Electoral competition and the welfare state
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6407210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christoffer Green-Pedersen (0000-0001-7153-9634, Aarhus University), Carsten Jensen (0000-0002-4346-031X, Aarhus University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 803-823 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402382.2019.1565736 |
| OpenAlex | W2914000859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 38 |
The article investigates how parties compete over the welfare state by emphasising specific welfare state issues. The core argument is that two issue-specific factors determine how much parties emphasise individual welfare state issues: the character of policy problems related to the policy issues and the type of social risks involved. To test the argument, a new large-N dataset is employed, with election manifestos from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The dataset contains information on how much parties have talked about health care, education, and labour market protection in national elections since 1980. With the data at hand, it is possible to provide the first systematic investigation of how parties compete for votes over the welfare state. The approach here is able to explain the empirical fact that health care is consistently receiving increased attention everywhere, while particularly labour market protection has witnessed a decline in attention
Argument (complex analysis · Competition (biology · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Social policy · Social Welfare · State (computer science · Welfare · Welfare state · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Global Health Care Issues · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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The Deservingness Heuristic and the Politics of Health Care
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |