A Loud but Noisy Signal?

Busemeyer, Marius R.; Garritzmann, Julian L.; Neimanns, Erik

doi:10.1017/9781108777896

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“…The cultural constraint does not have an independent causal effect, but it structures how other factors influence welfare regime development (see Figure 1). This is similar to how public opinion structures the effect of political parties (Busemeyer, Garritzmann and Neimanns 2020). Thus, we suggest an ‘effects-of-causes’ rather than a ‘causes-of-effects’ approach by stressing the relevance of a factor without claiming that it fully explains the outcome (Mahoney and Goerz 2006).…”

Section: Model Of Cultural Worksupporting

confidence: 64%

What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

Martin

Chevalier

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Why did historical anti-poverty programs in Britain, Denmark and France differ so dramatically in their goals, beneficiaries and agents for addressing poverty? Different cultural views of poverty contributed to how policy makers envisioned anti-poverty reforms. Danish elites articulated social investments in peasants as necessary to economic growth, political stability and societal strength. British elites viewed the lower classes as a challenge to these goals. The French perceived the poor as an opportunity for Christian charity. Fiction writers are overlooked political agents who engage in policy struggles. Collectively, writers contribute to a country's distinctive ‘cultural constraint’, or symbols and narratives, which appears in the national-level aggregation of literature. To assess cross-national variations in cultural depictions of poverty, this article uses historical case studies and quantitative textual analyses of 562 British, 521 Danish and 498 French fictional works from 1770 to 1920.

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Section: Model Of Cultural Worksupporting

confidence: 64%

What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

Martin

Chevalier

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…(See Figure 1.) This is similar to how public opinion structures the effect of political parties [Busemeyer, Garritzmann and Neimanns 2020]. Thus, we suggest an "effects-ofcauses" rather than a "causes-of-effects" approach, by stressing the relevance of a factor without claiming that it fully explains the outcome [Martin and Chevalier 2021;Mahoney and Goertz 2006].…”

Section: A Cultural Model Of Influence On Industrial Relationsmentioning

confidence: 69%

Cultural Images of Labor Conflict and Coordination: Literature and the Evolution of Industrial Relations Systems

Martin¹,

Nijhuis²,

Olsson³

2021

Arch. eur. sociol.

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Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have different historical patterns of industrialization, but developed similar patterns of industrial coordination and cooperation. Theories accounting for industrial relations systems (economic structure, power resources, and party/electoral systems) have difficulty accounting for the similarities among these cases. Therefore, we explore the historical depictions of labor appearing in literature to evaluate whether cross-national distinctions in cultural conceptions of labor have some correspondence to distinctions between coordinated and liberal industrial relations systems. We hypothesize that historical literary depictions of labor are associated with the evolution of industrial systems, and apply computational text analyses to large corpora of literary texts. We find that countries (Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands) with coordinated, corporatist industrial relations in the 20th century share similar cultural constructions about labor relations dating back to at least 1770. Literary depictions found in modern coordinated/corporatist countries are significantly different from those found in Britain, a country with liberal/pluralist industrial relations systems. The research has significance for our understanding of the role of culture in the evolution of modern political economies.

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“…First, I posit that party family-specific ideological views regarding such issues as welfare deservingness (merit, need or citizenship), efficiency, equity, the state versus market role in higher education and transition to adulthood have a bearing on its preferences and actions regarding SFP. The idea that parties and their constituencies hold significantly different views on higher education finds support in the literature (Ansell, 2010; Busemeyer et al, 2020; Garritzmann, 2016; see Jakobi, 2011), Unfortunately, the limited coverage of student funding issues, and geographical and time scope of the available data preclude their direct use in this study. Hence, I have deduced partisan positions regarding SFP on the basis of the works cited above and other relevant literature (Busemeyer, 2014; Huber et al, 1993; Jensen, 2014; Kalyvas and van Kersbergen, 2010).…”

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 92%

Political party families and student social rights

Czarnecki

2022

Journal of European Social Policy

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The article conceptualizes student funding systems in order to investigate their ideological and political underpinnings. Using different long-term measures of cumulative power of four-party families and their combinations, and the newly created Student Support and Fees Dataset, it shows that the variety of student social rights in 32 high-income democracies in 2015 can be linked to past partisan politics. Decommodification, understood as making higher education study unconditional on labour income of students and their families, was positively associated with the rule of pro-welfare parties and negatively with the rule of Conservative parties, in the preceding two decades. Individualization, that is the state support for student transition to independent adulthood, was positively associated with the rule of left-wing parties. This, however, applies only to their long-term impact in older democracies and is to a large extent conditional on a country’s wealth. Third, social rights distribution characterized by a low degree of targeting and large recipiency rate was similarly related to the Left rule, while the Conservatives ruling in the last two decades contributed to increasing inequalities in student social rights.

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A Loud but Noisy Signal?

Cited by 65 publications

References 298 publications

What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

Cultural Images of Labor Conflict and Coordination: Literature and the Evolution of Industrial Relations Systems

Political party families and student social rights

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