Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change write by Staffan Kumlin. This book was released on 2022-07-11. Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater needs and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures-including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration-call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinnings of transfer systems and public services. And while welfare states long seemed resilient to growing challenges, it now seems clear that they are changing. Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change examines how political leaders and the public respond to reform pressures at a pivotal moment in a mass democracy: the election campaign. Do campaigns facilitate debate and attention to welfare state challenges? Do political parties present citizens with distinct choices as to how challenges might be met? Do leaders prepare citizens for the idea that some solutions may be painful? Do their messages have adaptive consequences for how the public perceives the need for reform? Do citizens adjust their normative support for welfare policies in the process? The answers to these questions affect how we understand welfare state change and representative democracy in an era of mounting challenges.
Pressure Without Pain
Pressure Without Pain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pressure Without Pain write by Achim Goerres. This book was released on 2020. Pressure Without Pain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do political leaders politicise welfare state "reform pressures", e.g. unemployment, ageing or globalisation, in election campaigns? Competing expectations range from no politicization at all to a clear and unbiased “coupling” between pressures and intended policy responses. Eighteen speeches held by prime ministerial candidates at election-year party congresses in Germany, Norway and Sweden (2000-2010) reveal an unfinished and biased problem-solution coupling. On the one hand, even in these affluent countries pressures are frequently politicised. On the other hand, leaders either cherry-pick less painful policy solutions, or refrain altogether from debating them. So, while citizens learn that the welfare state is pressured, they are not exposed to the full range of policies they increasingly have reason to expect after elections.
Election Campaign Agendas, Government Partisanship, and Welfare State Generosity
Election Campaign Agendas, Government Partisanship, and Welfare State Generosity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Election Campaign Agendas, Government Partisanship, and Welfare State Generosity write by Niklas Jakobsson. This book was released on 2017. Election Campaign Agendas, Government Partisanship, and Welfare State Generosity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although theoretically contentious, most empirical studies contend that electoral-political factors structure the welfare state. In practice, most studies concentrate on 'government partisanship', that is the ideological character of the government. We agree that politics matters but also seek to expand our understanding of what 'politics' should be taken to mean. Drawing on recent comparative research on agenda-setting, we study the impact of whether welfare state issues were broadly salient in the public sphere during the election campaign that produced the government. We formulate hypotheses about how such systemic campaign salience and government partisanship (separately and interactively) affect welfare generosity. We also consider how such effects might have changed, taking into account challenges to standard assumptions of representative democracy coming from the 'new politics of the welfare state' framework. We combine well-known, but updated, data on welfare state generosity and government partisanship, with original contextual data on campaign salience from 16 West European countries for the years 1980-2008. We find that campaigns matter but also that their impact has changed. During the first half of the examined period (the 1980s and early 1990s), it mainly served to facilitate government partisanship effects on the welfare state. More recently, big-time campaign attention to welfare state issues results in some retrenchment (almost) regardless of who forms the postelection government. This raises concerns about the democratic status of the politics of welfare state reform in Europe.
Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change
Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change write by Staffan Kumlin. This book was released on 2022-08-10. Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over three decades, mature European welfare states have been on their way into an austerity phase marked by greater needs and more insecure revenues. A number of reform pressures-including population ageing, unemployment, economic globalization, and increased migration-call into question the economic sustainability and normative underpinnings of transfer systems and public services. And while welfare states long seemed resilient to growing challenges, it now seems clear that they are changing. Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change examines how political leaders and the public respond to reform pressures at a pivotal moment in a mass democracy: the election campaign. Do campaigns facilitate debate and attention to welfare state challenges? Do political parties present citizens with distinct choices as to how challenges might be met? Do leaders prepare citizens for the idea that some solutions may be painful? Do their messages have adaptive consequences for how the public perceives the need for reform? Do citizens adjust their normative support for welfare policies in the process? The answers to these questions affect how we understand welfare state change and representative democracy in an era of mounting challenges.
The Welfare State in Transition
The Welfare State in Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Welfare State in Transition write by Norman Johnson. This book was released on 1987. The Welfare State in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on welfare states in capitalist societies, The Welfare State in Transition carries forward the debate on pluralism, identifying and discussing the problems involved in transferring responsibility for welfare services from the state to the other three sectors.
