Welfare State Futures: Our Children's Europe

欧洲福利国家未来将如何发展？在公共福利提供和社会保障方面，欧洲公民有哪些期望、想法和愿望？在他们看来，确保未来几代人的福利和社会保障的主要重点应该是什么？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展开：1.普通公民对其子女S欧洲福利国家未来的渴望和期望是什么。他们的优先事项是什么？他们的支持率有多高？他们的偏好如何被证明是合理的？2.哪些假设和价值观是态度模式的基础？人们如何理解和解释推动变化的因素？财政等制约因素如何进入人们对福利国家的看法？3.不断变化的社会、政治和经济背景下的福利政策与人们的期望和态度是如何相互作用的？哪些新的分裂和统一正在出现？参与该项目的国家是德国、英国、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：我们的孩子S欧洲：世界福利组织-分析德国的福利国家以及德国公民的期望、价值观和态度，并将案例置于比较的背景下。该项目正在使用一种创新的方法来审查上述研究问题。将利用协商民主论坛和焦点小组访谈，从跨国家的角度审视欧洲公民对福利、团结和社会正义的态度以及基本的论述。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分歧，并阐明可能进行的社会政策改革的方向。

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.