Guns versus butter’ in public opinion
The politicization of the warfare-welfare trade-off
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12524527 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefano Sacchi (0000-0002-1318-0253, Politecnico di Torino), Gregorio Buzzelli (0000-0001-8782-2776, Politecnico di Torino), Desmond Dinan (0000-0002-4844-3017, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-27 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501763.2025.2534663 |
| OpenAlex | W4412558438 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 87 |
Economics · International trade · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Welfare · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
The Formation of national States in Western Europe
The Theory of choice
The Boundaries of Welfare
Warfare and Welfare
The Rationalizing Voter
The Great Leveler
Restructuring Europe
The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America
Varieties of Capitalism
Recalibrating Europe’s Welfare Regimes
Automation Risk, Social Policy Preferences, and Political Participation
What Do Voters Want? Dimensions and Configurations in Individual-Level Preferences and Party Choice
Why Welfare States Persist
Does military expenditure crowd out health-care spending? Cross-country empirics
The Social Amplification of Risk
The Politics of Advanced Capitalism
Measuring public spending preferences using an interactive budgeting questionnaire
A new era of European Integration? Governance of labour market and social policy since the sovereign debt crisis
What is so wicked about wicked problems? A conceptual analysis and a research program
Making the difference in social Europe
World war and welfare legislation in western countries
The Warfare-Welfare Tradeoff
A Rational Theory of the Size of Government
The Cold War Economy
The Multidimensionality of Welfare State Attitudes
Social Investment, Redistribution or Basic Income? Exploring the Association Between Automation Risk and Welfare State Attitudes in Europe
Closer during crises? European identity during the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Politicization compared
Public opinion on policy and budgetary trade-offs in European welfare states
Political allegiance and European integration
Measuring Attitudes toward Public Spending Using a Multivariate Tax Summary Experiment
The three worlds of welfare capitalism
The impact of public opinion on voting and policymaking
Guns and Butter? Regime Competition and the Welfare State during the Cold War
Authoritarian values and the welfare state
Rally ’Round the Barrack
Attitudinal Consistency in Citizens’ Social Policy Preferences
Social Norm Change, Political Symbols, and Expression of Stigmatized Preferences
The American Public's Defense Spending Preferences in the Post-Cold War Era
Public opinion on welfare state recalibration in times of austerity
The Insecure American
War and the adoption of family allowances
Perceiving welfare state sustainability
Irresistible forces, immovable objects
Good intentions and Matthew effects
Multi-dimensional preferences for labour market reforms
Total war and the emergence of unemployment insurance in western countries
Representing Defense
The Acceptability of War and Support for Defense Spending
Are ideological and partisan affinities determining voters’ support of arms deliveries? Insights from a large-scale survey experiment in France and Germany
Class and social policy in the knowledge economy
The impact of the Second World War on postwar social spending
Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
The Public as Thermostat
Buttery Guns and Welfare Hawks
Heterogeneity in Perceptions of National Economic Conditions
Threats and the Public Constraint on Military Spending
Why Do Citizens Discount the Future? Public Opinion and the Timing of Policy Consequences
Beyond Positive and Negative
How do Economic Circumstances Determine Preferences? Evidence from Long-run Panel Data
The early Cold War and the Western welfare state
The State and Social Capital
Dilemmas in a general theory of planning
Social Norms and Economic Theory
Modeling spending preferences & public policy
Estimating the defense spending vote
Three worlds of austerity
The autonomous power of the state
Both Guns and Butter, or Neither
The Strength of Issues
Technology, war and the state
The Illusion of Choice
Defense Expenditures and National Well-being
Who Pays for Defense
Why Austerity? The Mass Politics of a Contested Policy
Polarity Reversal
How Unemployment Experience Affects Support for the Welfare State
Why No Trade-off between 'Guns and Butter'? Armed Forces and Social Spending in the Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1960-1993
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |