Predictors of Support for State Social Welfare Provision in Russia and China

Munro, Neil

doi:10.1080/09668136.2016.1265643

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“…Likewise, subjective experiences of poverty, including feelings of relative deprivation (e.g., Kreidl, 2000) and direct exposure to poverty in one's surroundings (e.g., Hopkins, 2009), have been shown to affect people's thinking about social inequality and their welfare attitudes. Going one step further, research has stressed the importance of normative orientations which are only dimly related to self-interestincluding inequality aversion (e.g., Munro, 2017), personal and political values (e.g., Arikan & Bloom, 2015), ideology (e.g., Jaeger, 2008), or perceptions of the deservingness of the poor (e.g., van Oorschot, 2006).…”

Section: Welfare Policy Preferencesmentioning

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When Explanations for Poverty Help Explain Social Policy Preferences: The Case of European Public Opinion Amidst the Economic Recession (2009–2014)

Marquis

Rosset

2021

Soc Just Res

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Individuals hold beliefs about what causes poverty, and those beliefs have been theorized to explain policy preferences and ultimately cross-country variations in welfare states. However, there has been little empirical work on the effects of poverty attributions on welfare state attitudes. We seek to fill this gap by making use of Eurobarometer data from 27 European countries in the years 2009, 2010 and 2014 to explore the effects of poverty attributions on judgments about economic inequality as well as preferences regarding the welfare state. Relying on a four-type typology of poverty attribution which includes individual fate, individual blame, social fate and social blame as potential explanations for poverty, our analyses show that these poverty attributions are associated with judgments about inequality and broadly defined support for the welfare state, but have little or no effect on more concrete policy proposals such as unemployment benefits or increase of social welfare at the expense of higher taxes.

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Section: Welfare Policy Preferencesmentioning

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When Explanations for Poverty Help Explain Social Policy Preferences: The Case of European Public Opinion Amidst the Economic Recession (2009–2014)

Marquis

Rosset

2021

Soc Just Res

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“…Central Asian Republics and Russia have instead been attached to the old communist welfare legacy based on clientelism and a strong presence of the state in healthcare and education sectors. Similarly, other scholars contend that the support for state welfare provision in countries such as Russia and Kazakhstan does not depend on social pressures and citizens' wellbeing, as in the Baltic states, but social policy decisions reflect the autocrat's self-interest and economic gains (Clavero, 2015; Munro, 2017).…”

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Determinants of health and education equality: evidence from post-Soviet states

Panaro

2021

IJSSP

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PurposeThis article examines the determinants of social equality in the education and healthcare sectors in the 15 post-Soviet states. Focussing on regime type and civil society organisations (CSOs), it argues that countries where liberal principles of democracy are achieved or have a stronger civil society deliver a more equitable social policy.Design/methodology/approachThe empirical analysis rests upon a time-series cross-sectional (TSCS) analysis from 1992 to 2019. Data are collected from the Quality of Government (QoG) Dataset 2020 and the Variates of Democracy (V-DEM) Dataset 2020.FindingsThe findings demonstrate that while regime type only partially accounts for social equality, as electoral autocracies do not have more equitable social policy than close regime types and democracy weakly explains equality levels, the strength of CSOs is associated with more equality.Originality/valueThe article challenges dominant approaches that consider electoral democracy to be related to more equal social policy and demonstrates that de-facto free and fair elections do not impinge on social equality, while the strength of liberal and civil liberties and CSOs correlate with more equitable social policy.

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“…Research on welfare attitudes in China has shown that perceptions of individual rights and personal social cognition are important drivers of welfare attitudes (He et al, 2020; Wu & Chou, 2017; Yang et al, 2019). Furthermore, Munro (2017) found that inequality aversion was the strongest and most important predictor of support for state provision of social welfare in China, concluding that ideology mattered most.…”

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Changing attitudes towards government responsibility for social welfare in China between 2004 and 2014: Evidence from three national surveys

Dalen

2021

Int J Soc Welfare

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Social policies in China have expanded rapidly since the early 2000s, broadening welfare provisions aiming to improve citizens' well-being in a context of rapid development and increasing inequality. How people see the role of the government in the provision of welfare is important to policy-making in an authoritarian state, such as China, because regime legitimacy is tied to evaluations of government performance. To what extent have welfare attitudes changed as a new Chinese social security system has emerged? Drawing on nationally representative datasets from the China Inequality and Distributive Justice Survey Project for 2004, 2009 and 2014, this study finds that support for government provision of welfare has increased substantially within all population groups since 2004.Furthermore, traditional social cleavages, such as the urban-rural divide, seem to lose strength as a predictor of redistributive preference, possibly 'deactivating' these social cleavages as vehicles of political mobilisation.

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Predictors of Support for State Social Welfare Provision in Russia and China

Cited by 7 publications

References 37 publications

When Explanations for Poverty Help Explain Social Policy Preferences: The Case of European Public Opinion Amidst the Economic Recession (2009–2014)

When Explanations for Poverty Help Explain Social Policy Preferences: The Case of European Public Opinion Amidst the Economic Recession (2009–2014)

Determinants of health and education equality: evidence from post-Soviet states

Changing attitudes towards government responsibility for social welfare in China between 2004 and 2014: Evidence from three national surveys

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