Welfare state reform support from below: Linking individual attitudes and organised interests in Europe (A06)

公众舆论和“既得利益”组织被视为重组社会政策的主要障碍。该项目分析了有组织的利益和舆论在改革过程中的作用。它继续研究养老金、医疗保健和劳动力市场政策，同时增加从生命历程和性别角度分析的家庭政策。结合对有组织利益集团新闻稿的文本分析和对调查数据的多元分析，研究了集体和个人行为者不断变化的改革偏好。通过对德国与其他欧洲国家的比较，揭示了不同的福利国家制度和利益中介制度对改革政治经济学的影响。

Public opinion and "vested" organised interests are seen as major obstacles to restructuring social policies. The project analyzes the role of organized interests and public opinion in the reform process. It continues to study pensions, healthcare, and labour market policies, while adding family policy analysed in a life-course and gender perspective. Combining text analyses of organized interests’ press releases and multivariate analyses of survey data, it examines the changing reform preferences of collective and individual actors. By comparing Germany with other European countries, it shows how different welfare state and interest intermediation systems affect the political economy of reform.