Recent advances in understanding welfare attitudes in Europe

Oorschot, Wim van; Laenen, Tijs; Roosma, Femke; Meuleman, Bart

doi:10.4337/9781802201710.00021

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“…Studies tend to either focus on ex-ante assessments of social policies (preferred policy objectives and measures) or ex-post assessments (satisfaction with the actual policies). The latter is generally considered to be a subjective measure of welfare state performance (e.g., Van Oorschot et al, 2022). However, depending on data availability, a variety of indications may be used as measurements.…”

Section: Perceptions Of Welfare State Performance and Populist Votingmentioning

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Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties

Saxonberg,

Sirovátka,

Guzi

2024

Social Policy and Society

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In recent decades, populist parties and leaders have obtained great political success. Since populism plays on voter dissatisfaction with the political elite, we might expect that dissatisfaction with the welfare state should also play a role. In this study, we suggest measures to assess welfare state performance (WSP), and we examine how assessment of WSP helps to explain support for the populist political parties – both rightwing and leftwing. Our findings are based on the sixth round of European Social Survey data that has a special module on democracy, which includes questions that enables us to measure WSP. This article shows that WSP is a significant predictor in explaining support for populist parties, but the dynamics differ between how WSP influences support for leftwing populist (LWP) and rightwing populist (RWP) parties.

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Section: Perceptions Of Welfare State Performance and Populist Votingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties

Saxonberg,

Sirovátka,

Guzi

2024

Social Policy and Society

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“…A esto se añade que las preferencias varían sustancialmente de una política a otra, y es lógico suponer que no evolucionarán en el mismo sentido cuando se produce una recesión (Laenen y Van Oorschot, 2020). El apoyo al gasto público es mayoritario en prácticamente todos los programas, tanto en los países de nuestro entorno (Van Oorschot et al, 2022) como en España (Cicuéndez, 2023(Cicuéndez, y 2018Calzada y Del Pino, 2013b), si bien ese respaldo es superior en determinados sectores. Las políticas sociales son las más apreciadas (Neimanns et al, 2018), existiendo prioridades dentro de este grupo (Bremer y Bürgisser, 2022): pensiones, educación y sanidad son muy valoradas, las políticas de familia generan un interés medio, y la importancia de las políticas de empleo fluctúa.…”

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Opinión pública sobre gasto público: una cuestión clave para las estrategias de comunicación política en períodos de crisis económica

Cicuéndez Santamaría

2024

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¿Cambian las preferencias políticas de la opinión pública durante las crisis? ¿En qué sentido? La literatura especializada sugiere que las recesiones influyen en la opinión pública, pero hay poca evidencia empírica de que las preferencias fiscales cambien de forma significativa y perdurable en estas coyunturas. En este artículo se analiza la evolución de las preferencias de gasto público de los españoles en ocho políticas públicas durante la Gran Recesión y durante la pandemia. Para ello, se utilizan datos de encuestas del CIS realizadas entre 2006 y 2023. La investigación también indaga en las narrativas de los gobiernos sobre las medidas adoptadas para hacer frente a las recesiones. Los resultados apuntan a que las crisis afectan a la opinión pública, y que una mayoría apoya el incremento del gasto para las políticas sociales, no así en otras áreas. Estos cambios serían temporales y, superada la situación, se vuelve a las tendencias habituales. Si bien las preferencias son relativamente homogéneas entre los distintos grupos sociales, se aprecian diferencias que se agudizan en épocas de contracción. Las distintas estrategias discursivas gubernamentales no parecen tener una influencia determinante en las preferencias de la opinión pública.

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“…The study of attitudes toward redistribution and equality is well-established in the literature (Van Oorschot et al, 2022), but the influence of subjective social position is still understudied.…”

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“…The ISSP questionnaire contains questions related to attitudes toward redistribution repeated in all latest waves on Social Inequality. We selected three of them, following what is established in the literature on the topic (Van Oorschot et al, 2022). The first dependent variable asks: 'Do you think people with high incomes should pay a larger share of their income in taxes than those with low incomes, the same share, or a smaller share?'.…”

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Where I Stand and What I Stand For. Subjective Social Status and Attitudes Towards Redistribution

Melli¹

2023

Preprint

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The influence of social position on political attitudes is well established in con- temporary literature. We analyze the relevance of the subjective aspects of social stratification in shaping attitudes towards redistribution in thirteen Western Euro- pean countries, Australia, and the USA. We use ISSP data covering twenty years. Results show that individuals with lower subjective position display higher support for redistribution and perception of income inequality. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of the contextual data, we also analyze the role of structural inequalities and their variation. In countries with higher income inequalities, high subjective position individuals show higher support for redistributive policies, which are con- sidered too high. This suggests that individuals who feel they are above the majority of the population, regardless of this high consideration, still perceive material and economic insecurity, and display redistributive attitudes in line with the rest of the population in countries with high inequalities. This has considerable political im- plications, as it illuminates why individuals with high status tend to vote for radical parties in Southern European countries. The results have broader implications, sug- gesting that an approach to social stratification that considers both subjective and objective aspects allows to better clarify support for redistribution.

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Recent advances in understanding welfare attitudes in Europe

Cited by 12 publications

References 49 publications

Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties

Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties

Opinión pública sobre gasto público: una cuestión clave para las estrategias de comunicación política en períodos de crisis económica

Where I Stand and What I Stand For. Subjective Social Status and Attitudes Towards Redistribution

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