Income maintenance policies in post-materialist Europe

Implications for pre-capitalist societies

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7974477
AutoresObioma M Iheduru (Fort Valley State University, autor correspondente), Obioma Iheduru (a Fort Valley State University , Fort Valley , Georgia , 31030 , USA)
Ano2005
Volume32
Fascículo1
Páginas149-157
Data de publicação2005-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitikon (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0258-9346 • E-ISSN: 1470-1014
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02589340500101857
OpenAlexW2080253782
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas13

Ronald Ingelhart's contention that post-materialist values arising from increases in GDP per capita ensue from greater affluence and economic security in industrialized countries is examined here. Using the Euro-Barometer dataset, this paper tests variations across eight European countries to determine if post-materialist values: (a) actually shaped citizens' attitudes toward social welfare policies hence its increases; (b) influenced ideological partisanship preferences and dominance of leftist parties; and (c) led to increases in transfer payments when left-of-centre parties are in control. The results of a pooled cross-sectional time series analysis indicate that economic development is negatively associated with social security expansion, but bears a positive relationship to post-materialist values. It also shows that post-materialist values exert only moderate, rather than ‘strong’ influences on ideological political preferences

Development economics · Dominance (genetics · Economics · Ideology · Left-wing politics · Market economy · Materialism · Per capita · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social security · Sociology · Welfare · Demography · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies