Welfare State Futures: Our Children's Europe

欧洲福利国家未来将如何发展？欧洲公民在公共福利和社会保障方面有哪些期望、想法和愿望？在他们看来，确保下一代的福利和社会保障的重点应该是什么？该项目的主要目标是更好地了解公民如何看待和想象欧洲福利国家的未来。该项目面向未来，围绕三个主要研究问题：1。普通公民对他们孩子的欧洲福利国家的未来有什么愿望和期望？他们的优先事项是什么，有多强烈？他们的偏好是如何被证明的？2.哪些假设和价值观是这些态度模式的基础？人们如何理解和理解推动变革的因素？财政和其他约束是如何进入人们对福利国家的看法的？3.福利政策不断变化的社会、政治和经济背景如何与人们的期望和态度相互作用？哪些新的分裂和团结正在出现？参加该项目的国家有：德国、联合王国、挪威、丹麦、荷兰和斯洛文尼亚。拟议研究计划的德国子项目-福利国家的未来：我们的儿童的欧洲：福利国家-分析德国福利国家和德国公民的期望、价值观和态度，并将案例置于比较背景下，该项目正在使用创新的方法论方法来审查上述研究问题。讨论性民主论坛以及焦点小组访谈将被用来审查欧洲公民对福利团结和社会正义的态度，并从跨国视角的基本话语。目的是深入了解欧洲各国普遍存在的正义和团结原则以及主要的分裂，并阐明可能的社会政策改革方向。

How will European welfare states develop in the future? Which expectations, ideas and aspirations do European citizens have in relation with public welfare provision and social security? In their view, what should be the main emphasis to ensure welfare and social security for the coming generations?The main objective of the project is to get a better understanding of how citizens view and imagine the future of European welfare states. The project is future-oriented and centres around three main research questions:1. What are the aspirations and expectations of ordinary citizens with regard to the future of the welfare state in their children s Europe. What are their priorities and how strongly are they held? How are their preferences justified?2. Which assumptions and values underlie the attitudinal patterns? How do people understand and interprete the factors driving change? How do fiscal and other constraints enter into people s views on the welfare state?3. How does the changing social, political and economic context of welfare policy interact with peoples expectations and attitudes? Which new cleavages and solidarities are emerging?The countries participating in the project are Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Slovenia. The German subproject of the proposed research program - Welfare State Futures: Our Children s Europe: WelfSOC - analyses the German welfare state and the expectations, values and attitudes of the German citizens and puts the case into comparative context.The project is using an innovative methodological approach to examine the research questions mentioned above. Deliberative democratic forums as well as focus group interviews will be employed to scrutinize the attitudes of European citizens on welfare solidarity and social justice and the underlying discourses from a cross-national perspective. The objective is to gain insight into prevailing principles of justice and solidarity as well as dominant cleavages in various European countries and to spell out directions of possible social policy reforms.