Welfare Attitudes and Social Expenditure: Do Regimes Shape Public Opinion?

Jakobsen, Tor Georg

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“…It is well known that social contexts, such as welfare regimes and social policies, are associated with attitudes towards redistribution (Andreß & Heien, ; Jakobsen, ; Jæger, ; Svallfors, ). The following section discusses the social contexts of mainland China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, focusing on economic and social inequality and welfare state characteristics.…”

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Perceptions of inequality and attitudes towards redistribution in four East Asian welfare states

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This study examined the effects of perceived economic inequality and inequality of opportunity on individual preferences for redistributive policies among people in mainland China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Using data from the 2009 International Social Survey Program, a series of regression analyses were performed. Results of the analyses indicate that perceived economic inequality is the most significant predictive factor of attitudes towards redistribution in all four states. Perceived inequality of opportunity was positively associated with favourable attitudes towards redistribution in mainland China and South Korea. Perceived socioeconomic status was not found to have a significant effect on attitudes towards redistribution in South Korea.

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“…The concept of the welfare regime is made of 'formalized social policy arrangements, a shared history of class mobilization, institutionalized solidarity, and social justice beliefs' (Jakobsen, 2011: 329) and it defines who deserves to be helped and under what circumstances (Larsen, 2006). According to Jakobsen (2011), solidarity principles reflect value systems that are deeply rooted in history and tradition because there is an interplay between welfare state institutions and people's basic set of values. Each welfare model follows a distinctive path and attitudes toward particular policies can only be understood within their cultural context.…”

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Public opinion and the reform of the pension systems in Europe: the influence of solidarity principles

Castillo

2013

Journal of European Social Policy

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The demographic changes that have occurred in European countries in recent decades have made the policies of the public pension system one of the most debated issues of the welfare state. In this paper, I focus on preferences for three pension policy reforms with different distributive consequences: raising contributions, raising the age of retirement, and allowing free choice between public and private pension plans. I use multilevel models to analyse how individual attachment to different solidarity principles (universalistic, conservative, liberal and familistic) affects attitudes toward pension system reforms while controlling for institutional factors. The empirical results strongly support the hypothesis that solidarity principles have a significant influence on individual preferences. I find that individuals who adhere to universalistic or conservative principles are more in favour of increasing contributions in order to maintain the level of pensions, whereas they oppose a postponement of retirement age. In contrast, those who adhere to liberal or familistic principles are against increasing contributions and prefer extending retirement age. The findings at least partially support the 'regime hypothesis', as a more generous pension system appears to increase support for raising contributions while decreasing support for a raise in the age of retirement.

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“…This result is not surprising since leftists attitudes are intrinsically linked with opinions that are pro collectivism and favourable of state responsibility and equality of incomes. Rightist stances, instead, go along with individualistic values and adversion towards government intervention (Jakobsen, 2011). Therefore, especially in case of political views we can incur in potential endogeneity problems.…”

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Hierarchical Modelling of Disparities in Preferences for Redistribution*

2012

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We evaluate the magnitude of the disparities in the demand for redistribution across European countries and American states during the 2000s. Modelling the demand for redistribution in a multilevel framework, we identify the determinants that contribute the most in predicting support for redistribution. We observe that individual characteristics and contextual variables are associated with demand for redistribution in the same way in Europe and in the US, whereas others exert different influences on the probability of supporting redistribution. We find important differences from some well‐established evidence obtained from data collected for the 1980s and the 1990s.

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Welfare Attitudes and Social Expenditure: Do Regimes Shape Public Opinion?

Abstract: Public opinion, Welfare state, Social expenditure, Esping-Andersen,

Cited by 52 publications

References 38 publications

Perceptions of inequality and attitudes towards redistribution in four East Asian welfare states

Perceptions of inequality and attitudes towards redistribution in four East Asian welfare states

Public opinion and the reform of the pension systems in Europe: the influence of solidarity principles

Hierarchical Modelling of Disparities in Preferences for Redistribution*

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