Sharon Baute
Biographic Data
| ID | 279369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Baute |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Baute |
| SIGNATURE | BAUTE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2931-935X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Equal rights to move? Public attitudes towards the free movement of patients, students and workers in the EU
While the free movement of people is one of the cornerstones of the European integration project, a pressing question remains whether public support depends on who is moving. Against the backdrop of increasing debates on the development of a European Health Union, this study focuses on the case of patient mobility and compares support levels to those of student and worker mobility rights. To this end, the study draws on an original survey conduct…
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union
The distributive politics of the green transition: A conjoint experiment on EU climate change mitigation policy
In the fight against climate change, the European Union has developed a new growth strategy to transform Europe into the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. To support EU member states in their transition towards greener economies, climate change mitigation policies are being implemented at the EU-level. However, such policies can be designed in different ways, and gaining citizens' support is crucial for the political feasibility of the Eur…
Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy
This article examines popular explanations of health inequality and introduces a typology distinguishing between behavioural, biological, environmental, and healthcare attributions. Using data from an original survey among 6000 individuals in Germany, the findings reveal that explanations for the social gradient in health vary by income and political ideology. Lower-income groups primarily attribute health inequality to the healthcare system, whe…
Healthcare deservingness: How Risk Factors and Income Shape Responsibility Attribution for Health Outcomes and Healthcare Costs
Amidst the global surge in healthcare expenditures, there is a growing political and academic debate about individual versus collective responsibility for health and healthcare costs. This study explores the causal effects of health risks and income cues on citizens' attribution of responsibility for health outcomes and healthcare costs. An original vignette experiment was conducted among the German population. Those in need of medical treatment …
European Institutional Integration and the Educational Divide in Support for the European Union
Since the 1950s, the history of European integration unfolds as a unique social experiment, witnessing the transformation of a non-existent entity into an increasingly institutionalized force. This article delves into the consequences of this ongoing institutionalization on public attitudes towards the institution itself: the European Union (EU). We argue that as European institutional integration advanced, a divide in EU support between more and…
Mass Euroscepticism revisited: The role of distributive justice
This article advances research into mass Euroscepticism by investigating the role of distributive justice. Drawing on cross-national survey data from 23 countries, the study shows that perceived injustice of individual opportunities (i.e. educational and job opportunities) and outcomes (i.e. earnings) nourish Eurosceptic sentiments, independent of objective inequalities. However, the public response to distributive injustice varies across Europea…
Positional Deprivation and Support for Redistribution and Social Insurance in Europe
We argue that support for redistribution increases when one experiences “positional deprivation,” situations when one’s own income increases slower or decreases faster compared to that of others. This specific combination of economic suffering over-time and relative to others has effects beyond well-studied measures of suffering that are static and/or absolute in nature, such as income level. We empirically explore this hypothesis by using “objec…
Multi-level blame attribution and public support for EU welfare policies
Since the Eurozone crisis, intense political debate has resurfaced about deservingness judgements in European solidarity. To contribute to this debate, this article proposes a refined concept of ‘multi-level blame attribution’. It postulates that public support for EU-level welfare policies crucially depends on how citizens attribute responsibility for economic outcomes across different levels of agency. Results from an original public opinion su…
Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed
In recent decades, European welfare states have adopted demanding active labour market policies (ALMPs), aimed at increasing labour market participation through imposing stricter work-related obligations and benefit cuts in case of job offer rejection. This article investigates whether support for such demanding ALMPs is driven by risk perceptions of future unemployment and negative stereotypes about unemployed persons. Insights into the role of …
Citizens' expectations about social protection in multilevel governance: The interplay between national and supranational institutions
Two contrasting perspectives can be identified in the current literature on the relationship between European integration and the welfare state. On the one hand, the race to the bottom thesis presumes that welfare spending will be reduced to the lowest common denominator. On the other hand, the upward convergence thesis suggests that European integration supports and strengthens the capacities of national welfare states. This suggests that the co…
Conditional Generosity and Deservingness in Public Support for European Unemployment Risk Sharing
Previous research into public support for welfare solidarity often refers to the importance of ‘reciprocity’, which means that generous social benefits are supported if they are matched by credible commitments to contribute by those who can. The current article adds to this body of literature by providing novel empirical evidence on the roles of generosity and conditionality in support for European unemployment insurance programmes. Drawing on a …
EU health solidarity in times of crisis: Explaining public preferences towards EU risk pooling for medicines
The COVID-19 outbreak in Europe has brought attention to EU health policy as a focal point for solidarity, particularly as it concerns access to medicines. Against the backdrop of policy proposals for EU joint procurement of medicines, this article expands our understanding of public opinion towards this particular aspect of European integration. Drawing on data from a conjoint experiment in five EU countries, the study investigates the extent to…
Social resentment, blame attribution and Euroscepticism: The role of status insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness
This article investigates the relationship between social resentment and Euroscepticism. It argues that that populist parties mobilize the resentment of the losers of modernization by addressing new cultural and political cleavages as well as the issue of European integration. Using survey data from the Belgian National Election Study 2014, the study covers two research objectives. First, we investigate the role of feelings of resentment in citiz…
Public attitudes towards a European minimum income benefit: How (perceived) welfare state performance and expectations shape popular support
The economic crisis and the unequal degree to which it has affected European Union (EU) member states have fuelled the debate on whether the EU should take responsibility for the living standards of European citizens. The current article contributes to this debate by investigating for the first time public support for an EU-wide minimum income benefit scheme. Through an analysis of data from the European Social Survey 2016, our results reveal tha…
Welfare State Attitudes and Support for Social Europe: Spillover or Obstacle
This study investigates how support for Social Europe is related to citizens’ welfare attitudes. On the one hand, welfare attitudes can spill over from the national to the European level, given that Social Europe aims to achieve similar goals to those of national welfare states. On the other hand, support for the welfare state can be an obstacle, if citizens perceive the nation state and the European Union as competing or substituting governance …
Public Support for European Solidarity: Between Euroscepticism and EU Agenda Preferences
This article investigates public support for two types of EU‐wide solidarity that currently exist, namely member state solidarity (such as transfers to less developed and crisis‐hit countries) and transnational solidarity (such as granting cross‐border social rights to EU citizens). Drawing on data from the 2014 Belgian National Election Study, we find that opposition towards European integration – in particular regarding EU enlargement – reduces…
European integration as a threat to social security: Another source of Euroscepticism
This study investigates whether citizens' concerns about the EU's impact on social security are a distinct source of Euroscepticism. By analysing data from the European Values Study 2008, we show that citizens differentiate between domain-specific fears about European integration (i.e. about social security, national sovereignty, culture, payments and jobs), meaning that they cannot be reduced completely to a general fear about European integrati…
Measuring Attitudes Towards Social Europe: A Multidimensional Approach
Genderverschillen in professioneel zorggebruik in 25 Europese landen - Een onderzoek naar de impact van medicaliseringsattitudes en genderstratificatie
Gender differences in professional health service use in 25 European countries A study on the impact of medicalisation attitudes and gender stratification .In this paper we investigate the impact of gender stratification on the gender gap in both medicalisation attitudes and professional health care use. Furthermore, we examine to what extent medicalisation attitudes explain the gender gap in professional health care use. Using data from the seco…
Public Support for European Solidarity: Between Euroscepticism and EU Agenda Preferences
This article investigates public support for two types of EU‐wide solidarity that currently exist, namely member state solidarity (such as transfers to less developed and crisis‐hit countries) and transnational solidarity (such as granting cross‐border social rights to EU citizens). Drawing on data from the 2014 Belgian National Election Study, we find that opposition towards European integration – in particular regarding EU enlargement – reduces…
Measuring Attitudes Towards Social Europe: A Multidimensional Approach
Social resentment, blame attribution and Euroscepticism: The role of status insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness
This article investigates the relationship between social resentment and Euroscepticism. It argues that that populist parties mobilize the resentment of the losers of modernization by addressing new cultural and political cleavages as well as the issue of European integration. Using survey data from the Belgian National Election Study 2014, the study covers two research objectives. First, we investigate the role of feelings of resentment in citiz…
Public attitudes towards a European minimum income benefit: How (perceived) welfare state performance and expectations shape popular support
The economic crisis and the unequal degree to which it has affected European Union (EU) member states have fuelled the debate on whether the EU should take responsibility for the living standards of European citizens. The current article contributes to this debate by investigating for the first time public support for an EU-wide minimum income benefit scheme. Through an analysis of data from the European Social Survey 2016, our results reveal tha…
EU health solidarity in times of crisis: Explaining public preferences towards EU risk pooling for medicines
The COVID-19 outbreak in Europe has brought attention to EU health policy as a focal point for solidarity, particularly as it concerns access to medicines. Against the backdrop of policy proposals for EU joint procurement of medicines, this article expands our understanding of public opinion towards this particular aspect of European integration. Drawing on data from a conjoint experiment in five EU countries, the study investigates the extent to…
European integration as a threat to social security: Another source of Euroscepticism
This study investigates whether citizens' concerns about the EU's impact on social security are a distinct source of Euroscepticism. By analysing data from the European Values Study 2008, we show that citizens differentiate between domain-specific fears about European integration (i.e. about social security, national sovereignty, culture, payments and jobs), meaning that they cannot be reduced completely to a general fear about European integrati…
The distributive politics of the green transition: A conjoint experiment on EU climate change mitigation policy
In the fight against climate change, the European Union has developed a new growth strategy to transform Europe into the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. To support EU member states in their transition towards greener economies, climate change mitigation policies are being implemented at the EU-level. However, such policies can be designed in different ways, and gaining citizens' support is crucial for the political feasibility of the Eur…
Welfare State Attitudes and Support for Social Europe: Spillover or Obstacle
This study investigates how support for Social Europe is related to citizens’ welfare attitudes. On the one hand, welfare attitudes can spill over from the national to the European level, given that Social Europe aims to achieve similar goals to those of national welfare states. On the other hand, support for the welfare state can be an obstacle, if citizens perceive the nation state and the European Union as competing or substituting governance …
Positional Deprivation and Support for Redistribution and Social Insurance in Europe
We argue that support for redistribution increases when one experiences “positional deprivation,” situations when one’s own income increases slower or decreases faster compared to that of others. This specific combination of economic suffering over-time and relative to others has effects beyond well-studied measures of suffering that are static and/or absolute in nature, such as income level. We empirically explore this hypothesis by using “objec…
Multi-level blame attribution and public support for EU welfare policies
Since the Eurozone crisis, intense political debate has resurfaced about deservingness judgements in European solidarity. To contribute to this debate, this article proposes a refined concept of ‘multi-level blame attribution’. It postulates that public support for EU-level welfare policies crucially depends on how citizens attribute responsibility for economic outcomes across different levels of agency. Results from an original public opinion su…
Conditional Generosity and Deservingness in Public Support for European Unemployment Risk Sharing
Previous research into public support for welfare solidarity often refers to the importance of ‘reciprocity’, which means that generous social benefits are supported if they are matched by credible commitments to contribute by those who can. The current article adds to this body of literature by providing novel empirical evidence on the roles of generosity and conditionality in support for European unemployment insurance programmes. Drawing on a …
Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed
In recent decades, European welfare states have adopted demanding active labour market policies (ALMPs), aimed at increasing labour market participation through imposing stricter work-related obligations and benefit cuts in case of job offer rejection. This article investigates whether support for such demanding ALMPs is driven by risk perceptions of future unemployment and negative stereotypes about unemployed persons. Insights into the role of …
Mass Euroscepticism revisited: The role of distributive justice
This article advances research into mass Euroscepticism by investigating the role of distributive justice. Drawing on cross-national survey data from 23 countries, the study shows that perceived injustice of individual opportunities (i.e. educational and job opportunities) and outcomes (i.e. earnings) nourish Eurosceptic sentiments, independent of objective inequalities. However, the public response to distributive injustice varies across Europea…
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union
Healthcare deservingness: How Risk Factors and Income Shape Responsibility Attribution for Health Outcomes and Healthcare Costs
Amidst the global surge in healthcare expenditures, there is a growing political and academic debate about individual versus collective responsibility for health and healthcare costs. This study explores the causal effects of health risks and income cues on citizens' attribution of responsibility for health outcomes and healthcare costs. An original vignette experiment was conducted among the German population. Those in need of medical treatment …
European Institutional Integration and the Educational Divide in Support for the European Union
Since the 1950s, the history of European integration unfolds as a unique social experiment, witnessing the transformation of a non-existent entity into an increasingly institutionalized force. This article delves into the consequences of this ongoing institutionalization on public attitudes towards the institution itself: the European Union (EU). We argue that as European institutional integration advanced, a divide in EU support between more and…
Citizens' expectations about social protection in multilevel governance: The interplay between national and supranational institutions
Two contrasting perspectives can be identified in the current literature on the relationship between European integration and the welfare state. On the one hand, the race to the bottom thesis presumes that welfare spending will be reduced to the lowest common denominator. On the other hand, the upward convergence thesis suggests that European integration supports and strengthens the capacities of national welfare states. This suggests that the co…
Genderverschillen in professioneel zorggebruik in 25 Europese landen - Een onderzoek naar de impact van medicaliseringsattitudes en genderstratificatie
Gender differences in professional health service use in 25 European countries A study on the impact of medicalisation attitudes and gender stratification .In this paper we investigate the impact of gender stratification on the gender gap in both medicalisation attitudes and professional health care use. Furthermore, we examine to what extent medicalisation attitudes explain the gender gap in professional health care use. Using data from the seco…
Measuring Attitudes Towards Social Europe: A Multidimensional Approach
European integration as a threat to social security: Another source of Euroscepticism
This study investigates whether citizens' concerns about the EU's impact on social security are a distinct source of Euroscepticism. By analysing data from the European Values Study 2008, we show that citizens differentiate between domain-specific fears about European integration (i.e. about social security, national sovereignty, culture, payments and jobs), meaning that they cannot be reduced completely to a general fear about European integrati…
Welfare State Attitudes and Support for Social Europe: Spillover or Obstacle
This study investigates how support for Social Europe is related to citizens’ welfare attitudes. On the one hand, welfare attitudes can spill over from the national to the European level, given that Social Europe aims to achieve similar goals to those of national welfare states. On the other hand, support for the welfare state can be an obstacle, if citizens perceive the nation state and the European Union as competing or substituting governance …
Public Support for European Solidarity: Between Euroscepticism and EU Agenda Preferences
This article investigates public support for two types of EU‐wide solidarity that currently exist, namely member state solidarity (such as transfers to less developed and crisis‐hit countries) and transnational solidarity (such as granting cross‐border social rights to EU citizens). Drawing on data from the 2014 Belgian National Election Study, we find that opposition towards European integration – in particular regarding EU enlargement – reduces…
Public attitudes towards a European minimum income benefit: How (perceived) welfare state performance and expectations shape popular support
The economic crisis and the unequal degree to which it has affected European Union (EU) member states have fuelled the debate on whether the EU should take responsibility for the living standards of European citizens. The current article contributes to this debate by investigating for the first time public support for an EU-wide minimum income benefit scheme. Through an analysis of data from the European Social Survey 2016, our results reveal tha…
Social resentment, blame attribution and Euroscepticism: The role of status insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness
This article investigates the relationship between social resentment and Euroscepticism. It argues that that populist parties mobilize the resentment of the losers of modernization by addressing new cultural and political cleavages as well as the issue of European integration. Using survey data from the Belgian National Election Study 2014, the study covers two research objectives. First, we investigate the role of feelings of resentment in citiz…
Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed
In recent decades, European welfare states have adopted demanding active labour market policies (ALMPs), aimed at increasing labour market participation through imposing stricter work-related obligations and benefit cuts in case of job offer rejection. This article investigates whether support for such demanding ALMPs is driven by risk perceptions of future unemployment and negative stereotypes about unemployed persons. Insights into the role of …
Citizens' expectations about social protection in multilevel governance: The interplay between national and supranational institutions
Two contrasting perspectives can be identified in the current literature on the relationship between European integration and the welfare state. On the one hand, the race to the bottom thesis presumes that welfare spending will be reduced to the lowest common denominator. On the other hand, the upward convergence thesis suggests that European integration supports and strengthens the capacities of national welfare states. This suggests that the co…
Conditional Generosity and Deservingness in Public Support for European Unemployment Risk Sharing
Previous research into public support for welfare solidarity often refers to the importance of ‘reciprocity’, which means that generous social benefits are supported if they are matched by credible commitments to contribute by those who can. The current article adds to this body of literature by providing novel empirical evidence on the roles of generosity and conditionality in support for European unemployment insurance programmes. Drawing on a …
EU health solidarity in times of crisis: Explaining public preferences towards EU risk pooling for medicines
The COVID-19 outbreak in Europe has brought attention to EU health policy as a focal point for solidarity, particularly as it concerns access to medicines. Against the backdrop of policy proposals for EU joint procurement of medicines, this article expands our understanding of public opinion towards this particular aspect of European integration. Drawing on data from a conjoint experiment in five EU countries, the study investigates the extent to…
Mass Euroscepticism revisited: The role of distributive justice
This article advances research into mass Euroscepticism by investigating the role of distributive justice. Drawing on cross-national survey data from 23 countries, the study shows that perceived injustice of individual opportunities (i.e. educational and job opportunities) and outcomes (i.e. earnings) nourish Eurosceptic sentiments, independent of objective inequalities. However, the public response to distributive injustice varies across Europea…
Positional Deprivation and Support for Redistribution and Social Insurance in Europe
We argue that support for redistribution increases when one experiences “positional deprivation,” situations when one’s own income increases slower or decreases faster compared to that of others. This specific combination of economic suffering over-time and relative to others has effects beyond well-studied measures of suffering that are static and/or absolute in nature, such as income level. We empirically explore this hypothesis by using “objec…
Multi-level blame attribution and public support for EU welfare policies
Since the Eurozone crisis, intense political debate has resurfaced about deservingness judgements in European solidarity. To contribute to this debate, this article proposes a refined concept of ‘multi-level blame attribution’. It postulates that public support for EU-level welfare policies crucially depends on how citizens attribute responsibility for economic outcomes across different levels of agency. Results from an original public opinion su…
European Institutional Integration and the Educational Divide in Support for the European Union
Since the 1950s, the history of European integration unfolds as a unique social experiment, witnessing the transformation of a non-existent entity into an increasingly institutionalized force. This article delves into the consequences of this ongoing institutionalization on public attitudes towards the institution itself: the European Union (EU). We argue that as European institutional integration advanced, a divide in EU support between more and…
Equal rights to move? Public attitudes towards the free movement of patients, students and workers in the EU
While the free movement of people is one of the cornerstones of the European integration project, a pressing question remains whether public support depends on who is moving. Against the backdrop of increasing debates on the development of a European Health Union, this study focuses on the case of patient mobility and compares support levels to those of student and worker mobility rights. To this end, the study draws on an original survey conduct…
Democratic backsliding and support for public good provision in the European Union
The distributive politics of the green transition: A conjoint experiment on EU climate change mitigation policy
In the fight against climate change, the European Union has developed a new growth strategy to transform Europe into the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. To support EU member states in their transition towards greener economies, climate change mitigation policies are being implemented at the EU-level. However, such policies can be designed in different ways, and gaining citizens' support is crucial for the political feasibility of the Eur…
Health inequality attributions and support for healthcare policy
This article examines popular explanations of health inequality and introduces a typology distinguishing between behavioural, biological, environmental, and healthcare attributions. Using data from an original survey among 6000 individuals in Germany, the findings reveal that explanations for the social gradient in health vary by income and political ideology. Lower-income groups primarily attribute health inequality to the healthcare system, whe…
Healthcare deservingness: How Risk Factors and Income Shape Responsibility Attribution for Health Outcomes and Healthcare Costs
Amidst the global surge in healthcare expenditures, there is a growing political and academic debate about individual versus collective responsibility for health and healthcare costs. This study explores the causal effects of health risks and income cues on citizens' attribution of responsibility for health outcomes and healthcare costs. An original vignette experiment was conducted among the German population. Those in need of medical treatment …
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