Explanations for poverty and demand for social policy

Rapport Working paper Explanations for poverty and demand for social policy eng 2021 author Marquis Lionel 82819 author Rosset Jan 0000-0001-6037-9292 856229 48 Individuals hold beliefs about what causes poverty and those beliefs have been theorised to explain policy preferences and ultimately cross-country variations in welfare states. However, there has been little empirical work on the effects of poverty attributions welfare state attitudes. We seek to fill this gap by making use of Eurobarometer data from 27 European countries in the years 2009, 2010 and 2014 to explore the effects of poverty attributions on judgments about economic inequality as well as preferences regarding the welfare state. Relying on a four quadrant typology of poverty attribution which includes individual fate, individual blame, social fate and social blame as potential explanations for poverty, our analyses show that these poverty attributions are associated with judgments about inequality and broadly defined support for the welfare state but have little or no effect on more concrete policy proposals such as unemployment benefits or increase of social welfare at the expense of higher taxes. Dewey 320 European Commission Unequal Democracies EU H2020 121 Département de science politique et relations internationales T3 false b5e90290-f0a9-4989-8ba4-615b55da198e Working paper Public wp23.pdf 796795 application/pdf openAccess Faculté des sciences de la société / Département de science politique et relations internationales

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