The weakest link in welfare state legitimacy: European perceptions of moral and administrative failure in the targeting of social benefits
The weakest link in welfare state legitimacy: European perceptions of moral and administrative failure in the targeting of social benefits
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福利国家合法性的最薄弱环节：欧洲对社会福利目标方面道德和行政失败的看法
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2014
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J. Gelissen
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Femke Roosma;Wim van Oorschot;J. Gelissen
在福利态度研究领域，一般来说，对福利国家批判态度的研究相当有限。然而，现有研究发现，人们对福利金的定位错误最为负面——即人们对福利金的过度使用（误用或欺诈）和使用不足（不接受）尤其批评。本研究通过揭示道德失败或行政实施失败的潜在看法，更广泛地分析对福利福利过度使用和利用不足的看法，为当前文献做出了贡献。我们还评估不同的个人和背景因素如何影响这些看法。我们使用 25 个欧洲国家 2008/2009 年欧洲社会调查的数据。我们发现，对福利过度使用和利用不足的看法似乎是由关于福利国家行政有效性的规范思想和观点驱动的，而不是代表同一错误目标概念的两种表现形式。关于福利过度使用的规范性观念主要受人们的政治意识形态和再分配制度选择性的影响，而关于福利有效性的观念主要受人们的制度信任、福利国家的质量和经济背景的影响。我们的结论是，对福利国家的批评态度有多个维度，可以是实质性的，也可以是程序性的。
In the field of welfare attitude research, generally studies examining critical attitudes toward the welfare state are rather limited. However, the existing studies find that people are most negative about the mis-targeting of welfare benefits – that is, people are particularly critical of the high overuse (misuse or fraud) and high underuse (non-take-up) of welfare benefits. This study contributes to the current literature by more extensively analyzing perceptions of the overuse and underuse of welfare benefits by revealing the underlying perceptions of moral failure or failed administrative implementation. We also assess how different individual- and contextual-level factors influence those perceptions. We use data from the European Social Survey 2008/2009 for 25 European countries. We find that instead of representing two manifestations of the same concept of mis-targeting, perceptions of the overuse and underuse of benefits appear to be driven by normative ideas and opinions about the administrative effectiveness of the welfare state. Whereas normative ideas about the overuse of benefits are mainly influenced by people’s political ideology and the selectivity of the redistribution system, ideas about the effectiveness of benefits are mainly influenced by people’s institutional trust, the quality of the welfare state and the economic context. We conclude that critical attitudes toward the welfare state have multiple dimensions and can be both substantive and procedural in nature.