A steadily growing number of studies investigate how popular support for social policies
targeting particular groups is rooted in citizens' deservingness opinions. According to theory …

Since 2010 the UK has enacted radical welfare reforms that have led to greater poverty,
homelessness, indebtedness, and foodbank use. It has diverged from other European …

This important book builds a bridge between the literature on popular welfare deservingness
and social welfare policies. It examines the relationship between the two, exploring the close …

This article explores public preferences for European unemployment programs explicitly
discussed in actual policymaker debate. European policymakers have been considering …

The COVID-19 pandemic presents a unique opportunity to study how humans allocate
scarce resources in times of hardship. We study public preferences regarding who should …

We revisit a longstanding hypothesis that the public become more supportive of
redistributive policy as income inequality rises. Previous tests of this hypothesis using …

Universal Basic Income (UBI) reached political agendas as a proposal to radically reform
welfare systems, followed by scholarly interest in its public legitimacy. While surveys find UBI …

People support welfare policy if its beneficiaries are perceived as deserving of support. This
study found that individuals' cultural worldviews play a role in assessing the deservingness …

In recent decades, European welfare states have adopted demanding active labour market
policies (ALMPs), aimed at increasing labour market participation through imposing stricter …

In light of the ever‐growing shift towards activation in European welfare states, the present
article examines the relationship between citizens' welfare generosity (ie, support for social …