Overview

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. Contributors include: H. Blomberg, A. Bos, C. Buss, R. de Vries, M. De Wilde, B. Ebbinghaus, S. Evers, A. Fladmoe, B.B. Geiger, M. Hiligsmann, M. Jeene, J. Kallio, O. Kangas, A. Kootstra, C. Kroll, S. Kumlin, T. Laenen, D. Lepianka, B. Meuleman, E. Naumann, M. Niemelä, A. Paulus, J. Ragusa, T. Reeskens, F. Roosma, M. Sadin, K. Steen-Johnson, W. Uunk, M. van der Aa, T. van der Meer, B. van Doorn, W. van Oorschot, D. Wollebaek

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Author:   Wim van Oorschot ,  Femke Roosma ,  Bart Meuleman ,  Tim Reeskens
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.730kg
ISBN:  

9781785367205

ISBN 10:   178536720
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   29 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare and Welfare Deservingness Wim van Oorschot and Femke Roosma PART II POPULAR RANKING AND WEIGHING OF DESERVINGNESS 2. A Universal Rank Order of Deservingness? Geographical, Temporal and Social-Structural Comparisons Tijs Laenen and Bart Meuleman 3. The Relative Importance of Welfare Deservingness Criteria Tim Reeskens and Tom van der Meer PART III THE COGNITIVE BASIS OF POPULAR DESERVINGNESS OPINIONS 4. False Beliefs and the Perceived Deservingness of Social Security Benefit Claimants Ben Baumberg Geiger 5. Negative Attitudes towards Welfare Claimants: The Importance of Unconscious Bias Robert de Vries PART IV MEDIA FRAMES OF (UN)DESERVINGNESS 6. Are Visual Depictions of Poverty in the US Gendered and Racialized? Bas van Doorn and Angela Bos 7. The Varying Faces of Poverty and Deservingness in Dutch Print Media Dorota Lepianka PART V THE NATIONAL CONTEXT OF DESERVINGNESS OPINIONS 8. How Welfare Reforms Influence Public Opinion Regarding Welfare Deservingness: Evidence from Dutch Time-Series Data, 1975-2006 Wilfred Uunk and Wim van Oorschot 9. Making Deservingness of the Unemployed Conditional: Changes in Public Support for the Conditionality of Unemployment Benefits Christopher Buss, Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Elias Naumann PART VI OBLIGATIONS OF BENEFIT CLAIMANTS 10. The Deservingness Logic Applied to Public Opinions Concerning Work Obligations for Benefit Claimants Femke Roosma and Marjolein Jeene PART VII DESERVINGNESS OPINIONS AMONG BUREAUCRATS AND POLICYMAKERS 11. Social Assistance Deservingness and Policy Measures: Attitudes of Finnish Politicians, Administrators and Citizens Helena Blomberg, Johanna Kallio, Olli Kangas, Christian Kroll and Mikko Niemela 12. Deservingness in Social Assistance Administrative Practice: A Factorial Survey Approach Marjolijn De Wilde 13. Healthcare Deservingness Opinions of the General Public and Policymakers Compared: A Discrete Choice Experiment Maartje van der Aa, Mickael Hiligsmann, Aggie Paulus and Silvia Evers PART VIII DESERVINGNESS OF MIGRANTS 14. Us versus Them: Examining the Perceived Deservingness of Minority Groups in the British Welfare State Using a Survey Experiment Anouk Kootstra 15. Leap of Faith or Judgment of Deservingness? Generalized Trust, Trust in Immigrants and Support for the Welfare State Staffan Kumlin, Dag Wollebaek, Audun Fladmoe and Kari Steen-Johnsen PART IX DESERVINGNESS OF THE RICH 16. They're not Worthy: The Perceived Deservingness of the Rich and its Connection to Policy Preferences Meredith Sadin 17. Do the Rich Deserve a Tax Cut? Public Images, Deservingness Criteria and Americans' Tax Policy Preferences Jordan Ragusa PART X CONCLUSIONS 18. Evaluating the Fruitfulness of Deservingness Theory Bart Meuleman, Femke Roosma and Wim van Oorschot Index

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`Deservingness considerations are central to the moral economy of welfare state arrangements. This book, written by a distinguished group of authors, offers a comprehensive, inspiring and highly innovative account of the logic and the drivers of deservingness attitudes. The authors succeed in putting the question Who should get what, and why in perspective and show the pivotal role of deservingness opinion therein. For sure, the book will become a key reference in the wider field of comparative welfare state research.' -- Steffen Mau, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

'Deservingness considerations are central to the moral economy of welfare state arrangements. This book, written by a distinguished group of authors, offers a comprehensive, inspiring and highly innovative account of the logic and the drivers of deservingness attitudes. The authors succeed in putting the question Who should get what, and why in perspective and show the pivotal role of deservingness opinion therein. For sure, the book will become a key reference in the wider field of comparative welfare state research.' -- Steffen Mau, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

'Deservingness considerations are central to the moral economy of welfare state arrangements. This book, written by a distinguished group of authors, offers a comprehensive, inspiring and highly innovative account of the logic and the drivers of deservingness attitudes. The authors succeed in putting the question ''Who should get what, and why'' in perspective and show the pivotal role of deservingness opinion therein. For sure, the book will become a key reference in the wider field of comparative welfare state research.' --Steffen Mau, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

'Deservingness considerations are central to the moral economy of welfare state arrangements. This book, written by a distinguished group of authors, offers a comprehensive, inspiring and highly innovative account of the logic and the drivers of deservingness attitudes. The authors succeed in putting the question ''Who should get what, and why'' in perspective and show the pivotal role of deservingness opinion therein. For sure, the book will become a key reference in the wider field of comparative welfare state research.' --Steffen Mau, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

'Deservingness considerations are central to the moral economy of welfare state arrangements. This book, written by a distinguished group of authors, offers a comprehensive, inspiring and highly innovative account of the logic and the drivers of deservingness attitudes. The authors succeed in putting the question Who should get What, and Why in perspective and show the pivotal role of deservingness opinion therein. For sure, the book will become a key reference in the wider field of comparative welfare state research.' -- Steffen Mau, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

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Edited by Wim van Oorschot, Professor of Social Policy, University of Leuven, Belgium, Femke Roosma, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Bart Meuleman, Professor of Sociology, University of Leuven, Belgium and Tim Reeskens, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

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