What Drives Support for Higher Public Spending?

Preston, Ian; Hall, John W.; Brook, Lindsay

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-26302-8_5

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“…International research (e.g. Blekesaune, 2007;Brook, Preston and Hall, 1998), however, finds that economic conditions often shape public attitudes towards the welfare state. In New Zealand, analysis does show that more respondents agreed that 'Government should be responsible to ensure a decent standard of living for the unemployed' during the early 1990s as unemployment rates rose.…”

Section: Responsibility For the Unemployed And For Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

What do New Zealanders think about welfare?

Humpage¹

2011

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‘Welfare’ is always a controversial topic, with considerable debate about the causes of need and thus who is responsible for ensuring well-being. In its final report the Welfare Working Group (WWG) (2011) acknowledges this, noting that structural factors, such as the recent recession, shape welfare outcomes alongside individual behaviours and problems within welfare institutions. However, the WWG was established specifically to examine ways to reduce longterm benefit dependency in New Zealand amongst people of working age. Its recommendations thus place a particular focus on the individual behaviours of the unemployed. The proposed introduction of Jobseeker Support, a new single work-focused welfare payment to replace all existing categories of benefit, suggests that the circumstances behind working-age benefit receipt are similar and that it is therefore appropriate to extend new reciprocal obligations to a wider range of benefit recipients.

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Section: Responsibility For the Unemployed And For Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

What do New Zealanders think about welfare?

Humpage¹

2011

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“…The standard view is that several key "ingredients" at the individual level -self-interest, ideology, racial or social group identity, and fundamental social valuescontribute to the public's beliefs and preferences (Kinder and Sanders 1996). The self-interest perspective, which enjoys widespread currency in economics, political science, and psychology, suggests that Americans will support those policies that will help them maximize their short-term individual goals or interests, such as improved financial or health status (see, e.g., Miller and Ratner 1998;Brook, Preston, and Hall 1998;Cnaan et al 1993;d'Anjou, Steijn, and van Aarsen 1995). In fact, political campaigns often center on "pocketbook issues," in an attempt to convince vot- Lynch and Gollust ■ Playing Fair 853 context, usually involve trying to convince middle-class and currently insured Americans that they stand to benefit from health reform because of their vulnerability to rising health care costs or loss of health insurance.)…”

Section: What Drives Public Opinion On Health Policy?mentioning

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Playing Fair: Fairness Beliefs and Health Policy Preferences in the United States

Lynch¹,

Gollust²

2010

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

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Conventional wisdom suggests that the best way to persuade Americans to support changes in health care policy is to appeal to their self-interest - particularly to concerns about their economic and health security. An alternative strategy, framing problems in the health care system to emphasize inequalities, could also, however, mobilize public support for policy change by activating underlying attitudes about the unfairness or injustice of these inequalities. In this article, we draw on original data from a nationally representative survey to describe Americans' beliefs about fairness in the health domain, including their perceptions of the fairness of particular inequalities in health and health care. We then assess the influence of these fairness considerations on opinions about the appropriate role of private actors versus government in providing health insurance. Respondents believe inequalities in access to and quality of health care are more unfair than unequal health outcomes. Even after taking into account self-interest considerations and the other usual suspects driving policy opinions, perceptions of the unfairness of inequalities in health care strongly influence respondents' preferences for government provision of health insurance.

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“…This backs up international findings, which suggest that user-pays and privatisation reduce support for the welfare system because fewer people have contact with it (Brook 1998). This backs up international findings, which suggest that user-pays and privatisation reduce support for the welfare system because fewer people have contact with it (Brook 1998).…”

Section: Social Rights Of Citizenshipmentioning

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Talking about citizenship in New Zealand

Humpage

2008

Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online

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This paper fleshes out the rather sparse empirical literature on citizenship with data collected from seven focus groups involving a wide range of New Zealanders. Results indicate that the term "citizenship" is relatively unimportant to identity and belonging compared to "family" and "community". Yet there is considerable agreement about the key elements of citizenship and what makes a "good citizen". Knowledge about citizenship, however, is not evenly distributed or experienced in the same way by different groups of New Zealanders, with Māori participants offering notably more negative perspectives on citizenship, and benefit recipients most likely to feel like "second-class citizens". Against predictions, the findings further suggest that neo-liberal reforms have not eliminated a belief in community spirit and collective solutions to social problems. Although New Zealanders do believe that individuals should be responsible for themselves, they also expect government to ensure the social and economic conditions that make this possible.

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What Drives Support for Higher Public Spending?

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What do New Zealanders think about welfare?

What do New Zealanders think about welfare?

Playing Fair: Fairness Beliefs and Health Policy Preferences in the United States

Talking about citizenship in New Zealand

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