Social justice, legitimacy and the welfare state / edited by Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte.

Other author Mau, Steffen, 1968-
Other author Veghte, Benjamin.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Descriptionxviii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007002016
ISBN9780754649397 (alk. paper)
ISBN0754649393 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks JC 479 .S6216 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold