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 …

Fifty years after Feagin's pioneering 1972 study, we present a systematic review of the
measurement of attributions for poverty and economic inequality. We conducted a search for …

Employing new and original survey data collected in three waves (April/May and November
2020 as well as May 2021) in Germany, this paper studies the dynamics of individual-level …

The COVID-19 pandemic represents an enormous challenge for healthcare systems around
the globe. Using original panel survey data for the case of Germany, this article studies how …

In 2020/2021, the EU and its member states had to tackle the largest shock of the twenty-first
century yet, the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 led to an unprecedented health and …

This study aims to understand how willingness to help people in poverty and the agreement
with providing government aid are connected to emotions and attributional processes, in a …

The main aim of the article is to outline welfare sociology as a potential sub-discipline of
sociology and to discuss the issues of broadly defined social welfare. While in contemporary …

The association of societal‐level structural factors with stereotypes and stigma can be
examined using the stereotype content model (SCM). The main aim of the current study was …

This article examines the role individuals' basic values about responsibility, uncertainty and
child rights, have on willingness to accept state intervention in a family in a potential child …

The shape and scope of the welfare state in individual countries have been under
consideration since the late 1970s. However, since the publication of The Three Worlds of …