Where Should the Money Go? A Six-country Comparison of Attitudes toward Spending on Public Pensions and Unemployment Programs

Autor:	JoEllen Pederson
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	jel:Z0 Government spending Typology Economic growth Public economics business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Welfare state Public opinion Politics welfare pensions unemployment cross-national public opinion Unemployment Economics Ideology jel:R00 business Welfare media_common
Zdroj:	International Journal of Social Science Studies. 2
ISSN:	2324-8041 2324-8033
DOI:	10.11114/ijsss.v2i1.240
Popis:	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.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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