How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public

Policy Feedback, Participation, Voting, and Attitudes

AvStaffan Kumlin,Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

In democracies, the attitudes and behaviour of citizens should influence future public policies. Yet in some instances the reverse of this is true, and public attitudes and behaviour are in fact the result of past policies. Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen bring together political scientists and sociologists from different and frequently separated research communities to examine policy feedback in European welfare states. In doing so, they offer a rich menu of methodological approaches. The book demonstrates how long-term policy legacies and short-term policy changes affect the public, but also shows that such processes are contingent on individual characteristics and political context.This comprehensive study will appeal to academics interested in political behaviour and attitudes, or in welfare state policy and its consequences for national societies and economies. It will also be of value to policy intellectuals and activists involved in the politics of the welfare state.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-01-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Globalization and Welfare series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781782545484

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Edited by Staffan Kumlin, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics, University of Berne, Switzerland

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‘Welfare states do indeed shape the democratic public, but they do it in highly contingent and contextually dependent ways. This is the main message from this meticulously researched and lucidly presented volume. By showing how and under what conditions policy feedback takes place it makes a major contribution to the welfare state literature. A must-read for any scholar in the field.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:PART I: INTRODUCTION1. Citizens, Policy Feedback, and European Welfare StatesStaffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen PART II: PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT2. Empowering Cuts? Austerity Policies and Political Involvement in SpainJordi Muñoz, Eva Anduiza and Guillem Rico3. How Welfare States Shape Participatory PatternsJennifer Shore4. Varieties of Capitalism, Education and Inequalities in Political ParticipationMarius Busemeyer and Achim GoerresPART III: VOTING BEHAVIOUR AND ELECTIONS5. Structuring the Vote: Welfare Institutions and Value Based Vote ChoicesJane Gingrich6. Labour Market Policies and Party Preferences of Fixed-term WorkersPaul Marx and Georg Picot7. The Electoral Consequences of Reforming a Bismarckian Welfare StateChristoph Arndt8. Waking up the Giant? Hospital Closures and Electoral Punishment in SwedenAnders Lindbom PART IV: ATTITUDES AND EVALUATIONS9. Policy Feedback in Political Context: Unemployment Benefits, Elections Campaigns, and Democratic SatisfactionStaffan Kumlin10. Social Policy, Legitimation and Diverging Regional Paths in BelgiumClaire Dupuy and Virginie van Ingelgom11. Raising the Retirement Age: Retrenchment, Feedback and AttitudesElias Naumann12. Popular Deservingness of the Unemployed in the Context of Welfare State Policies, Economic Conditions and Cultural ClimateWim van Oorschot and Bart Meuleman13. How Proximate and Visible Policies Shape Self-interest, Satisfaction and Spending Support: The Case of Public Service ProductionTroels Fage Hedegaard and Christian Albrekt Larsen14. Informed Performance Evaluation of the Welfare State? Experimental and Real-world FindingsStaffan Kumlin PART V: CONCLUSIONS15. How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Borrowing Strength across Research CommunitiesStaffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen