Measuring Attitudes Towards Social Europe: A Multidimensional Approach

Baute, Sharon; Meuleman, Bart; Abts, Koenraad; Swyngedouw, Marc

doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1587-3

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“…Studies have addressed a variety of social policy fields, among them pensions (Jaime-Castillo, 2013), poverty (Alesina and Glaeser, 2004;Scheepers and Grotenhuis, 2005) and immigration (Banting and Kymlicka, 2006;Mau and Burkhardt, 2009). More recent studies have expanded the focus onto the European level by analysing public support for redistributive policies within the EU (Mau, 2005;Baute et al, 2018;Gerhards et al, 2018). Evidence suggests that support for redistributive preferences is influenced by the respondents' position in society, e.g., the rational calculations tied to their state of vulnerability (Iversen and Soskice, 2001;Rehm, 2009) but that cognitive and cultural factors also play a role (Mau, 2005).…”

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Solidarity in Europe: a comparative account of citizens’ attitudes and practices

Grasso¹,

Lahusen²

2020

Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe

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Solidarity in Europe: a comparative account of citizens’ attitudes and practices

Grasso¹,

Lahusen²

2020

Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe

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“…By intrusiveness, we understand the degree of interference in the boundaries of solidarity on which the welfare state is based. Accordingly, empirical research shows that citizens differentiate substantially in their attitudes concerning various aspects of Social Europe (Baute et al, 2018). Whether citizens' welfare attitudes facilitate or obstruct support for Social Europe might depend on how a particular policy instrument intervenes in the national welfare state.…”

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User Participation Policies in Norway and England – the Case of Older People and Social Care

Christensen

Pilling

2018

J. Soc. Pol.

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User participation has become one of the most important concepts in the social care sector in many European countries, but the literature has mostly paid attention to disabled people or those with mental health problems. This article compares the user participation policies directed at social care for older people in Norway and England. Using a discourse analytical approach, a selection primarily of White papers from the 1960s until today are analysed. The analysis draws on the literature's discourse discussion, including a democratic/rights based discourse (full citizenship), a consumer discourse (consumers’ rights to choose welfare services), a co-production discourse (users and state/local authorities partnerships), and nuances of these discourses. The analysis shows that, while both countries start with variations of a democratic discourse, Norway develops a temporary and weak consumer discourse in a middle phase, then moves to co-production in current times. England, on the other hand, develops a comprehensive consumer discourse but also a surprisingly strong co-production discourse – the idea of a ‘Big Society’ – in early and current times.

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“…This discrepancy may be based on the reasoning that EU social objectives can be more effectively achieved by means of EU transfers, which can benefit complete regions, whereas cross‐border welfare rights are only advantageous to mobile EU citizens. The differentiation in the explanatory patterns of transnational and member state solidarity indicates that citizens distinguish between various components of Social Europe, confirming previous research (Baute et al ., ).…”

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Public Support for European Solidarity: Between Euroscepticism and EU Agenda Preferences?

Baute

Abts

Meuleman

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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This article investigates public support for two types of EU‐wide solidarity that currently exist, namely member state solidarity (such as transfers to less developed and crisis‐hit countries) and transnational solidarity (such as granting cross‐border social rights to EU citizens). Drawing on data from the 2014 Belgian National Election Study, we find that opposition towards European integration – in particular regarding EU enlargement – reduces citizens' willingness to support European solidarity to a large extent. However, this article reveals that public support for European solidarity cannot simply be reduced to a pro‐versus anti‐integration, nor to a domestic left–right conflict. Citizens' substantive positions towards the EU's social and economic agenda are a crucial element in understanding contestation over European integration issues.

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Measuring Attitudes Towards Social Europe: A Multidimensional Approach

Cited by 30 publications

References 49 publications

Solidarity in Europe: a comparative account of citizens’ attitudes and practices

Solidarity in Europe: a comparative account of citizens’ attitudes and practices

User Participation Policies in Norway and England – the Case of Older People and Social Care

Public Support for European Solidarity: Between Euroscepticism and EU Agenda Preferences?

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