Election campaigns and welfare state change : democratic linkage and leadership under pressure / Staffan Kumlin, Achim Goerres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kumlin, Staffan, author.

Goerres, Achim, 1977- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--Europe--History.

Welfare state.

Welfare state--Public opinion.

Political campaigns--Europe.

Political campaigns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

'Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change' examines how political leaders and the public respond to reform pressures at a pivotal moment in a mass democracy: the election campaign.

Contents:

cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Preface and Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

I RESEARCH PROBLEMS AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

1 Introduction: Democracy and Welfare State Change

2 Democratic Linkage and the Party Decline Debate

3 Democratic Leadership and the Changing Study of Changing Welfare States

II CAMPAIGN CONTENTS

4 Up and Down with the Welfare State: Systemic Agenda Shifts in Europe

5 What Politicians (Don't) Tell You about Welfare State Change

III PUBLIC RESPONSES

6 What Makes People Worry about the Welfare State?

7 Who Persuades and Who Responds?

8 Do People Adjust Policy Preferences to Reform Pressures?

IV CONCLUSIONS

9 Democracy and Welfare State Change Revisited

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 6, 2022).

ISBN:

0-19-190571-2

0-19-264027-5

0-19-264026-7

9780192640277