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The established outsider and the welfare state. Explaining welfare state attitudes from the dual perspective of Turkish and Moroccan Belgians. KU Leuven
In current times of economic recession and increased migration flows within Western societies, the relation between the welfare state and migration receives much attention in both popular and scholar debates. The tensions regarding the migration-welfare state relation revolve predominantly around the demarcation of welfare policies. In other words, who's in and who's out? These questions gave rise to the extensive investigation of peoples' ...
Welfare deservingness and welfare policy. New perspectives on popular deservingness opinions and their interaction with welfare state policies KU Leuven
In present times of 'permanent' austerity, in which various structural challenges -such as globalization, population ageing and mass migration- continue to threaten the financial sustainability and social legitimacy of modern welfare states, the issue of welfare deservingness is again high on the political agenda. Despite the considerable progress made in recent years by a growing body of research trying to improve our understanding of the ...
Welfare Deservingness and Welfare Policy. Popular Deservingness Opinions and their Interaction with Welfare State Policies. KU Leuven
In present times of ‘permanent’ austerity, in which various structural challenges -such as globalization, population ageing and mass migration-continue to threaten the financial sustainability and social legitimacy of modern welfare states, the issue of welfare deservingness is again high on the political agenda. Despite the considerable progress made in recent years by a growing body of research trying to improve our understanding of the ...
Welfare reform by stealth? Cash benefit recipiency data and its additional value to the understanding of welfare state change in Europe KU Leuven
Trends in social protection schemes have been one of the main subjects in comparative welfare state research, not least since the financial crisis and the austerity measures that many European countries implemented in its aftermath. One of the key debates in literature is about how to measure the extent of public welfare provision as an indicator of welfare state change. Many quantitative researchers have used macro-level data on programmatic ...