The social legitimacy of targeted welfare : attitudes to welfare deservingness
Title:
The social legitimacy of targeted welfare : attitudes to welfare deservingness
Author:
Oorschot, Wim van, editor.
ISBN:
9781785367205
Physical Description:
xviii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series:
Globalization and welfare
Globalization and welfare.
Contents:
The social legitimacy of targeted welfare and welfare deservingness / Popular ranking and weighing of deservingness. A universal rank order of deservingness? geographical, temporal and social-structural comparisons / The relative importance of welfare deservingness criteria / The cognitive basis of popular deservingness opinions. False beliefs and the perceived deservingness of social security benefit claimants / Negative attitudes towards welfare claimants: the importance of unconscious bias / Media frames of (un)deservingness. Are visual depictions of poverty in the US gendered and racialized? / The varying faces of poverty and deservingness in Dutch print media / The national context of deservingness opinions. How welfare reforms influence public opinion regarding welfare deservingness: evidence from Dutch time-series Data, 1975-2006 / Making deservingness of the unemployed conditional: changes in public support for the conditionality of unemployment benefits / Obligations of benefit claimants. The deservingness logic applied to public opinions concerning work obligations for Benefit claimants / Deservingness opinions among bureaucrats and policymakers. Social assistance deservingness and policy measures: Attitudes of Finnish politicians, administrators and citizens / Deservingness in social assistance administrative practice: a factorial survey approach / Healthcare deservingness opinions of the general public and policymakers compared: a discrete choice experiment / Deservingness of migrants. Us versus them: examining the perceived deservingness of minority groups in the British welfare state using a survey experiment / Leap of faith or judgment of deservingness? Generalized trust, trust in immigrants and support for the welfare state / Deservingness of the rich. They're not worthy: the perceived deservingness of the rich and its connection to policy preferences / Do the rich deserve a tax cut? Public images, deservingness criteria and Americans' tax policy preferences / Evaluating the fruitfulness of deservingness theory
Abstract:
Presenting a stimulating contribution to the quickly advancing field of welfare attitudes research, this important book develops the understanding of welfare legitimacy. It does so by assessing the nature of popular judgments about welfare deservingness, as well as the roots and consequences of these attitudes, offering a state-of-the-art picture of the latest theoretical, conceptual and methodological developments. The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare provides a multidisciplinary view on deservingness attitudes, with contributions from sociology, political science, media studies and social psychology. It advocates a multi-actor perspective, looking not only at citizens' attitudes, but also at attitudes of social administrators and policy-makers. The chapters also present new research methods in the field, including discrete choice experiments, factorial surveys, focus groups, and media content analysis. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in sociology, political science, and the fields of social psychology, philosophy, economics and history. It will help practitioners and policymakers in social policy, social work and healthcare understand popular perceptions and beliefs regarding just distributions of welfare. -- Provided by publisher.
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