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How does the welfare state model influence social political attitudes? An analysis of citizens' concrete and abstract attitudes toward poverty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2020
Abstract
This study examines the relationship between the welfare state models and social political attitudes. The data are based on the sixth round of the European Social Survey. The study revealed a mechanism of how the relationship between concrete and abstract attitudes differs between the welfare states. In the Anglo-Saxon and Nordic welfare states the relationship is a positive one, which indicates that the welfare state has a broad support among citizens. In the Continental, Eastern and Southern welfare states the relationship is a negative one. This means that the less satisfied citizens are with governmental measures, the more positive their attitudes are regarding protecting citizens against poverty. Also the study showed that the welfare state model directly influences citizens’ concrete attitudes and indirectly influences abstract poverty attitudes. In this sense, the welfare state model is seen more as an attitudinal perception than an actual social policy.
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- Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , October 2017 , pp. 201 - 224
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- Copyright © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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