Welfare Dualism in Two Scandinavian Welfare States: Public Opinion and Party Politics

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Three Worlds of Welfare Chauvinism? How Welfare Regimes Affect Support for Distributing Welfare to Immigrants in Europe

“…As Bay and colleagues (2013) demonstrated -in accordance with our findings -this occurred while the level of welfare chauvinism among the public at large hardly differs among those countries. They indicate that electoral competition, as well as agenda setting and mobilization by right-wing populist parties in Denmark, are key to understanding these differences across social-democratic regimes (Bay et al 2013). Future research on the impact of institutions on welfare opinions could gain from this insight: welfare institutions that foster high levels of solidarity can go hand in hand with exclusive policies due to political processes.…”

Welfare Nationalism and Popular Support for Raising the Child Allowance: Evidence from a Norwegian Survey Experiment

“… The term ‘welfare chauvinism’ is widely used in the literature for referring to a general unwillingness to share welfare benefits with immigrants and to a specific preference for a policy of withholding benefits from or lowering benefits to immigrants (Kitchelt ; Van der Waal et al ; Hjort ). We prefer the normatively more neutral terms ‘welfare nationalism’ and ‘welfare dualism’ to refer, respectively, to the general attitudinal disposition and the specific policy preference (see Bay et al ). The term ‘welfare chauvinism’ can be used more narrowly to perceptions about a higher propensity to misuse welfare benefits and weaker work ethics among immigrants that might contribute to motivate welfare nationalism and a preference for welfare dualism.…”

Policing Norwegian Welfare: Disciplining and Differentiating within the Bottom Rungs

“…Low public support for the welfare system reportedly reflects racialized divisions in the U.S. (Larsen, 2013;Schram, Soss, Fording, & Houser, 2009). Public perceptions of welfare deservingness in Norway and Denmark also now reflect support for a dual welfare system (Bay, Finseraas, & Pedersen, 2013). Our article shifts focus to the distinctions taking place within the framing and shaping of activation policies themselves.…”