfare gap, and welfare capability to assess and analyze changes in the welfare of farmers whose land was requisitioned in Zhejiang province. The findings of our study were as follows. (1) The total welfare functioning of farmers whose land was requisitioned increased by 11.8% as a result of improvements in economic and dwelling conditions and community surroundings. However, social security and psychological conditions deteriorated. (2) Although total welfare functioning has improved, gaps are widening in the distribution of welfare functioning among farmers who underwent land requisition. This was evidenced by the increase of the weighted Gini coefficient, which rose from 0.26 to 0.32 after land requisition.(3) As a result of the improvement in welfare capability, a judgmental bias is evident when farmers assess whether they have gained or lost welfare after land requisition. We conclude that welfare studies should focus not only on the quantitative aspects of welfare distribution, but should also pay more attention to its fairness and impartiality. This can prevent social problems posed by an oversized welfare gap. Moreover, after land requisition, the government and community should provide education and training services, and the current one-time compensation model should be replaced by a lifelong compensation model. At the same time, endowment insurance should be extended in rural areas and urban medical insurance should be progressively incorporated into the social security benefits of farmers who have undergone land requisition.

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“…In the European Union, research shows that people strongly support the welfare state, often despite criticism of its activities (Roosma, van Oorschot, & Gelissen, 2014). However, in Russian society, the model of the social state (welfare state) is not clearly perceived (Lebedeva & Orlova, 2018), although certain provisions on the social state are contained in the Constitution of the Russian Federation (in article 7).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is natural that various aspects and results of the welfare state are actively investigated and discussed in the countries of the European Union. Among other things, there are such assessments of the consequences of the social state (welfare state) that "people become lazy", as well as that economic indicators are weakened, economic growth is slowed down (Roosma et al, 2014). Much attention is paid to the areas of welfare state reform in Western Europe (Garritzmann, Busemeyer, & Neimanns, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Social Inequality In The Views Of Different Generations

Lebedeva¹

2020

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Actual aspects of social inequality and social policy are considered when comparing the Russian experience and the experience of the European Union countries. The actual basis of the article is the materials of a sociological survey. The article takes into account that the problem of inequality has a broad and complex character, while there are common and different sides of inequality in different age-generational groups of the population. State social security policy is of great importance for the countries of the European Union and for Russia. Social policy of the state in the spirit of the constitutional provisions on the social state in Russia is important, especially in the aspect of solving social problems of different generations. The idea of "social justice" is the most relevant for all age-generational groups of Russians. Sociological materials suggest the need for society and the state to pay additional attention to the development of education, increase its accessibility to the masses and create conditions for connecting more significant masses of people to various forms of entrepreneurship as civilized ways and means for effective work and overcoming poverty. The social security system should be improved in accordance with the principles of targeting, flexibility, efficiency and taking into account the needs of different age and generational groups.

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The preferred role and perceived performance of the welfare state: European welfare attitudes from a multidimensional perspective

Cited by 97 publications

References 27 publications

Positive Returns and Equilibrium: Simultaneous Feedback Between Public Opinion and Social Policy

Positive Returns and Equilibrium: Simultaneous Feedback Between Public Opinion and Social Policy

Changes in farmers’ welfare from land requisition in the process of rapid urbanization

Social Inequality In The Views Of Different Generations

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