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| Commitment to the welfare state | | Author(s) | Peter Taylor-Gooby |
| Corporate Author | Social and Community Planning Research - SCPR |
| Journal title | IN: British and European Social Attitudes, the 15th report; 1998/99 ed.; edited by Roger Jowell (et al), 1998 |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 57-76 |
| Source | Ashgate Publishing Limited, Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 3HR. |
| Keywords | Social welfare ; Social security benefits ; Social policy ; Public opinion ; United Kingdom ; Germany ; Italy ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | This chapter looks at developments in public attitudes toward the welfare state in four countries (the UK, Germany, Italy and Sweden), and considers how governments might deal with the challenges they face. It asks whether public attitudes may press European welfare states to converge on lower levels of state provision, targeting only certain closely-defined "needy" groups, or whether welfare systems in different countries will instead diverge, each nation adopting its own distinctive solutions. Data provided by the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) was used. Some differences in patterns of support for welfare policies between the four countries was found: however, this support has been weakening in recent years. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990308201 B |
| Classmark | TY: JH: TM2: U5: 8: 767: 76V: 76P |
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