The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare
Author: Wim van Oorschot
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1785367218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book addresses new perspectives on the perceived popular deservingness of target groups of social services and benefits, offering new insights and analysis to this quickly developing field of welfare attitudes research. It provides an up-to-date state of the art in terms of concepts, theories, research methods and data. The book offers a multi-disciplinary view on deservingness attitudes, with contributions from sociology, political science, media studies and social psychology. It links up with central welfare state debates about the allocation of collective resources between groups with particular needs, and wider categories of need.