Jan Mewes
Biographic Data
| ID | 286266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Mewes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mewes |
| SIGNATURE | MEWES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Umeå University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4974-2956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 278 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Welfare-state selectivity, universality, and social trust in Europe, 2002–2019: Bringing deservingness back in
Social trust is a moral resource with a normatively highly desirable pay-off. Previous research argues that universal welfare state programmes ‘make’ social trust whereas means-testing programmes ‘break’ it. Despite its important implications for welfare-state design, comparative longitudinal evidence for this hypothesis is scarce. To test whether within-country changes in social trust are associated with within-country changes in total, means-te…
Can Bureaucrats Break Trust? Testing Cultural and Institutional Theories of Trust with Chinese Panel Data
What is the relationship between trust and the quality of political institutions in a society? According to an influential cultural perspective, social trust-the belief that most people can be trusted-is a value inculcated during individuals' formative years, and remains fixed afterward. A second perspective holds that social trust reflects experiences throughout the life course, particularly interactions with public institutions and officials. T…
Experiences matter: A longitudinal study of individual-level sources of declining social trust in the United States
The US has experienced a substantial decline in social trust in recent decades. Surprisingly few studies analyze whether individual-level explanations can account for this decrease. We use three-wave panel data from the General Social Survey (2006-2014) to study the effects of four possible individual-level sources of changes in social trust: job loss, social ties, income, and confidence in political institutions. Findings from fixed-effects line…
Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey
There has been an abundance of research discussing the health implications of generalised trust and happiness over the past two decades. Both attitudes have been touted as independent predictors of morbidity and mortality, with strikingly similar trajectories and biological pathways being hypothesised. To date, however, neither trust nor happiness have been considered simultaneously as predictors of mortality. This study, therefore, aims to inves…
Trust and all-cause mortality: A multilevel study of US General Social Survey data (1978–2010)
BACKGROUND: Within public health research, generalised trust has been considered an independent predictor of morbidity and mortality for over two decades. However, there are no population-based studies that have scrutinised both contextual-level and individual-level effects of generalised trust on all-cause mortality. We, therefore, aim to investigate such associations by using pooled nationally representative US General Social Survey (GSS) data …
Self-rated health, generalized trust, and the Affordable Care Act: A US panel study, 2006-2014
Previous research shows that generalized trust, the belief that most people can be trusted, is conducive to people's health. However, only recently have longitudinal studies suggested an additional reciprocal pathway from health back to trust. Drawing on a diverse body of literature that shows how egalitarian social policy contributes to the promotion of generalized trust, we hypothesize that this other 'reverse' pathway could be sensitive to hea…
Gen(d)eralized Trust: Women, Work, and Trust in Strangers
This article deals with the question as to whether gender equality in labour force participation affects generalized trust. Following the seminal work of Rothstein and Uslaner, a first hypothesis maintains that gender employment equality positively impacts generalized trust. Based on insights from intergroup contact theory and the affect theory of social exchange, a second hypothesis argues that the relationship between gender employment equality…
Globalization, socio-economic status and welfare chauvinism: European perspectives on attitudes toward the exclusion of immigrants
This article addresses the question of whether globalization impacts individual preferences to exclude immigrants from national welfare systems (‘welfare chauvinism’). Intergroup contact theory and arguments from the ‘new cosmopolitanism’ debate suggest that cross-border social contacts (‘social globalization’) foster a willingness to include and accept newcomers. However, group conflict theory suggests that trade openness (‘economic globalizatio…
Unraveling Working-Class Welfare Chauvinism
Contested Welfare States: Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond
This book analyses people's attitudes toward welfare policies across Europe, and offers a novel comparison with the United States. Occupied with normative orientations toward the redistribution of resources and public policies aimed at ameliorating adverse conditions, the book focusses on the interplay between individual welfare attitudes and behaviour, institutional contexts, and structural variables. It provides essential input into the compara…
Unraveling Working-class Welfare Chauvinism
What determines subjective socio-economic insecurity? Context and class in comparative perspective
The phenomenon of socio-economic insecurity is widely discussed in contemporary public and academic discourse. However, it is unclear how objective socio-economic and institutional conditions affect subjective feelings of insecurity. Based on a review of the relevant literature, we hypothesize that objective contextual factors of labour market characteristics, levels of social protection and levels of internationalization and globalization exacer…
Managing Ethnic Diversity: Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective
Horizontal Europeanisation in Contextual Perspective
In the current discourse it is frequently stated that in the course of European integration and globalisation we witness more intensified and more frequent transactions spanning across national borders. These assumptions relate not only to transactions in the economic sphere or to forms of political co-operation, but to the individual lifeworlds as well. Yet concerning the latter dimension, research into the patterns and dynamics of interpersonal…
Die Produktion sozialer Sicherheit: Beschäftigungssicherheit, Einkommenssicherung und gesundheitliche Versorgung in ländervergleichender Perspektive
Ungleiche Netzwerke – Vernetzte Ungleichheit: Persönliche Beziehungen im Kontext von Bildung und Status
Bei dem vorliegenden Text handelt es sich um eine leicht überarbeitete Version meiner Dissertation, die im Mai 2009 an der Universität Bremen angenommen wurde. Die Arbeit entstand im Rahmen meiner Bes
Ungleiche Transnationalisierung
Das in der Öffentlichkeit oft vorgebrachte Unbehagen über die Globalisierung rührt zum Teil daher, dass zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Publikationen die Frage nach der akteursbezogenen Verantwortlichkeit für die zunehmend grenzüberschreitend ausgerichtete Verflechtung sozialer Handlungszusammenhänge ausklammern. Die in diesem Zusammenhang vorgebrachte Kritik richtet sich vor allem gegen solche Darstellungen der gesellschaftlichen Denationalisierung…
Cosmopolitan attitudes through transnational social practices
Within the scope of the debate surrounding globalization, ever increasing attention is being directed to the growth of border-crossing social relations and the emergence of transnational social spaces on the micro-level. In particular, the question of how these border-crossing interrelations influence the attitudes and values of the people involved causes some controversy. Some assume that the increasing trans-nationalization of social relations …
Transnationale soziale Beziehungen. Eine Kartographie der deutschen Bevölkerung
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 203 - 222
Globalization, socio-economic status and welfare chauvinism: European perspectives on attitudes toward the exclusion of immigrants
This article addresses the question of whether globalization impacts individual preferences to exclude immigrants from national welfare systems (‘welfare chauvinism’). Intergroup contact theory and arguments from the ‘new cosmopolitanism’ debate suggest that cross-border social contacts (‘social globalization’) foster a willingness to include and accept newcomers. However, group conflict theory suggests that trade openness (‘economic globalizatio…
Cosmopolitan attitudes through transnational social practices
Within the scope of the debate surrounding globalization, ever increasing attention is being directed to the growth of border-crossing social relations and the emergence of transnational social spaces on the micro-level. In particular, the question of how these border-crossing interrelations influence the attitudes and values of the people involved causes some controversy. Some assume that the increasing trans-nationalization of social relations …
What determines subjective socio-economic insecurity? Context and class in comparative perspective
The phenomenon of socio-economic insecurity is widely discussed in contemporary public and academic discourse. However, it is unclear how objective socio-economic and institutional conditions affect subjective feelings of insecurity. Based on a review of the relevant literature, we hypothesize that objective contextual factors of labour market characteristics, levels of social protection and levels of internationalization and globalization exacer…
Experiences matter: A longitudinal study of individual-level sources of declining social trust in the United States
The US has experienced a substantial decline in social trust in recent decades. Surprisingly few studies analyze whether individual-level explanations can account for this decrease. We use three-wave panel data from the General Social Survey (2006-2014) to study the effects of four possible individual-level sources of changes in social trust: job loss, social ties, income, and confidence in political institutions. Findings from fixed-effects line…
Horizontal Europeanisation in Contextual Perspective
In the current discourse it is frequently stated that in the course of European integration and globalisation we witness more intensified and more frequent transactions spanning across national borders. These assumptions relate not only to transactions in the economic sphere or to forms of political co-operation, but to the individual lifeworlds as well. Yet concerning the latter dimension, research into the patterns and dynamics of interpersonal…
Gen(d)eralized Trust: Women, Work, and Trust in Strangers
This article deals with the question as to whether gender equality in labour force participation affects generalized trust. Following the seminal work of Rothstein and Uslaner, a first hypothesis maintains that gender employment equality positively impacts generalized trust. Based on insights from intergroup contact theory and the affect theory of social exchange, a second hypothesis argues that the relationship between gender employment equality…
Self-rated health, generalized trust, and the Affordable Care Act: A US panel study, 2006-2014
Previous research shows that generalized trust, the belief that most people can be trusted, is conducive to people's health. However, only recently have longitudinal studies suggested an additional reciprocal pathway from health back to trust. Drawing on a diverse body of literature that shows how egalitarian social policy contributes to the promotion of generalized trust, we hypothesize that this other 'reverse' pathway could be sensitive to hea…
Can Bureaucrats Break Trust? Testing Cultural and Institutional Theories of Trust with Chinese Panel Data
What is the relationship between trust and the quality of political institutions in a society? According to an influential cultural perspective, social trust-the belief that most people can be trusted-is a value inculcated during individuals' formative years, and remains fixed afterward. A second perspective holds that social trust reflects experiences throughout the life course, particularly interactions with public institutions and officials. T…
Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey
There has been an abundance of research discussing the health implications of generalised trust and happiness over the past two decades. Both attitudes have been touted as independent predictors of morbidity and mortality, with strikingly similar trajectories and biological pathways being hypothesised. To date, however, neither trust nor happiness have been considered simultaneously as predictors of mortality. This study, therefore, aims to inves…
Trust and all-cause mortality: A multilevel study of US General Social Survey data (1978–2010)
BACKGROUND: Within public health research, generalised trust has been considered an independent predictor of morbidity and mortality for over two decades. However, there are no population-based studies that have scrutinised both contextual-level and individual-level effects of generalised trust on all-cause mortality. We, therefore, aim to investigate such associations by using pooled nationally representative US General Social Survey (GSS) data …
Transnationale soziale Beziehungen. Eine Kartographie der deutschen Bevölkerung
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 203 - 222
Ungleiche Netzwerke – Vernetzte Ungleichheit: Persönliche Beziehungen im Kontext von Bildung und Status
Bei dem vorliegenden Text handelt es sich um eine leicht überarbeitete Version meiner Dissertation, die im Mai 2009 an der Universität Bremen angenommen wurde. Die Arbeit entstand im Rahmen meiner Bes
Die Produktion sozialer Sicherheit: Beschäftigungssicherheit, Einkommenssicherung und gesundheitliche Versorgung in ländervergleichender Perspektive
Transnationale soziale Beziehungen. Eine Kartographie der deutschen Bevölkerung
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 203 - 222
Ungleiche Transnationalisierung
Das in der Öffentlichkeit oft vorgebrachte Unbehagen über die Globalisierung rührt zum Teil daher, dass zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Publikationen die Frage nach der akteursbezogenen Verantwortlichkeit für die zunehmend grenzüberschreitend ausgerichtete Verflechtung sozialer Handlungszusammenhänge ausklammern. Die in diesem Zusammenhang vorgebrachte Kritik richtet sich vor allem gegen solche Darstellungen der gesellschaftlichen Denationalisierung…
Cosmopolitan attitudes through transnational social practices
Within the scope of the debate surrounding globalization, ever increasing attention is being directed to the growth of border-crossing social relations and the emergence of transnational social spaces on the micro-level. In particular, the question of how these border-crossing interrelations influence the attitudes and values of the people involved causes some controversy. Some assume that the increasing trans-nationalization of social relations …
Ungleiche Netzwerke – Vernetzte Ungleichheit: Persönliche Beziehungen im Kontext von Bildung und Status
Bei dem vorliegenden Text handelt es sich um eine leicht überarbeitete Version meiner Dissertation, die im Mai 2009 an der Universität Bremen angenommen wurde. Die Arbeit entstand im Rahmen meiner Bes
Horizontal Europeanisation in Contextual Perspective
In the current discourse it is frequently stated that in the course of European integration and globalisation we witness more intensified and more frequent transactions spanning across national borders. These assumptions relate not only to transactions in the economic sphere or to forms of political co-operation, but to the individual lifeworlds as well. Yet concerning the latter dimension, research into the patterns and dynamics of interpersonal…
Die Produktion sozialer Sicherheit: Beschäftigungssicherheit, Einkommenssicherung und gesundheitliche Versorgung in ländervergleichender Perspektive
Unraveling Working-Class Welfare Chauvinism
Contested Welfare States: Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond
This book analyses people's attitudes toward welfare policies across Europe, and offers a novel comparison with the United States. Occupied with normative orientations toward the redistribution of resources and public policies aimed at ameliorating adverse conditions, the book focusses on the interplay between individual welfare attitudes and behaviour, institutional contexts, and structural variables. It provides essential input into the compara…
Unraveling Working-class Welfare Chauvinism
What determines subjective socio-economic insecurity? Context and class in comparative perspective
The phenomenon of socio-economic insecurity is widely discussed in contemporary public and academic discourse. However, it is unclear how objective socio-economic and institutional conditions affect subjective feelings of insecurity. Based on a review of the relevant literature, we hypothesize that objective contextual factors of labour market characteristics, levels of social protection and levels of internationalization and globalization exacer…
Managing Ethnic Diversity: Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective
Globalization, socio-economic status and welfare chauvinism: European perspectives on attitudes toward the exclusion of immigrants
This article addresses the question of whether globalization impacts individual preferences to exclude immigrants from national welfare systems (‘welfare chauvinism’). Intergroup contact theory and arguments from the ‘new cosmopolitanism’ debate suggest that cross-border social contacts (‘social globalization’) foster a willingness to include and accept newcomers. However, group conflict theory suggests that trade openness (‘economic globalizatio…
Gen(d)eralized Trust: Women, Work, and Trust in Strangers
This article deals with the question as to whether gender equality in labour force participation affects generalized trust. Following the seminal work of Rothstein and Uslaner, a first hypothesis maintains that gender employment equality positively impacts generalized trust. Based on insights from intergroup contact theory and the affect theory of social exchange, a second hypothesis argues that the relationship between gender employment equality…
Self-rated health, generalized trust, and the Affordable Care Act: A US panel study, 2006-2014
Previous research shows that generalized trust, the belief that most people can be trusted, is conducive to people's health. However, only recently have longitudinal studies suggested an additional reciprocal pathway from health back to trust. Drawing on a diverse body of literature that shows how egalitarian social policy contributes to the promotion of generalized trust, we hypothesize that this other 'reverse' pathway could be sensitive to hea…
Trust and all-cause mortality: A multilevel study of US General Social Survey data (1978–2010)
BACKGROUND: Within public health research, generalised trust has been considered an independent predictor of morbidity and mortality for over two decades. However, there are no population-based studies that have scrutinised both contextual-level and individual-level effects of generalised trust on all-cause mortality. We, therefore, aim to investigate such associations by using pooled nationally representative US General Social Survey (GSS) data …
Trust, happiness and mortality: Findings from a prospective US population-based survey
There has been an abundance of research discussing the health implications of generalised trust and happiness over the past two decades. Both attitudes have been touted as independent predictors of morbidity and mortality, with strikingly similar trajectories and biological pathways being hypothesised. To date, however, neither trust nor happiness have been considered simultaneously as predictors of mortality. This study, therefore, aims to inves…
Experiences matter: A longitudinal study of individual-level sources of declining social trust in the United States
The US has experienced a substantial decline in social trust in recent decades. Surprisingly few studies analyze whether individual-level explanations can account for this decrease. We use three-wave panel data from the General Social Survey (2006-2014) to study the effects of four possible individual-level sources of changes in social trust: job loss, social ties, income, and confidence in political institutions. Findings from fixed-effects line…
Can Bureaucrats Break Trust? Testing Cultural and Institutional Theories of Trust with Chinese Panel Data
What is the relationship between trust and the quality of political institutions in a society? According to an influential cultural perspective, social trust-the belief that most people can be trusted-is a value inculcated during individuals' formative years, and remains fixed afterward. A second perspective holds that social trust reflects experiences throughout the life course, particularly interactions with public institutions and officials. T…
Welfare-state selectivity, universality, and social trust in Europe, 2002–2019: Bringing deservingness back in
Social trust is a moral resource with a normatively highly desirable pay-off. Previous research argues that universal welfare state programmes ‘make’ social trust whereas means-testing programmes ‘break’ it. Despite its important implications for welfare-state design, comparative longitudinal evidence for this hypothesis is scarce. To test whether within-country changes in social trust are associated with within-country changes in total, means-te…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Capital and Networks (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (5 works)