What drives partisan conflict and consensus on welfare state issues?

Ennser-Jedenastik, Laurenz

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dc.contributor.author	Ennser-Jedenastik, Laurenz	de
dc.date.accessioned	2021-10-08T09:10:09Z
dc.date.available	2021-10-08T09:10:09Z
dc.date.issued	2020	de
dc.identifier.issn	1469-7815	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/75139
dc.description.abstract	Left-right partisan conflict has been a key driver of welfare state expansion and retrenchment over time and across countries. Yet, we know very little about how left-right differences in party appeals vary across social policy domains. Why are some issues contentious while there is broad consensus on others? This paper starts from the simple premise that partisan conflict is a function of how popular a certain policy is. Based on this assumption, it argues that the left-right gap should be (1) larger for revenue-side issues than for expenditure-side issues, (2) larger for policies targeted at groups that are viewed as less deserving and (3) larger for more redistributive programs than less redistributive ones (e.g. means-tested versus earnings-related benefits). These expectations are tested on fine-grained policy data coded from 65 Austrian party manifestos issued between 1970 and 2017 (N = 18,219). The analysis strongly supports the revenue-expenditure hypothesis and the deservingness hypothesis, but not the redistribution hypothesis.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject.ddc	Political science	en
dc.subject.ddc	Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie	de
dc.subject.ddc	Social sciences, sociology, anthropology	en
dc.subject.other	manifestos; political parties; ZA7500: European Values Study 2017: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2017); European Social Survey Round 4 Data (2008). Data file edition 4.5.	de
dc.title	What drives partisan conflict and consensus on welfare state issues?	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	Journal of Public Policy
dc.publisher.country	GBR	de
dc.subject.classoz	politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur	de
dc.subject.classoz	Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture	en
dc.subject.classoz	Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Sozialpolitik	de
dc.subject.classoz	Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Social Policy	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Österreich	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Austria	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Parteipolitik	de
dc.subject.thesoz	party politics	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Sozialpolitik	de
dc.subject.thesoz	social policy	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Wohlfahrtsstaat	de
dc.subject.thesoz	welfare state	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Umverteilung	de
dc.subject.thesoz	redistribution	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Partei	de
dc.subject.thesoz	party	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politisches Programm	de
dc.subject.thesoz	political program	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politische Linke	de
dc.subject.thesoz	political left	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politische Rechte	de
dc.subject.thesoz	political right	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-75139-4
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0	en
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dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	1-21	de
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X20000240	de
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dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
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