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Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018
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Abstract To what extent, and under what conditions, have workfare reforms shaped public opinion towards the unemployed? This article unpacks the punitive and enabling dimensions of the workfare turn and examines how changes to the rights and obligations of the unemployed have influenced related policy prefer... mehr
To what extent, and under what conditions, have workfare reforms shaped public opinion towards the unemployed? This article unpacks the punitive and enabling dimensions of the workfare turn and examines how changes to the rights and obligations of the unemployed have influenced related policy preferences. To do so, it presents a novel dataset on these reforms across a diverse set of welfare states and investigates potential feedback effects by combining our data with four waves of survey data from Europe and North America. Results suggest that while enabling measures generate more lenient attitudes towards the unemployed, punitive measures have no clear effect on public opinion – but they do accentuate the gap between the preferences of high- and low-income individuals. This leads us to conclude that the trend towards punitive and enabling measures since the 1980s has not broadly undermined solidarity with the unemployed, though it has increased income-based polarization.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Arbeit; Arbeitspolitik; Sozialpolitik; europäische Sozialpolitik; Arbeitslosigkeit; Arbeitsloser; Arbeitslosenunterstützung; öffentliche Meinung; internationaler Vergleich; Europa; Nordamerika; Wohlfahrtsstaat
Klassifikation
Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
workfare; policy feedback; European Values Study Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (EVS 1981-2008) (ZA4804 v 3.0.0); European Values Study 2017: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2017) (ZA7500 v 2.0.0)
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 818-850
Zeitschriftentitel
Comparative political studies, 57 (2023) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231178743
ISSN
0010-4140
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)