TY - JOUR
T1 - Regimes, Social Risks and the Welfare Mix
T2 - Unpacking Attitudes to Pensions and Childcare in Germany and the UK Through Deliberative Forums
AU - Taylor-Gooby, Peter
AU - Heuer, Jan-Ocko
AU - Chung, Heejung
AU - LERUTH, Benjamin
AU - Mau, Steffen
AU - Zimmermann, Katharina
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the NORFACE Welfare State Futures programme for this project under grant: 462-14-050.
Publisher Copyright:
© Cambridge University Press 2019.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Modern welfare regimes rest on a range of actors – state, market, family/households, employers and charities – but austerity programmes diminish the contribution of the state. While changes in this ‘welfare mix’ require support from the population, attitude studies have focused mainly on people’s views on state responsibilities, using welfare regime theory to explain differences. This paper contributes to our understanding of the welfare mix by including other providers such as the market, the family or employers, and also introduces social risk theories, contrasting new and old risks. Regime theory implies differences will persist over time, but risk theory suggests that growing similarities in certain risks may tend to promote international convergence. This article examines attitudes to the roles of state, market, family, charity/community and employer for pension and childcare in Germany and the UK. We collected data using deliberative forums, a new method in social policy research that allows citizens space to pursue extended lightly moderated discussion and permits researchers to analyse people’s justifications for their attitudes. Our research indicated patterns of convergence especially in preferences for childcare, but that regime predominates in people’s justifications for their attitudes: regime differences in attitudes are resilient.
AB - Modern welfare regimes rest on a range of actors – state, market, family/households, employers and charities – but austerity programmes diminish the contribution of the state. While changes in this ‘welfare mix’ require support from the population, attitude studies have focused mainly on people’s views on state responsibilities, using welfare regime theory to explain differences. This paper contributes to our understanding of the welfare mix by including other providers such as the market, the family or employers, and also introduces social risk theories, contrasting new and old risks. Regime theory implies differences will persist over time, but risk theory suggests that growing similarities in certain risks may tend to promote international convergence. This article examines attitudes to the roles of state, market, family, charity/community and employer for pension and childcare in Germany and the UK. We collected data using deliberative forums, a new method in social policy research that allows citizens space to pursue extended lightly moderated discussion and permits researchers to analyse people’s justifications for their attitudes. Our research indicated patterns of convergence especially in preferences for childcare, but that regime predominates in people’s justifications for their attitudes: regime differences in attitudes are resilient.
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UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/regimes-social-risks-welfare-mix-unpacking-attitudes-pensions-childcare-germany-uk-through-deliberat
U2 - 10.1017/S004727941800079X
DO - 10.1017/S004727941800079X
M3 - Article
SN - 1469-7823
VL - 49
SP - 61
EP - 79
JO - Journal of Social Policy
JF - Journal of Social Policy
IS - 1
ER -