The traditional welfare state, which emerged as a response to industrialization, is not well
equipped to address the challenges of today's post‐industrial knowledge economies …

Even though political trust has been well studied so far in its structure, development and
conditions, there are hardly any analyses dealing with the important question of what …

The contribution of this chapter is to consider if and how social and political trust are affected
by policy outputs and outcomes related to the welfare state. In the following disussion, we …

When do governments pursue unpopular reform, such as cutting benefits? And when do
they engage in not-unpopular reform, such as activation? Current approaches in welfare …

Welfare states are exposed to a host of cost-inducing 'reform pressures'. An experiment
implemented in Germany, Norway and Sweden tests how various reform pressure frames …

Welfare states face pressures from various directions. This paper uses data from the 2008
European Social Survey to consider whether citizen attitudes will provide continuing support …

Recent studies of how European welfare systems are responding to current pressures agree
that welfare states display remarkable resilience. They are being reformed rather than …

This article tests the linkage between institutional configuration and social trust, highlighting
the role of the welfare states in coordinating interests among different labor market actors …

Momentous events in Western democracies have brought renewed attention to how various
aspects of government-controlled policy outputs and outcomes affect citizens' trust in politics …

The welfare state and political trust are among the more scrutinized topics in comparative
research on advanced industrial democracies. However, while impressive bodies of work …