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Author Gelissen, John.

Title Worlds of welfare, worlds of consent? : public opinion on the welfare state / by John Gelissen.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series International comparative social studies ; v. 4
International comparative social studies ; v. 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Research questions -- Worlds of welfare capitalism -- Popular support for the welfare state -- Notions of solidarity and choices of justice principles -- Public support for health care systems -- Responsibility for old-age pensions -- Data -- International Social Survey Program -- Eurobarometer survey series -- European Values Study -- Scope and limitations of this study -- Cross-national comparability of attitudes -- Selection of countries for analysis -- Contextual-effects models and the small N problem -- Outline of the book -- Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or More? In Search of Ideal Types and Real Forms -- Ideal types -- Three worlds of welfare capitalism -- Or more? -- Mediterranean welfare states -- Antipodean welfare states -- East-Asian welfare states -- Familialism and late female mobilization -- Ideal and real types -- Empirical robustness of the three-way-classification -- Popular Support for Institutionalized Solidarity: A Comparison between European Welfare States -- Theories and findings about welfare state support -- Dimensions and levels of attitudes towards the welfare state -- Motives to support the welfare state -- Social position and support for the welfare state -- Welfare state regimes and support for the welfare state -- Other contextual features and support for the welfare state -- Hypotheses -- Data, operationalization and method -- Data -- Operationalization -- Results -- Welfare States, Solidarity and Justice Principles: Does the Type really matter? -- Research questions -- Conceptual framework.
Summary Are the forces of habit and democratic decision-making so strong that outcomes are judged as legitimate whatever they are? This study examines whether the public's consent to welfare state solidarity and its choices of justice principles are related to the specifics of welfare state regimes.
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Subject Welfare state -- Public opinion -- Cross-cultural studies.
Welfare state -- Public opinion.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Welfare state.
Social policy -- Public opinion -- Cross-cultural studies.
Social policy -- Public opinion.
Social policy.
Public welfare -- Public opinion -- Cross-cultural studies.
Public welfare -- Public opinion.
Public welfare.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gelissen, John. Worlds of welfare, worlds of consent?. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2002 9004124578 (DLC) 2002027673 (OCoLC)50132278
ISBN 1417524596 (electronic book)
9781417524594 (electronic book)
9047401336
9789047401339
9004124578 (alkaline paper)