Welfare Attitudes over time of V4-, Northern- and Western European countries in ESS Round 4 and Round 8 data

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  • Ivana Piterová CSPS Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Jozef Výrost CSPS Slovak Academy of Sciences

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https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v5i1.483
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Welfare attitudes are a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. Social solidarity in the sense of interdependence is understood as the first dimension of welfare attitudes, while differentiation – in terms of how people usually make a distinction between groups that results in their attitude about whom to support – is understood as the second dimension. According to their preferred level of social solidarity and social differentiation, four clusters of people can be identified which represent four distinct types of welfare attitudes: social democratic, liberal, conservative, and radical. The aim of this paper is to analyse ESS fourth- (2008) and eighth-round data (2016) to compare three groups of countries: the Visegrad Group, represented by Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary; Northern Europe, represented by Norway, Sweden and Finland; and Western Europe, represented by Germany, France, and the UK, in terms of the level of social solidarity and social differentiation. Based on ESS data we outline that the differences in the welfare attitudes of V4, Western-, and Northern European countries are not so obvious. However, the analysis of the four types of welfare attitudes reveals some significant differences in interpersonal and institutional trust and basic human values, the description of which falls within the scope of this paper

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2019-05-03

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Piterová, I. and Výrost, J. 2019. Welfare Attitudes over time of V4-, Northern- and Western European countries in ESS Round 4 and Round 8 data. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. 5, 1 (May 2019). DOI:https://doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v5i1.483.

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Central European Societies on the Map of Europe