Why welfare states persist [electronic resource] : the importance of public opinion in democracies / Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Studies in communication, media, and public opinionPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.Description: xii, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 320.51/3 22
LOC classification:
  • JC479 .B76 2007eb
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Contents:
Introduction : the welfare state, mass opinion, and embedded preferences -- Reaching for mass opinion -- Do policy preferences explain welfare state differences? -- Retrenchment, restructuring, persistence -- The question of convergence -- Where do welfare state preferences come from? -- The patterning of social policy responsiveness -- Embedded preferences and welfare state trajectories -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the welfare state, mass opinion, and embedded preferences -- Reaching for mass opinion -- Do policy preferences explain welfare state differences? -- Retrenchment, restructuring, persistence -- The question of convergence -- Where do welfare state preferences come from? -- The patterning of social policy responsiveness -- Embedded preferences and welfare state trajectories -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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