Who benefits? Welfare chauvinism and national stereotypes

Hjorth, Frederik

doi:10.1177/1465116515607371

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“…A large literature on welfare attitudes shows that many people view non‐natives as less deserving of benefits than natives (van Oorschot ; van der Waal et al . , ; Cappelen and Midtbø ; Hjorth ). The influx of immigrants has thus made welfare states in Europe and elsewhere vulnerable to welfare chauvinistic arguments.…”

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“…Cappelen and Midtbø (), for instance, find strong welfare chauvinism in a sample of Norwegian respondents. Similarly, Hjorth () demonstrates that Swedish voters display lower support for cross‐border welfare rights for culturally distant migrants (Bulgarians) than for culturally similar ones (Dutch). Kootstra () reports that ethnic minorities in the Netherlands and the UK are not viewed as less deserving per se , but that they are punished more severely for displaying ‘unfavourable’ characteristics along other dimensions.…”

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Welfare Chauvinism in Populist Radical Right Platforms: The Role of Redistributive Justice Principles

2017

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Welfare chauvinism has become an important element in the agenda of the populist radical right. This article proposes a novel argument to explain variation in the strength of welfare chauvinist appeals across social policy programmes. It theorizes that the redistributive justice principles (equity, equality, and need) that underpin a social programme matter. Equality-and need-based programmes are more likely to contradict a nativist worldview in principle or practice, whereas equity-based schemes are less vulnerable to welfare chauvinistic appeals. As a consequence, welfare chauvinism should be targeted at social policies that provide universal or means-tested benefits. Insurance-based systems are more likely to be immune. This argument is tested through a qualitative content analysis of populist radical right election manifestos in four West European democracies. The results show that insurance-based systems (pensions, unemployment) are less likely to attract welfare chauvinism, whereas universal healthcare and means-tested social assistance programmes are more prone to draw nativist appeals. Universal family allowances, however, are less likely to attract welfare chauvinism than predicted by the theory.

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Welfare Chauvinism in Populist Radical Right Platforms: The Role of Redistributive Justice Principles

2017

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“… 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 ).…”

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

2016

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Refugee and labour immigration have placed the issue of immigrants’ access to welfare benefits high on the political agenda. This article explores how voter preferences for increases in the child benefit change when respondents are reminded about immigrants’ access to benefits. The survey experiment shows that information about newly arrived immigrants’ access to child benefit has only a small impact on support for increasing the child allowance. By contrast, information about labour migrants’ access to benefits for children living in another European Union country has a strong impact, and the observed sensitivity to this cue is not to the same extent confined to respondents who otherwise support welfare dualism.

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“…Social rights in many European nations also reflect immigration status: “generous welfare states that receive a lot of unwanted [humanitarian and family] immigration differentiate social rights in a way that leads to a high poverty gap between immigrants and natives” (Hooijer & Picot, , p. 1881). Social rights in the European Union are “intensely contested” in part because of the principle of freedom of movement by EU citizens (Hjorth, , p. 3). This freedom reflects a broad legal doctrine that has implications for EU social policy: EU citizens are free to establish residency in any member state, suggesting the possibility that people may relocate to take advantage of relatively generous social benefits.…”

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Weathering the Storm: Social Policy and the Great Recession

Maks‐Solomon¹,

Stoker²

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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This review discusses recent challenges to the welfare state arising from the Great Recession (GR). The GR was a significant event for social policy analysts, as it tested the responsiveness of welfare systems in the midst of a recent trend toward austerity politics in advanced economies. Social policy changes were part of the toolkit advanced democracies used to respond to the GR, and the welfare state mitigated the consequences of the GR. However, a stark limitation of the social safety net in the United States was the failure to assist immigrant households. The nexus of immigration and social policy is likely to be a significant controversy as we consider the meaning of social citizenship.

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Who benefits? Welfare chauvinism and national stereotypes

Cited by 72 publications

References 50 publications

Welfare Chauvinism in Populist Radical Right Platforms: The Role of Redistributive Justice Principles

Welfare Chauvinism in Populist Radical Right Platforms: The Role of Redistributive Justice Principles

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

Weathering the Storm: Social Policy and the Great Recession

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