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Social Values and Cross-National Differences in Attitudes towards Welfare

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  • Gizem Arikan
  • Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom

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type="main"> Studies on public opinion about welfare already acknowledge the role context plays in individual attitudes towards welfare. However, the much-debated effect of socially held values and beliefs on attitudes towards social policy has not been empirically investigated. Drawing on studies in political and social psychology, as well as Shalom Schwartz's work on universal human values, this article argues that social values, specifically egalitarianism and embeddedness, affect individual support for social welfare policies. Moreover, we posit that social values condition the effect that individual ideological orientations have on attitudes towards government responsibility, such that the effect of embeddedness is much stronger for right-wing and moderate identifiers than those who lean towards the left. We test our hypotheses using data from the European Social Surveys (ESS) and International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) Role of Government module and employing multi-level modelling. Our results provide evidence of the importance of social context and shared values in influencing attitudes towards welfare.

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  • Gizem Arikan & Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, 2015. "Social Values and Cross-National Differences in Attitudes towards Welfare," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 63(2), pages 431-448, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:polstu:v:63:y:2015:i:2:p:431-448
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    1. Gizem Arikan & Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, 2019. "“I was hungry and you gave me food”: Religiosity and attitudes toward redistribution," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(3), pages 1-24, March.
    2. JaeYoul Shin, 2019. "How Can we Achieve a Sustainable Redistributive Policy? Rethinking the Relationship Between Civic Engagement, Neighborhood Relationship and Labor Market Status," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 142(1), pages 343-362, February.
    3. Seungwoo Han, 2023. "Welfare regimes in Asia: convergent or divergent?," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-14, December.
    4. Dirk Schoenmaker & Hans Stegeman, 2023. "Can the Market Economy Deal with Sustainability?," De Economist, Springer, vol. 171(1), pages 25-49, March.
    5. Nowack, Daniel & Schoderer, Sophia, 2020. "The role of values for social cohesion: Theoretical explication and empirical exploration," IDOS Discussion Papers 6/2020, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    6. Katharina Kunißen, 2019. "From Dependent to Independent Variable: A Critical Assessment of Operationalisations of ‘Welfare Stateness’ as Macro-Level Indicators in Multilevel Analyses," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 142(2), pages 597-616, April.
    7. Gilad Be’ery & Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, 2015. "God and the Welfare State - Substitutes or Complements? An Experimental Test of the Effect of Belief in God's Control," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(6), pages 1-27, June.
    8. Berrick, Jill Duerr & Skivenes, Marit & Roscoe, Joseph N., 2023. "Public perceptions of child protection, children’s rights, and personal values: An assessment of two states," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).

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