As economic inequality continues to rise, there is increased concern about both the
consequences of inequality and what can be done to reverse this trend. In the present …

Economic outcomes reflect an intricate mixture of people's internal dispositions and external
circumstances that are beyond their control. How, then, do people make sense of wealth and …

With growing inequality, the American dream is becoming less effective as a collective myth.
With its focus on material success, competition and self‐reliance, the intensified diffusion of …

A robust finding in the welfare state literature is that public support for the welfare state
differs widely across countries. Yet recent research on the psychology of welfare support …

Beyond the statistics that tend to dominate much public debate, a focus on the experience of
poverty, drawing on psychosocial analysis, reveals its relational as well as material nature …

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 …

Immigrants' access to and use of welfare benefits have been the subject of heated debate in
many west-European countries. In this article, I examine public solidarity with unemployed …

Past work suggests that support for welfare in the United States is heavily influenced by
citizens' racial attitudes. Indeed, the idea that many Americans think of welfare recipients as …

Despite experiencing gender-based violence more frequently and more severely, victims of
sexual harassment and domestic abuse from lower socioeconomic status (SES) …

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 …