Welfare Attitudes and Expressions of (Trans)national Solidarity
- Author(s)
- Anna Kurowska, Olga Eisele, Johannes M. Kiess
- Abstract
The article explores the extent to which Europeans’ welfare attitudes explain (trans)
national solidarity behavior. We set our analyses against the backdrop of the broader
debate of welfare state consequences: Does a strong welfare state that is considered
to take care of those in need diminish or strengthen citizens’ motivations to become
engaged in helping others? We distinguish individuals’ solidarity behavior toward others
within the welfare state, that is, citizens within one’s country, and outside the welfare
state community of the respondents’ particular country. We further distinguish
different others outside the welfare state, that is, between refugees, taking the refugee crisis in the European Union (EU) as a prime example, and citizens living in other countries—in EU countries and non-EU countries. As far as the main explanatory variables are concerned, we derive from the concept of “multidimensional welfare attitudes” and focus on five crucial dimensions of these attitudes, that is, welfare goals, range, degree, redistribution, and outcome. We draw on data collected within the EU project TransSOL and calculate a set of multilevel logistic regression models controlling for a wide range of individual (sociodemographic, economic, and political) variables. Overall, we observe that a “crowding in” effect, that is, higher support of the welfare state, goes in line with solidarity activity toward others including both “outsiders” and “insiders” of the national community.- Organisation(s)
- External organisation(s)
- Universität Siegen, University of Warsaw
- Journal
- American Behavioral Scientist
- Volume
- 63
- Pages
- 492-505
- No. of pages
- 14
- ISSN
- 0002-7642
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764218823843
- Publication date
- 04-2019
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 504007 Empirical social research
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies, Social Sciences(all), Education, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/welfare-attitudes-and-expressions-of-transnational-solidarity(151d8138-a3aa-4942-9be9-a931e194c2c7).html