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Attitudes towards redistributive spending in an era of demographic ageing
— the rival pressures from age and income in 14 OECD countries | | Author(s) | Marius R Busemeyer, Achim Goerres, Simon Weschle |
| Journal title | Journal of European Social Policy, vol 19, no 3, July 2009 |
| Pages | pp 195-212 |
| Source | http://esp.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Income [older people] ; Social welfare ; Public expenditure ; Ageing process ; Demography ; Public opinion ; Cross national surveys ; International. |
| Annotation | This article is about the relative impact of age and income on individual attitudes towards welfare state policies in advanced industrial democracies, that is, the extent to which the intergenerational conflict supercedes or complements intragenerational conflicts. On the basis of a multivariate statistical analysis of the 1996 International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) Role of Government Data Set for 14 OECD countries, the authors find considerable age-related differences in welfare state preferences. In particular, for the case of education spending, but also other policy areas, they see that one's position in the life cycle is a more important predictor of preferences than income. Second, some countries, such as the United States, show a higher salience of the age cleavage across all policy fields - that is, age is a more important line of political preference information in these countries than in others. Third, country characteristics matter. Although the relative salience of age varies across policy areas, the authors see a large variance across countries within one policy area. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091124001 A |
| Classmark | JF: TY: WN8: BG: S8: U5: 3K: 72 |
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