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Sophie's choice: social attitudes to welfare state retrenchment in bailed-out Portugal
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posted on 2015-04-13, 13:53 authored by Laura ValadezLaura Valadez, F. Carreira da SilvaThis article examines social attitudes towards social rights in Portugal. It utilizes original survey data from 2013 to study the distribution of welfare attitudes in a context of economic austerity and welfare retrenchment. The main argument is that there are at least two sources of preference-formation regarding public social provision: one is universalistic (or needs-based), the other is contributory. These two logics frame choices concerning the future of the welfare state in Portugal. We explore the determinants of this choice through three hypotheses: dualization between insiders and outsiders (H1); the type of welfare regime (H2), and social rights consciousness (H3). Our findings suggest that choice between universalistic and contributory models is not impervious to macro-institutional factors and labour market performance. The paper’s main contribution, however, is to empirically demonstrate that this choice is significantly shaped by pre-existing understandings of social rights in Portugal, namely its politically contested character.
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- Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP)
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European SocietiesVolume
17Issue
3Pages
351 - 371Citation
VALADEZ, L. and CARREIRA DA SILVA, F., 2015. Sophie's choice: social attitudes to welfare state retrenchment in bailed-out Portugal. European Societies, 17(3), pp.351-371.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015-04-27Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in European Societies on 29 Apr 2015, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2015.1035299ISSN
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