Nathalie Giger

The Risk of Social Policy? (eBook, PDF)

The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment and social policy performance in OECD countries

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Produktbeschreibung

The Risk of Social Policy uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice. It re-examines twenty elections in OECD countries to show if and how social policy issues drive elections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136849794
• Artikelnr.: 38273024

Autorenporträt

Nathalie Giger is a researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2.Welfare State Research: The Theoretical Background for
the Research Question 3. Electoral Research and Issue Voting: The
Theoretical Background for the Analyses 4. The Context: More Theoretical
Background for the Analyses 5. Research Strategy, Design and Method 6. The
Salience and Performance of Social Policy in Times of Permanent Austerity
7. The Impact of Social Policy Attitudes on the Incumbent Vote 8. Welfare
State Retrenchment and the Incumbent Performance on Social Policy 9.
Re-Election at Stake? The Impact of Social Policy on the Election Outcome
10. Discussion of Results and Conclusion