World of Welfare, World of Consent? (International Comparative Social Studies): Public Opinion on the Welfare State: 4 - Hardcover

Gelissen PH.D., John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004124578 ISBN 13: 9789004124578

Publisher: Brill, 2002

Synopsis

Worlds of Welfare, worlds of Consent? Are the forces of habit and democratic decision-making so strong that outcomes are judged as legitimate whatever the outcomes are? Or is the relationship between the real worlds of welfare capitalism and public opinion more complex? This study examines whether the public's consent to welfare state solidarity and its choices of justice principles are related to the specifics of welfare state regimes, as initially conceived by Goesta Esping-Andersen (1990) and, later, extended and amended by his critics. This is done by using opinion and attitude data from several large-scale survey projects which cover the early to mid-1990's. In the book, people's opinions concerning government intervention in social protection and their beliefs about social justice are compared across a wide variety of welfare states.

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Synopsis:

Are the forces of habit and democratic decision-making so strong that outcomes are judged as legitimate whatever the outcomes are? Or is the relationship between the real worlds of welfare capitalism and public opinion more complex? This study examines whether the public's consent to welfare state solidarity and its choices of justice principles are related to the specifics of welfare state regimes, as initially conceived by Goesta Esping-Andersen (1990) and, later, extended and amended by his critics. This is done by using opinion and attitude data from several large-scale survey projects which cover the early to mid-1990s. In the work, people's opinions concerning government intervention in social protection and their beliefs about social justice are compared across a wide variety of welfare states.

About the Author:

John Gelissen, Ph.D. (2001) in Sociology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, is a Postdoctorate Research Fellow at the Department of sociology at Tilburg University and Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published extensively on the relationship between welfare state arrangements and public opinion, including Old-age pensions: individual or collective responsibility? (Gelissen, 2001).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9004124578
• ISBN 13: 9789004124578
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256