Determinants of Welfare Policy Attitudes
A Contextual Level Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2155408 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin S Abner, Kristin Abner (University of Illinois Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 466-497 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Spectrum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0273-2173 • E-ISSN: 1521-0707 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02732173.2011.574046 |
| OpenAlex | W2033938003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
Using the 2008 Chicago Area Study, this article tests how residential context plays a role in welfare policy attitudes, controlling for individual level characteristics. The contextual level variables of household public assistance use and minority concentration in respondents' neighborhoods are tested using multinomial logistic regression analysis. When including controls for education, income, political party, age, employment status, gender, and race, respondents residing in neighborhoods with a higher concentration of African Americans are more likely to endorse positive attitudes toward welfare policy. Additionally, an interaction effect is found between individual level income and household public assistance use in the ZIP code when predicting welfare policy attitudes. Lower income respondents residing in neighborhoods with higher household public assistance use are more likely to endorse positive attitudes toward welfare than their higher income neighbors. Given the exploratory nature of this study, the author concludes with implications for such findings and proposes future research
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Exploratory research · Geography · Household income · Logistic regression · Multinomial logistic regression · Public economics · Public policy · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Welfare · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
When Work Disappears
Welfare Reform
Tides of Consent
The Truly Disadvantaged
Public Opinion in America
Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?
Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe
Flat Broke with Children
Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects
Popular support for institutionalised solidarity
Do Neighborhood Economic Characteristics, Racial Composition, and Residential Stability Predict Perceptions of Stress Associated with the Physical and Social Environment? Findings from a Multilevel Analysis in Detroit
Do Middle-Class Students Perceive Poor Women and Poor Men Differently
Work and Economic Outcomes After Welfare
Race/Ethnicity and Beliefs about Wealth and Poverty
Public Attitudes toward Social Welfare Expenditures
Attitudes Toward the Poor and Attributions for Poverty
Group Loyalty and the Taste for Redistribution
Who Deserves Help? Who Must Provide
Success Stories
Gender Gap or Gender Gaps? New Perspectives on Support for Government Action and Policies
Racial Attitudes and Opposition to Welfare
Issue Frames and Group-Centrism in American Public Opinion
The Cambridge School and Leo Strauss
Explaining Contextual Effects on Vote Choice
Political Participation and the Neighborhood Social Context
Symbolism Versus Policy Learning
Opinion and Policy
The psychological basis of contextual effects
The Color of Welfare
Structure and Consistency in Public Opinion
Stratum Identification and Consciousness
Opposition to Race-Targeting
The Educational Benefits of Being Spaced Out
Neighborhood Poverty and African American Politics
Effects of Public Opinion on Policy
The Individual, Society, or Both? A Comparison of Black, Latino, and White Beliefs about the Causes of Poverty
The Determinants of Public Attitudes toward the Welfare State
Macro-Economic Problems, Beliefs about the Poor and Attitudes toward Welfare Spending
Race, Income, and Environmental Inequality in the United States
Assessing 'Neighborhood Effects
Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change
American Poverty Cause Beliefs and Structured Inequality Legitimation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |