Social justice, legitimacy and the welfare state
By: edited by Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte
Contributors: Mau, Steffen, 1968-; Veghte, Benjamin
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780754649397
Subjects: Welfare state; Social justice; Welfare state -- Europe; Welfare state -- Europe -- Case studies; Welfare state -- United States
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : social justice, legitimacy and the welfare state / Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte; title: Welfare-attitude formation from a cross-national perspective; title: Social stratification and political articulation : why attitudinal class differences vary across countries / Staffan Kumlin and Stefan Svallfors; title: Who supports the welfare state? : determinants of preferences concerning redistribution / Phillip Rehm; title: Are the 'deserving needy' really deserving everywhere? : cross-cultural heterogeneity and popular support for the old and the sick in eight Western countries / Mads Meier Jæger; title: Burdens and benefits : the justice perspective; title: When is a taxation system just? : attitudes towards general taxation principles and towards the justice of one's own tax burden / Stefan Liebig and Steffen Mau; title: The moral economy of poverty : on the conditionality of public support for social assistance schemes / Patrick Sachweh, Carsten G. Ulrich and Bernhard Christoph; title: Political factors shaping welfare attitudes; title: Social policy preferences, national defense and political polarization in the United States / Benjamin Veghte, Greg M. Shaw and Robert Y. Shapiro; title: Populist challenges to the welfare state in Belgium : on the susceptibility of the underprivileged for anti-welfare state discourse and politics / Anton Derks; title: The welfare state consensus in Israel : placing class politics in context / Michael Shalev; title: The challenge of social and ethnic diversity; title: Multi-level determinants of the public's informal solidarity towards immigrants in European welfare states / Wim van Oorschot and Wilfred Uunk; title: Legitimacy of welfare states in transitions from homogeneity to multiculturality : a matter of trust / Knut Halvorsen; title: Index