Towards a globalisation of solidarity?

Fenger, Menno; Paridon, Kees van

doi:10.1332/policypress/9781847427274.003.0004

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“…Yet on the other, political ideology, group identity (Shayo, 2009;Harell et al, 2016), and other-regarding preferences (Feldman and Steenbergen, 2001;Dimmick et al, 2018) play an important role. Concerning the second aspect, scholars have investigated the extent to which solidarity exists beyond the borders of the nationstate (Beckert et al, 2004;Ellison, 2012;Fenger and Van Paridon, 2012). While recent research suggests that Europeans are generally open towards a Europeanized welfare state (Gerhards et al, 2016), there are good reasons to believe that the borders of the nation-state are also important boundaries of social solidarity.…”

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The national boundaries of solidarity: a survey experiment on solidarity with unemployed people in the European Union

Kuhn

Kamm

2019

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Amidst the European sovereign debt crisis and soaring unemployment levels across the European Union, ambitions for European unemployment policies are high on the political agenda. However, it remains unclear what European taxpayers think about these plans and who is most supportive of European unemployment policies. To contribute to this debate, we conducted a survey experiment concerning solidarity towards European and domestic unemployed individuals in the Netherlands and Spain. Our results suggest that (1) Europeans are less inclined to show solidarity towards unemployed Europeans than towards unemployed co-nationals, (2) individuals with higher education, European attachment, and pro-immigration attitudes show more solidarity towards unemployed people from other European countries, but (3) even they discriminate against foreigners, and (4) finally, economic left-right orientations do not structure solidarity with unemployed people from abroad.

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