The welfare state under strain: A comparative study of diversity, austerity and public opinion

压力下的福利国家：多样性、紧缩政策和舆论的比较研究

• 批准号: ES/K006126/1
• 负责人: Robert Ford
• 金额: $ 17.54万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK006126%2F1
• 关键词: welfare; state; under; strain; comparative

Our objective is to improve understanding of the changing determinants of public opinion towards welfare state institutions and policies in European societies in response to the pressures of diversity and economic austerity. We aim to answer four key questions:(i) What is the impact of diversity on welfare attitudes, and how are these influenced by national context?(ii) What is the impact of austerity on welfare attitudes, and how do these effects interact with the effects of diversity? How are these effects mediated by national context?(iii) How do public attitudes to welfare change over time, and what role do political messages and messengers play in driving this change? How are these changes and effects mediated by national context?(iv) To what extent are the effects of diversity and austerity, and their interaction, moderated by voters' political ideologies, values and partisan attachments? What role does national context play in influencing these complex patterns of interaction? To answer these questions, we plan to conduct a 30 month, five wave comparative panel study in Britain and the Netherlands. The panel will feature a series of embedded survey experiments designed to test the impact of diversity, austerity, and various moderators on political attitudes. The experiments will be designed to mimic media and campaign content concerning welfare policies, realistically reflecting the kind of material voters are exposed to when assessing policies. Identical experiments will be conducted simultaneously in the two countries, which will enable us for the first time to examine how national context mediates the effects of these factors on public opinion. We will also capture attitude change over time by surveying the same voters repeatedly, and we will examine the impact of the most powerful source of political information - election campaigns - by timing these repeated survey waves before and immediately after European Parliament and national elections. The data generated by the project will be made publicly available and will provide a valuable resource to the research community: comparative panel surveys are rare, and to our knowledge none has ever incorporated simultaneous comparative embedded experiments in the manner we propose.

我们的目标是提高对欧洲社会对福利国家制度和政策的民意变化决定因素的理解，以应对多样性和经济紧缩的压力。我们的目标是回答四个关键问题：(i)多样性对福利态度的影响是什么，这些态度如何受到国家背景的影响？（ii）紧缩对福利态度的影响是什么，这些影响如何与多样性的影响相互作用？这些影响是如何受到国家背景的影响的？（iii）公众对福利的态度如何随着时间的推移而变化，政治信息和信使在推动这种变化方面发挥了什么作用？这些变化和影响是如何受到国家背景的影响的？多样性和紧缩的影响及其相互作用在多大程度上受到选民的政治意识形态、价值观和党派依恋的缓和？国家背景在影响这些复杂的互动模式方面发挥了什么作用？为了回答这些问题，我们计划在英国和荷兰进行为期30个月的五波比较小组研究。该小组将以一系列嵌入式调查实验为特色，旨在测试多样性、紧缩政策和各种调节因素对政治态度的影响。这些实验将模仿媒体和竞选活动中有关福利政策的内容，真实地反映选民在评估政策时所接触到的材料类型。同样的实验将在这两个国家同时进行，这将使我们第一次能够研究民族背景如何调节这些因素对公众舆论的影响。我们还将通过反复调查相同的选民来捕捉态度随着时间的变化，我们将通过在欧洲议会和国家选举之前和之后对这些重复的调查浪潮进行计时，来检查最强大的政治信息来源——竞选活动的影响。该项目产生的数据将公开，并将为研究界提供宝贵的资源：比较小组调查是罕见的，据我们所知，还没有人以我们提议的方式同时纳入比较嵌入式实验。

项目成果

Deserving and Undeserving Welfare Claimants in Britain and the Netherlands: Examining the Role of Ethnicity and Migration Status Using a Vignette Experiment

• DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcw010
• 发表时间: 2016-06-01
• 期刊: EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Kootstra, Anouk

The Impact of Ethnic and Religious Targeting on Support for State Assistance: Experimental Evidence from Britain

民族和宗教目标对国家援助支持的影响：来自英国的实验证据

• 作者: Ford, R

Welfare Chauvinism in the United Kingdom and in The Netherlands: Evidence from a Vignette Experiment

英国和荷兰的福利沙文主义：来自小插图实验的证据

• 作者: Kootstra, A

Do white voters support welfare policies targeted at ethnic minorities? Experimental evidence from Britain

白人选民支持针对少数族裔的福利政策吗？

• DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2016.1180969
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Ford R

Changing public support for welfare sanctioning in Britain and the Netherlands: A persuasion experiment

英国和荷兰改变公众对福利制裁的支持：一项说服实验

• DOI: 10.1111/spol.12401
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Social Policy & Administration
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Kootstra A