Worlds of Welfare, Worlds of Consent?
Subtitle: Public Opinion on the Welfare State (International Comparative Social Studies)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9789004124578
Subjects: Central government policies; Social welfare & social services; Welfare state; Social Science; Social Welfare Policies And Programs; Sociology - General; Sociology; General; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Epistemology; Cross-cultural studies; Public Opinion; Public welfare; Social policy
Description: "Are the forces of habit and democratic decision-making so strong that outcomes are judged as legitimate whatever the outcomes are? Or is the relationship between the real worlds of welfare capitalism and public opinion more complex?" "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, as initially conceived by Goesta Esping-Andersen (1990) and, later, extended and amended by his critics."

"This is done by using opinion and attitude data from several large-scale survey projects which cover the early to mid-1990's. In the book, people's opinions concerning government intervention in social protection and their beliefs about social justice are compared across a wide variety of welfare states."--Jacket.