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Where Should the Money Go? A Six-country Comparison of Attitudes toward Spending on Public Pensions and Unemployment Programs
International Journal of Social Science Studies
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Where Should the Money Go? A Six-country Comparison of Attitudes toward Spending on Public Pensions and Unemployment Programs
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Pederson, JoEllen
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Using both country-level and individual-level theories and indicators, this paper examines attitudes toward government spending on unemployment and pensions, two of the most expensive welfare state programs. I use a basic form of multilevel modeling to test three theories: self-interest, political ideology, and Esping-Andersen’s regime typology. Specificlly, I examine how self-interest and political ideology shape respondents’ ideas about spending on welfare and how these ideas vary across six countries. Based on my results, I argue that attitudes toward unemployment and pensions are not the same and cannot be assumed to be. With that said, Esping-Andersen’s typology can, in fact, be applied to attitudes with minimal variation especially as it pertains to pensions. Self-interest and political ideology theories both impact individual-level differences in attitudes; while these theories measure different ideas of influence, they are both important in understanding peoples’ attitudes about social policies.
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Redfame Publishing
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2013-10-21
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/240
10.11114/ijsss.v2i1.240 |
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International Journal of Social Science Studies; Vol 2, No 1 (2014); 38-50
2324-8041 2324-8033 |
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eng
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http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/240/201
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