The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare and Welfare Deservingness

Wim van Oorschot; Femke Roosma

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Chapter 1: The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare and Welfare Deservingness

Wim van Oorschot

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Femke Roosma

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Category:: Monograph Chapter

Published:: 29 Sep 2017

Page Range:: 3–34

Collection:: Social and Political Science 2017

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785367212.00010

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The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare

Edited by

Wim van Oorschot

Femke Roosma

Bart Meuleman

, and

Tim Reeskens

Monograph Book

Published:: 29 Sep 2017

Print ISBN:: 9781785367205

eISBN:: 9781785367212

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785367212

Pages:: 384

Collection:: Social and Political Science 2017

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Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
PART I: Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare and Welfare Deservingness
PART II: Popular Ranking and Weighing of Deservingness
- Chapter 2: A Universal Rank Order of Deservingness? Geographical, Temporal and Social-Structural Comparisons
- Chapter 3: The Relative Importance of Welfare Deservingness Criteria
PART III: The Cognitive Basis of Popular Deservingness Opinions
- Chapter 4: False Beliefs and the Perceived Deservingness of Social Security Benefit Claimants
- Chapter 5: Negative Attitudes towards Welfare Claimants: The Importance of Unconscious Bias
PART IV: Media Frames of (Un)deservingness
- Chapter 6: Are Visual Depictions of Poverty in the US Gendered and Racialized?
- Chapter 7: The Varying Faces of Poverty and Deservingness in Dutch Print Media
PART V: The National Context of Deservingness Opinions
- Chapter 8: How Welfare Reforms Influence Public Opinion Regarding Welfare Deservingness: Evidence from Dutch Time-Series Data, 1975–2006
- Chapter 9: Making Deservingness of the Unemployed Conditional: Changes in Public Support for the Conditionality of Unemployment Benefits
PART VI: Obligations of Benefit Claimants
- Chapter 10: The Deservingness Logic Applied to Public Opinions Concerning Work Obligations for Benefit Claimants
PART VII: Deservingness Opinions among Bureaucrats and Policymakers
PART VIII: Deservingness of Migrants
- Chapter 14: Us versus Them: Examining the Perceived Deservingness of Minority Groups in the British Welfare State Using a Survey Experiment
- Chapter 15: Leap of Faith or Judgment of Deservingness? Generalized Trust, Trust in Immigrants and Support for the Welfare State
PART IX: Deservingness of the Rich
- Chapter 16: They’re Not Worthy: The Perceived Deservingness of the Rich and its Connection to Policy Preferences
- Chapter 17: Do the Rich Deserve a Tax Cut? Public Images, Deservingness Criteria and Americans’ Tax Policy Preferences
PART X: Conclusions
- Chapter 18: Evaluating the Fruitfulness of Deservingness Theory
Author Index
Subject Index

Subjects
- Politics and Public Policy
  - Public Administration and Management
- Sociology and Social Policy
  - Economics of Social Policy
  - Welfare States

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