Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
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The Importance of Public Opinion in Democracies

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Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion

The Importance of Public Opinion in Democracies

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The world's richer democracies all provide such public benefits as pensions and health care, but why are some far more generous than others? And why, in the face of globalization and fiscal pressures, has the welfare state not been replaced by another model? Reconsidering the myriad issues raised by such pressing questions, Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza contend here that public opinion has been an important, yet neglected, factor in shaping welfare states in recent decades.Analyzing data on sixteen countries, Brooks and Manza find that the preferences of citizens profoundly influence the welfare policies of their governments and the behavior of politicians in office. Shaped by slow-moving forces such as social institutions and collective memories, these preferences have counteracted global pressures that many commentators assumed would lead to the welfare state's demise. Moreover, Brooks and Manza show that cross-national differences in popular support help explain why Scandinavian social democracies offer so much more than liberal democracies such as the United States and the United Kingdom.Significantly expanding our understanding of both public opinion and social policy in the world's most developed countries, this landmark study will be essential reading for scholars of political economy, public opinion, and democratic theory.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780226075952
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Sociología

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Figures and Tables
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: The Welfare State, Mass Opinion, and Embedded Preferences
  5. Chapter 1. Reaching for Mass Opinion
  6. Chapter 2. Do Policy Preferences Explain Welfare State Differences?
  7. Chapter 3. Retrenchment, Restructuring, Persistence
  8. Chapter 4. The Question of Convergence
  9. Chapter 5. Where Do Welfare State Preferences Come From?
  10. Chapter 6. The Patterning of Social Policy Responsiveness
  11. Chapter 7. Embedded Preferences and Welfare State Trajectories
  12. Notes
  13. References
  14. Index