Partisan Differences in Spending Preferences after theNew Democrat and New Labour Transformations of Party Images

Lowery, David; Jong, Marsha de

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“…This allows us to classify respondents into six mutually exclusive categories, several of which correspond with our experimental conditions 21 . The GSS unemployment benefits question has been analyzed in several other studies of social insurance (Howard 2008; Scheve and Stasavage 2008; Lowery et al 2013).…”

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Dependency Status and Demand for Social Insurance: Evidence from Experiments and Surveys

Ahlquist

Hamman²,

Jones

2015

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Current thinking on the origins and size of the welfare state often ignores household relations in which people may depend on others for income or have dependents themselves. The influence of "dependency status" on individuals' political preferences is unknown. We report results from a laboratory experiment designed to estimate the effect of dependency on preferences for policies that insure against labor market risk. Results indicate that 1) willingness to vote in favor of a social insurance policy is highly responsive to unemployment risk, 2) symmetric, mutual dependence is unrelated to support for insurance, but 3) asymmetric dependence (being dependent on someone else) increases support for social insurance. We connect our lab results to observational survey data and find similar relationships.For over a decade now our thinking on the political economy of the welfare state has focused on labor market risks and social insurance policy (Hall and Soskice, 2001;Iversen and Soskice, 2001; Wallerstein, 2001, 2003). Citizens' preferences over various social insurance policies (unemployment, disability, retirement, etc.) are held to be a function of the

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Section: Evidence From Survey Datamentioning

confidence: 99%