Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare

✍ Scribed by Peter Taylor-Gooby, Benjamin Leruth

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 327
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries. The forum method yields new insights into how people frame social issues, their priorities and acceptable solutions. This is the first time democratic forums have been used as a research tool in this field.

The contributors’ research show that most people recognize growing inequality, population ageing, paying for health care and pensions, social care and immigration as areas where the welfare state faces real challenges. The most striking findings are the high level of support across all countries for social investment, and the way justifications for this vary between welfare state regimes. The authors also explore key areas such as immigration and intergenerational differences.

Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including politics, social policy and sociology, as well as policy-makers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
New Challenges for the Welfare State and New Ways to Study Them (Peter Taylor-Gooby, Benjamin Leruth)....Pages 1-28
Individualism and Neo-Liberalism (Peter Taylor-Gooby, Benjamin Leruth)....Pages 29-61
European Welfare Nationalism: A Democratic Forum Study in Five Countries (Christian Albrekt Larsen, Morten Frederiksen, Mathias Herup Nielsen)....Pages 63-91
Attitudes to Inequalities: Citizen Deliberation About the (Re-)Distribution of Income and Wealth in Four Welfare State Regimes (Jan-Ocko Heuer, Steffen Mau, Katharina Zimmermann)....Pages 93-135
Intergenerational Solidarity and the Sustainability of State Welfare (Mi Ah Schøyen, Bjørn Hvinden)....Pages 137-181
The Provision of Care: Whose Responsibility and Why? (Heejung Chung, Maša Filipovič Hrast, Tatjana Rakar)....Pages 183-214
Healthcare Futures: Visions of Solidarity and the Sustainability of European Healthcare Systems (Maša Filipovič Hrast, Ellen M. Immergut, Tatjana Rakar, Urban Boljka, Diana Burlacu, Andra Roescu)....Pages 215-242
Labour Market Challenges and the Role of Social Investment (Katharina Zimmermann, Heejung Chung, Jan-Ocko Heuer)....Pages 243-272
Democratic Forums and Welfare State Attitudes (Peter Taylor-Gooby, Benjamin Leruth)....Pages 273-295
Back Matter ....Pages 297-317

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Comparative Social Policy; Politics of the Welfare State; Political Sociology; Public Policy

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