Worlds of welfare, worlds of consent? : public opinion on the welfare state / by John Gelissen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelissen, John.

Series:

International comparative social studies ; v. 4.

International comparative social studies ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--Public opinion--Cross-cultural studies.

Welfare state.

Social policy--Public opinion--Cross-cultural studies.

Social policy.

Public welfare--Public opinion--Cross-cultural studies.

Public welfare.

Public welfare--Public opinion.

Social policy--Public opinion.

Welfare state--Public opinion.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

241 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2002]

Contents:

1.1 Research questions 3

Worlds of welfare capitalism 5

Popular support for the welfare state 7

Notions of solidarity and choices of justice principles 9

Public support for health care systems 11

Responsibility for old-age pensions 12

1.2 Data 14

International Social Survey Program 14

Eurobarometer survey series 15

European Values Study 16

1.3 Scope and limitations of this study 16

Cross-national comparability of attitudes 17

Selection of countries for analysis 18

Contextual-effects models and the small N problem 19

1.4 Outline of the book 21

2 Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or More? In Search of Ideal Types and Real Forms 25

2.1 Ideal types 26

2.2 Three worlds of welfare capitalism 29

Or more? 32

Mediterranean welfare states 37

Antipodean welfare states 39

East-Asian welfare states 41

Familialism and late female mobilization 42

2.3 Ideal and real types 44

2.4 Empirical robustness of the three-way-classification 49

3 Popular Support for Institutionalized Solidarity: A Comparison between European Welfare States 57

3.1 Theories and findings about welfare state support 59

Dimensions and levels of attitudes towards the welfare state 59

Motives to support the welfare state 62

Social position and support for the welfare state 64

Welfare state regimes and support for the welfare state 66

Other contextual features and support for the welfare state 67

3.2 Hypotheses 67

3.3 Data, operationalization and method 71

Data 71

Operationalization 71

3.4 Results 79

4 Welfare States, Solidarity and Justice Principles: Does the Type really matter? 89

4.1 Research questions 90

4.2 Conceptual framework 92

4.3 Differences in solidarity and justice between welfare states regimes 94

4.4 Models and hypotheses 99

Distributive justice and solidarity: a causal model 99

Distributive justice and solidarity: additional hypotheses 102

4.5 Data, operationalization and method 105

Data 105

Operationalization 107

4.6 Results 112

5 Public Health Care in the Balance: Exploring Popular Support for Health Care Systems in the European Union 125

5.1 Solidarity and its motivational bases 127

5.2 Reasons for welfare state support 129

Welfare state regimes 129

Institutional characteristics of the national care system 132

Individual, social and ideological position 137

5.3 Hypotheses 138

5.4 Data, operationalization and method 144

Data 144

Operationalization 144

5.5 Results 151

Attitudes towards public health care 151

Explaining differences in attitudes towards public health care 154

6 Old-Age Pensions: Individual or Collective Responsibility? An Investigation of Public Opinion within European Welfare States 163

6.1 Welfare state regimes and public opinion on pensions 165

6.2 Social position and opinions about old-age provisions 170

6.3 Data, operationalization and method 172

Data 172

Operationalization 173

6.4 Results 177

7.1 Answers to the research questions 194

Worlds of welfare capitalism 194

Popular support for the welfare state 195

Notions of solidarity and choices of justice principles 197

Public support for health care systems 199

Responsibility for old-age pensions 200

Scientific relevance 206

Societal relevance 210

Some shortcomings and prospects for future research 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004124578

OCLC:

50132278