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

公众舆论和“既得”有组织利益被视为调整社会政策的主要障碍。该项目分析了有组织的利益集团和公众舆论在改革进程中的作用。它继续研究养恤金、保健和劳动力市场政策，同时增加从生命过程和性别角度分析的家庭政策。结合对有组织的利益集团新闻稿的文本分析和对调查数据的多元分析，本研究考察了集体和个人行动者不断变化的改革偏好。通过比较德国与其他欧洲国家，展示了不同的福利国家和利益中介体系如何影响改革的政治经济学。

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.