There is a large and growing literature on welfare state attitudes, most of which is built on random-sample population surveys with standardised closed-question items. This article criticises the existing survey instruments, especially those that are used within the International Social Survey...

Im deutschen Wohlfahrtsstaat findet eine intergenerationale Umverteilung statt, welche wegen der gesellschaftlichen Alterung angepasst werden muss, so dass Generationenverhältnisse politisch relevant werden. Wie nehmen Bürger den Sozialstaat und Generationenverhältnisse in der alternden...

This chapter presents an analysis of the impacts of family policy regimes and of family solidarity on young people’s attitudes towards public childcare across 21 advanced industrial democracies. We test these explanations by applying binary logit regressions to the ISSP Social Networks II...

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...

When faced with the necessity of reforming welfare states in ageing societies, politicians tend to demand more solidarity between generations because they assume that reforms require sacrifices from older people. Political economy models, however, do not investigate such a mechanism of...

Welfare states are exposed to a host of cost-inducing “reform pressures.” An experiment implemented in Germany, Norway, and Sweden tests how various reform pressure frames matter for perceptions about the future financial sustainability of the welfare state. Such perceptions have been shown...