Welfare Regimes and Welfare Opinions: A Comparison of Eight Western Countries

Svallfors, Stefan

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“…Demographic factors are also called interest-based factors because older people are interested in preserving the existing level and quality of public services to secure their own well-being as they are, or will be, in retirement. Similarly citizens with a lower social status (education, income, and occupation) supposedly do not support privatized services as much as citizens with a higher social status [Svallfors 2003]. …”

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“…However the system of public service delivery needs to be accepted by the citizens. Thus attitudes towards the welfare model and state responsibility have been a topic of research studies for many years [Svallfors 1997[Svallfors , 2003Gelissen 2002;Larsen 2008;Pfeifer 2009;Ervasti 2012]. The idea of a Nordic welfare model is broadly shared amongst the Finnish people and the model has enjoyed popularity despite the recent economic challenges and the ongoing retrenchment debate.…”

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Who supports privately provided public services? - An analysis of finnish citizens'attitudes toward public service marketization

Toikko

2016

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This study examines Finnish citizens' attitudes toward public service marketization. Traditionally the public sector has dominated the market of public services, such as education, healthcare and social care. Since the mid-1990s, the market of public services has been diversified thus allowing the third and private sector more avenues to provide services. However Finnish citizens have held a reserved attitude toward privately provided services. Support for public service marketization has decreased at the same time that the role of the private sector has increased. In this regard this study explores which factors (demographic, practical, or ideological) predict positive attitudes towards public service marketization, based on a survey of 1,135 respondents. The main results of the study indicate that ideological factors predict the respondents' positive attitude towards marketization. I Ideological factors especially choice (OR = 2.052***) and inequality (OR = 1.555***) had key roles in supporting marketization. Demographic factors had the most significant influence: the older the respondents, the more they have reservations about marketization. Practical justifications (such as high taxes) were not associated with positive attitudes towards marketization. Supporting marketization is an ideological issue which is not necessarily justified by demographic and practical factors, although the practical justifications are the most commonly presented in the media when quoting politicians and top officials.

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Who supports privately provided public services? - An analysis of finnish citizens'attitudes toward public service marketization

Toikko

2016

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“…A final line of inquiry stemming from Esping-Anderson's work locates welfare regimes within a nexus of comparative attitude research (see for example Bean & Papadakis, 1998;Jaeger, 2006;Svallfors, 2003). These works claim that attitudes towards social policies play an important role in policy formation and implementation, and thus, a comparison of attitudes across various models adds to our understanding of the dynamic of the welfare regime discourse.…”

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Children, Gender and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States

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“…Grundsätzlich müssen wir nämlich davon ausgehen, dass -insbesondere in Deutschland -der Wohlfahrtsstaat eine breite Zustimmung in der Bevölkerung genießt (vgl. auch Roller 1992Roller , 2000Svallfors 2003;Linos / West 2003;Ullrich 2000). Dabei sprechen sich auch diejenigen für wohlfahrtsstaatliche Maßnahmen aus, die aufgrund ihrer Einkommenssituation relativ geringe Risiken auf dem Arbeitsmarkt haben und für ihre Absicherung selbst sorgen könnten.…”

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Welfare Regimes and Welfare Opinions: A Comparison of Eight Western Countries

Cited by 100 publications

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Who supports privately provided public services? - An analysis of finnish citizens'attitudes toward public service marketization

Who supports privately provided public services? - An analysis of finnish citizens'attitudes toward public service marketization

Children, Gender and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States

Leistungs- oder Bedarfsgerechtigkeit? Über einen normativen Zielkonflikt des Wohlfahrtsstaats und seiner Bedeutung für die Bewertung des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens

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