Social justice, legitimacy and the welfare state. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte.
• Other Names: Mau, Steffen, 1968-; Veghte, Benjamin
• Contents: Introduction : social justice, legitimacy and the welfare state / Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte -- Welfare-attitude formation from a cross-national perspective -- Social stratification and political articulation : why attitudinal class differences vary across countries / Staffan Kumlin and Stefan Svallfors -- Who supports the welfare state? : determinants of preferences concerning redistribution / Phillip Rehm -- Are the 'deserving needy' really deserving everywhere? : cross-cultural heterogeneity and popular support for the old and the sick in eight Western countries / Mads Meier Jæger -- Burdens and benefits : the justice perspective -- When is a taxation system just? : attitudes towards general taxation principles and towards the justice of one's own tax burden / Stefan Liebig and Steffen Mau -- The moral economy of poverty : on the conditionality of public support for social assistance schemes / Patrick Sachweh, Carsten G. Ulrich and Bernhard Christoph -- Political factors shaping welfare attitudes -- Social policy preferences, national defense and political polarization in the United States / Benjamin Veghte, Greg M. Shaw and Robert Y. Shapiro -- Populist challenges to the welfare state in Belgium : on the susceptibility of the underprivileged for anti-welfare state discourse and politics / Anton Derks -- The welfare state consensus in Israel : placing class politics in context / Michael Shalev -- The challenge of social and ethnic diversity -- Multi-level determinants of the public's informal solidarity towards immigrants in European welfare states / Wim van Oorschot and Wilfred Uunk -- Legitimacy of welfare states in transitions from homogeneity to multiculturality : a matter of trust / Knut Halvorsen -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 361.65; Welfare state; Social justice; Welfare state -- Europe; Welfare state -- Europe -- Case studies; Welfare state -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351899444; 1351899449
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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