Popular perceptions of welfare state consequences: A multilevel, cross-national analysis of 25 European countries
Popular perceptions of welfare state consequences: A multilevel, cross-national analysis of 25 European countries
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对福利国家后果的普遍看法：对 25 个欧洲国家的多层次、跨国分析
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2012
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B. Meuleman
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Wim van Oorschot;Tim Reeskens;B. Meuleman
福利国家的社会影响是公众争论中的一个长期问题。批评者指责福利国家产生了意想不到的经济和道德后果，而不是产生了预期的社会目标。对福利国家可能后果的普遍看法是福利国家合法性的重要组成部分，但几乎没有得到任何学术关注。利用2008年欧洲社会调查的浪潮，我们分析了欧洲公民如何看待福利国家的后果，是否认为积极的后果超过消极的后果，以及在何种程度上的后果的看法是由个人和国家层面的因素。结论是，欧洲公众对积极的社会后果比消极的经济和道德后果有更清晰的眼光。此外，在个人层面上，这些看法主要受到观念因素的影响，而在国家层面上，它们则受到福利国家慷慨的影响。有趣的是，在更发达的福利国家，公众对负面影响和积极影响的感知更强烈。
The societal effects of the welfare state are a perennial issue in the public debate. Critics accuse the welfare state of having unintended economic and moral consequences rather than producing its intended social goals. Popular perceptions of possible consequences of the welfare state are a crucial component of welfare state legitimacy, but have received hardly any scholarly attention. Using the 2008 wave of the European Social Survey, we analyse how European citizens perceive the consequences of the welfare state, whether perceived positive consequences outweigh the negative consequences, and to what extent consequence perceptions are determined by individual and country-level factors. The conclusion is that the European public has a clearer eye for the positive social than for negative economic and moral consequences. Moreover, at the individual level these perceptions are mainly influenced by ideational factors, while they are affected by welfare state generosity at the country level. Interestingly, in more developed welfare states the public perceives the negative, as well as the positive consequences more strongly.