The weakest link in welfare state legitimacy: European perceptions of moral and administrative failure in the targeting of social benefits KU Leuven
© The Author(s) 2014 In the field of welfare attitude research, generally studies examining critical attitudes toward the welfare state are rather limited. However, the existing studies find that people are most negative about the mis-targeting of welfare benefits – that is, people are particularly critical of the high overuse (misuse or fraud) and high underuse (non-take-up) of welfare benefits. This study contributes to the current literature ...