How does the welfare state reduce crime? The effect of program characteristics and decommodification across 18 OECD-countries
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101684
Abstract: Abstract Purpose The article revisits the negative effect of welfare state schemes on crime rates with a focus on the pathways of that effect. Social support theory (SST) and institutional anomie theory (IAT) are two… read more here.
Keywords: state; effect; welfare state; crime ... See more keywords
Legitimate earnings inequality and national welfare commitment: Correspondence between economic institutions and the pay 80,000+ people in 30 nations think legitimate for ordinary jobs and for elite jobs.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102446
Abstract: In formulating views of just reward for high-status and low-status work, do ordinary citizens take cues from their nation's public stance on income inequality as institutionally embedded in their welfare state, i.e. their social welfare… read more here.
Keywords: earnings inequality; legitimate earnings; inequality; inequality national ... See more keywords
Beyond Positive and Negative: New Perspectives on Feedback Effects in Public Opinion on the Welfare State
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DOI: 10.1017/s0007123418000534
Abstract: Abstract The study of policy feedback on public attitudes and policy preferences has become a growing area of research in recent years. Scholars in the tradition of Pierson usually argue that positive, self-reinforcing feedback effects… read more here.
Keywords: feedback effects; public opinion; welfare state; positive negative ... See more keywords
Reducing Risk as well as Inequality: Assessing the Welfare State's Insurance Effects
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DOI: 10.1017/s0007123420000034
Abstract: Abstract Leading accounts of the politics of the welfare state focus on societal demands for risk-spreading policies. Yet current measures of the welfare state focus not on risk, but on inequality. To address this gap,… read more here.
Keywords: reducing risk; inequality; welfare state; state ... See more keywords
Fred Powell (2017) The Political Economy of the Irish Welfare State: Church, State and Capital, Bristol: Policy Press, £80.00, pp. 304, hbk.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0047279418000685
Abstract: of welfare ideology and the presence of pronounced market ideology’ among the governing parties (pp. 241). Apart from these empirical results, the book makes two major contributions to the field. The first contribution concerns the… read more here.
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Kelly Bogue (2019), The Divisive State of Social Policy: The ‘Bedroom Tax’, Austerity and Housing Insecurity, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 204, hbk.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0047279420000471
Abstract: Dignan quixotically advocated the removal of social security, hospitals and community health services from State control. It failed because of Dignan’s archaic ideas that did not have popular appeal. His proposal suffered a similar fate… read more here.
Keywords: state; policy; irish welfare; social policy ... See more keywords
Social Investment, Redistribution or Basic Income? Exploring the Association Between Automation Risk and Welfare State Attitudes in Europe
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DOI: 10.1017/s0047279421000519
Abstract: Rapid technological change – the digitalization and automation of work – is challenging contemporary welfare states. Most of the existing research, however, focuses on its effect on labor market outcomes, such as employment or wage… read more here.
Keywords: automation; automation risk; welfare state; welfare ... See more keywords
The welfare state and the roles of social capital in subjective well-being: The crowding-out and crowding-in arguments revisited
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DOI: 10.1017/s0047279423000223
Abstract: In international comparative research, significant advances have been made in the study of the effect of social capital and the welfare state on subjective well-being (SWB). However, few studies have examined how the welfare state… read more here.
Keywords: subjective well; social capital; welfare state; capital ... See more keywords
Growing Old with the Welfare State. Eight British Lives Nick Hubble, Jennie Taylor and Philip Tew (eds), Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2019, 159 pp., pbk £17.99, ISBN 13: 978-1-3500-3309-2
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DOI: 10.1017/s0144686x20000136
Abstract: for non-governmental organisations, government institutions and academia, but also stress that all advances that have been done from the South should be recognised in the Global North (Santos, 2016). If you are looking for some… read more here.
Keywords: welfare state; old welfare; growing old; state eight ... See more keywords
Boundaries of Belonging: The Welfare State in the Wake of Decolonisation
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DOI: 10.1017/s0960777323000176
Abstract: Over the course of the 1970s, Europe reckoned with the after-effects of decolonisation – a transformative process in world history that not only led to the movement of millions of people from the former colonies,… read more here.
Keywords: state wake; belonging welfare; welfare; welfare state ... See more keywords
An Age of Risk: Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain. By Emily C. Nacol. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. 184p. $39.95 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s153759271700408x
Abstract: “better” outcomes. Engster’s focus on defending the welfare state appears to lead him to misunderstand important components of Rawls’s theory, and to obscure some important issues. For example, Engster criticizes Rawls for rejecting the capitalist… read more here.
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