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Book Public Attitudes Toward Welfare  an Opinion Poll

Download or read book Public Attitudes Toward Welfare an Opinion Poll written by Genevieve W. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Attitudes Toward Welfare

Download or read book Public Attitudes Toward Welfare written by Genevieve W. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Attitudes Toward Welfare

Download or read book Public Attitudes Toward Welfare written by California. Department of Benefit Payments. Office of Planning and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Attitudes Toward Social Security  1935 1965

Download or read book Public Attitudes Toward Social Security 1935 1965 written by Michael E. Schiltz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is an examination of public reaction to the Social Security Act of 1935 and its various provisions, and to the proposals for its extension, from its enactment to the fall of 1965. Lt is an examination of the way in which these provisions were understood, the degree to which they were accepted, and the underlying attitudes toward poverty that are presumed to be associated with them. The basic data analyzed in this study were obtained in nationwide public opinion surveys that have been taken by a variety of agencies since 1935, notably those conducted by the American Institute of Public Opinion (the Gallup poll), Elmo Roper (principally for Fortune Magazine), the National Opinion Research Center (now affiliated with the University of Chicago), and the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan. This study was undertaken in the conviction that whatever information is available on these matters ought to be retrieved and assimilated, because inevitably it will improve our understanding of the process by which a free, competitive society can solve the paradox of poverty amid abundance.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State written by Francis G. Castles and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is the authoritative and definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly fifty newly-written chapters, a broad range of the world's leading scholars offer a comprehensive account of everything one needs to know about the modern welfare state. The book is divided into eight sections. It opens with three chapters that evaluate the philosophical case for (and against) the welfare state. Surveys of the welfare state 's history and of the approaches taken to its study are followed by four extended sections, running to some thirty-five chapters in all, which offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of our current state of knowledge across the whole range of issues that the welfare state embraces. The first of these sections looks at inputs and actors (including the roles of parties, unions, and employers), the impact of gender and religion, patterns of migration and a changing public opinion, the role of international organisations and the impact of globalisation. The next two sections cover policy inputs (in areas such as pensions, health care, disability, care of the elderly, unemployment, and labour market activation) and their outcomes (in terms of inequality and poverty, macroeconomic performance, and retrenchment). The seventh section consists of seven chapters which survey welfare state experience around the globe (and not just within the OECD). Two final chapters consider questions about the global future of the welfare state. The individual chapters of the Handbook are written in an informed but accessible way by leading researchers in their respective fields giving the reader an excellent and truly up-to-date knowledge of the area under discussion. Taken together, they constitute a comprehensive compendium of all that is best in contemporary welfare state research and a unique guide to what is happening now in this most crucial and contested area of social and political development.

Book Ideology  Public Opinion    Welfare Policy

Download or read book Ideology Public Opinion Welfare Policy written by Richard M. Coughlin and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Sense of Public Opinion

Download or read book Making Sense of Public Opinion written by Claudia Strauss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes that Americans form views on immigration and social welfare programs from conventional ways of speaking rather than from ideologies.

Book Welfare Concepts and Welfare Services

Download or read book Welfare Concepts and Welfare Services written by Genevieve W. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare written by Femke Roosma and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together contributions from a diverse range of international scholars, A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare draws upon past and contemporary research methods used to study citizens’ attitudes to welfare. It highlights the rapidly growing research potential within the field, examining both new and understudied social policies to map out a comprehensive agenda for future research.

Book Migrants    Attitudes and the Welfare State

Download or read book Migrants Attitudes and the Welfare State written by Karen N. Breidahl and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing two major surveys of 14 different migrant groups connected to Danish register data, this insightful book explores what migrants think of the welfare state. It investigates the question of whether migrants assimilate to the ideas of extensive state intervention in markets and families or if they retain the attitudes and values that are prevalent in their countries of origin.

Book Public Opinion and the Welfare State

Download or read book Public Opinion and the Welfare State written by Ethan D. Knight and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Attitudes  Aspirations and Welfare

Download or read book Attitudes Aspirations and Welfare written by Peter Taylor-Gooby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries. The forum method yields new insights into how people frame social issues, their priorities and acceptable solutions. This is the first time democratic forums have been used as a research tool in this field. The contributors’ research show that most people recognize growing inequality, population ageing, paying for health care and pensions, social care and immigration as areas where the welfare state faces real challenges. The most striking findings are the high level of support across all countries for social investment, and the way justifications for this vary between welfare state regimes. The authors also explore key areas such as immigration and intergenerational differences. Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including politics, social policy and sociology, as well as policy-makers.

Book Why Americans Hate Welfare

Download or read book Why Americans Hate Welfare written by Martin Gilens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackling one of the most volatile issues in contemporary politics, Martin Gilens's work punctures myths and misconceptions about welfare policy, public opinion, and the role of the media in both. Why Americans Hate Welfare shows that the public's views on welfare are a complex mixture of cynicism and compassion; misinformed and racially charged, they nevertheless reflect both a distrust of welfare recipients and a desire to do more to help the "deserving" poor. "With one out of five children currently living in poverty and more than 100,000 families with children now homeless, Gilens's book is must reading if you want to understand how the mainstream media have helped justify, and even produce, this state of affairs." —Susan Douglas, The Progressive "Gilens's well-written and logically developed argument deserves to be taken seriously." —Choice "A provocative analysis of American attitudes towards 'welfare.'. . . [Gilens] shows how racial stereotypes, not white self-interest or anti-statism, lie at the root of opposition to welfare programs." -Library Journal

Book Why Welfare States Persist

Download or read book Why Welfare States Persist written by Clem Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care, but why are some far more generous than others? And why, in the face of globalization and fiscal pressures, has the welfare state not been replaced by another model? Reconsidering the myriad issues raised by such pressing questions, Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza contend here that public opinion has been an important, yet neglected, factor in shaping welfare states in recent decades. Analyzing data on sixteen countries, Brooks and Manza find that the preferences of citizens profoundly influence the welfare policies of their governments and the behavior of politicians in office. Shaped by slow-moving forces such as social institutions and collective memories, these preferences have counteracted global pressures that many commentators assumed would lead to the welfare state’s demise. Moreover, Brooks and Manza show that cross-national differences in popular support help explain why Scandinavian social democracies offer so much more than liberal democracies such as the United States and the United Kingdom. Significantly expanding our understanding of both public opinion and social policy in the world’s most developed countries, this landmark study will be essential reading for scholars of political economy, public opinion, and democratic theory.

Book Local Politics and Social Policy in China

Download or read book Local Politics and Social Policy in China written by Kerry E. Ratigan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how local actors shape social policy in China through distinct priorities and different approaches to governing.

Book The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare

Download or read book The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare written by Wim van Oorschot and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses new perspectives on the perceived popular deservingness of target groups of social services and benefits, offering new insights and analysis to this quickly developing field of welfare attitudes research. It provides an up-to-date state of the art in terms of concepts, theories, research methods and data. The book offers a multi-disciplinary view on deservingness attitudes, with contributions from sociology, political science, media studies and social psychology. It links up with central welfare state debates about the allocation of collective resources between groups with particular needs, and wider categories of need.