Worlds of Welfare, worlds of Consent? 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.
- ISBN10 9004124578
- ISBN13 9789004124578
- Publish Date 26 July 2002 (first published 1 January 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Brill
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 244
- Language English
- URL brill.com/product_id10327