Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Bringing together contributions from a diverse range of international scholars, A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare draws upon past and contemporary research methods used to study citizens’ attitudes to welfare. It highlights the rapidly growing research potential within the field, examining both new and understudied social policies to map out a comprehensive agenda for future research. This essential Research Agenda offers crucial suggestions to broaden the scope of research in the field and expand our knowledge of public attitudes to welfare. Chapters examine support for new social welfare policies such as active labour market policies, Universal Basic Income, and Social Europe, as well as investigating support among understudied subgroups in the population and over the life course. It ultimately emphasizes the importance of applying different analytical and methodological perspectives in order to understand public attitudes to welfare more thoroughly. Employing a diverse range of data and methods, this informative Research Agenda will benefit scholars of sociology, social policy, political science, and economics seeking to gain insight on public attitudes to welfare and welfare states. It will also be useful to social policy professionals and officials endeavouring to reflect on the progress of research within the field.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-09-19
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieElgar Research Agendas
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781800887404

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Contents:1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for PublicAttitudes to Welfare 1Femke Roosma and Tijs Laenen2 Labour market policy preferences in the contextof migration 25Dominique Oehrli and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen3 From national welfare states to Social Europe:welfare attitudes in the context of European integration 55Sharon Baute4 New directions in research on public support foruniversal basic income 83Marie-Laure Mulayi, Tijs Laenen, Wim VanLancker and Bart Meuleman5 Political awareness and the structure of supportfor the welfare state 105Jason Jordan6 Just institutions for those most in need?Quantitative and qualitative bottom-upperspectives on the perceived legitimacy ofa social assistance reform: a focus on food aidrecipients in Finland 123Helena Blomberg and Christian Kroll7 Varieties of welfare populism; radical right votersbetween chauvinism and producerism 143Thierry Kochuyt, Koen Abts and Femke Roosma8 Support for the welfare state over the lifecourse: analysing individual attitude change withmultiwave panel data 163Elias Nauman9 Institutional trajectories of the welfare state:returns from social policy inception to modernpublic opinion 187Nate Breznau10 Context as a part of our cases: the potential ofqualitative work in welfare attitudes research 209Katharina Zimmermann11 Conclusion: welfare attitudes research ascathedral under permanent construction 231Tijs Laenen and Femke RoosmaIndex

‘The book reveals the ideas, methods and aspirations of talented scholars seeking to understand public attitudes towards the welfare state. In their words, building on an unfinished La Sagrada Familia cathedral. In my opinion, the major strength of the book is the non-findings. How losing a job doesn’t matter. How the inflow of migrants doesn’t matter. How early institutions don’t matter. Such knowledge is seldom found in journal articles. The book is also filled with good ideas about better construction methods. Illustrated in a trial-and-error fashion. The use of panel data. The mix of qualitative and quantitative methods. The sensitivity to context. These ideas and suggestions are crucial for anyone wanting to contribute to this scholarly field. The book leaves me with a small puzzle, though. Why do we want to build a cathedral?’