Welfare State Attitudes

Abstract

This panel explores public attitudes related to the welfare state. How do citizens position themselves relative to the tough trade-offs involved when governments allocate scarce resources? How do they make sense of the prevailing social policy discourse? How have welfare attitudes changed in the course of the twenty-first century?

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