Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare

Edited by Wim van Oorschot, Professor of Social Policy, University of Leuven, Belgium, Femke Roosma, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Bart Meuleman, Professor of Sociology, University of Leuven, Belgium and Tim Reeskens, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

'Deservingness considerations are central to the moral economy of welfare state arrangements. This book, written by a distinguished group of authors, offers a comprehensive, inspiring and highly innovative account of the logic and the drivers of deservingness attitudes. The authors succeed in putting the question ''Who should get what, and why'' in perspective and show the pivotal role of deservingness opinion therein. For sure, the book will become a key reference in the wider field of comparative welfare state research.'--Steffen Mau, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

• Contents:PART I INTRODUCTION1. The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare and Welfare Deservingness Wim van Oorschot and Femke RoosmaPART II POPULAR RANKING AND WEIGHING OF DESERVINGNESS2. A Universal Rank Order of Deservingness? Geographical, Temporal and Social-Structural Comparisons Tijs Laenen and Bart Meuleman3. The Relative Importance of Welfare Deservingness CriteriaTim Reeskens and Tom van der MeerPART III THE COGNITIVE BASIS OF POPULAR DESERVINGNESS OPINIONS4. False Beliefs and the Perceived Deservingness of Social Security Benefit Claimants Ben Baumberg Geiger5. Negative Attitudes towards Welfare Claimants: The Importance of Unconscious Bias Robert de VriesPART IV MEDIA FRAMES OF (UN)DESERVINGNESS6. Are Visual Depictions of Poverty in the US Gendered and Racialized?Bas van Doorn and Angela Bos7. The Varying Faces of Poverty and Deservingness in Dutch Print Media Dorota LepiankaPART V THE NATIONAL CONTEXT OF DESERVINGNESS OPINIONS8. How Welfare Reforms Influence Public Opinion Regarding Welfare Deservingness: Evidence from Dutch Time-Series Data, 1975–2006 Wilfred Uunk and Wim van Oorschot9. Making Deservingness of the Unemployed Conditional: Changes in Public Support for the Conditionality of Unemployment Benefits Christopher Buß, Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Elias NaumannPART VI OBLIGATIONS OF BENEFIT CLAIMANTS10. The Deservingness Logic Applied to Public Opinions Concerning Work Obligations for Benefit Claimants Femke Roosma and Marjolein JeenePART VII DESERVINGNESS OPINIONS AMONG BUREAUCRATS AND POLICYMAKERS11. Social Assistance Deservingness and Policy Measures: Attitudes of Finnish Politicians, Administrators and Citizens Helena Blomberg, Johanna Kallio, Olli Kangas, Christian Kroll and Mikko Niemelä12. Deservingness in Social Assistance Administrative Practice: A Factorial Survey ApproachMarjolijn De Wilde13. Healthcare Deservingness Opinions of the General Public and Policymakers Compared: A Discrete Choice ExperimentMaartje van der Aa, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Aggie Paulus and Silvia EversPART VIII DESERVINGNESS OF MIGRANTS14. Us versus Them: Examining the Perceived Deservingness of Minority Groups in the British Welfare State Using a Survey Experiment Anouk Kootstra15. Leap of Faith or Judgment of Deservingness? Generalized Trust, Trust in Immigrants and Support for the Welfare State Staffan Kumlin, Dag Wollebæk, Audun Fladmoe and Kari Steen-JohnsenPART IX DESERVINGNESS OF THE RICH16. They’re not Worthy: The Perceived Deservingness of the Rich and its Connection to Policy Preferences Meredith Sadin17. Do the Rich Deserve a Tax Cut? Public Images, Deservingness Criteria and Americans’ Tax Policy Preferences Jordan RagusaPART X CONCLUSIONS18. Evaluating the Fruitfulness of Deservingness Theory Bart Meuleman, Femke Roosma and Wim van OorschotIndex