Inequality is on the rise: gains have been concentrated with a small elite, while most have
seen their fortunes stagnate or fall. Despite what scholars and journalists consider a …

To have knowledge of people's welfare attitudes and to understand their causes and
consequences is generally relevant for social policy experts as it provides them with …

" This book is the final product of a five-year project funded by the European Research
Council (ERC) entitled" Investing in Education in Europe: Attitudes, Politics and …

One proposition of the popular median-voter hypothesis is a positive relationship between
demand for redistribution and levels of inequality. However, empirical evidence of this …

Over two decades ago, Korpi and Palme (1998) published one of the most influential papers
in the history of social policy discipline, in which they put forward a “paradox of …

The study of policy feedback on public attitudes and policy preferences has become a
growing area of research in recent years. Scholars in the tradition of Pierson usually argue …

This article investigates whether self-interest as compared with values or ideological
dispositions shapes individual attitudes towards the welfare state. Causal interpretations of …

We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people's lives, but a much weaker
sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes …

Seminal models in political economy imply that rising economic inequality should lead to
growing public demand for redistribution. Yet, existing empirical evidence on this link is both …

This paper provides an overview over the application of mixed models (multilevel models) to
comparative survey data where the context units of interest are countries. Such analyses …