Essays about: "deservingness"
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6. Strong reciprocal judgments: Differences in approval for welfare provision based on recipient deservingness cues
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : This thesis examines whether simple deservingness cues can shift individual opinion on the provision of welfare to a hypothetical welfare recipient. Using a pre-registered design and analysis plan based on earlier work by Lene Aarøe & Michael Bang Petersen, I conduct an experiment using students recruited by email from the Stockholm School of Economics with one control and two treatment groups. READ MORE
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7. The Welfare State and Attitudes to Free Movement : How does the design of the social insurance system associate with public attitudes towards free movement in receiving EU countries?
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The EU is faced with problems related to the unrestricted access to national welfare states of mobile EU workers. These problems are mainly framed by the growing opposition to the free movement of workers. The strongest contributing factor to these negative attitudes has commonly said to be actor-based, i.e. READ MORE
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8. Universal Welfare State at Stake? The Changing Political Discourse Regarding Inclusive Welfare for Refugees in Sweden
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Sweden has for a long time distinguished itself as a major player among few other generous and inclusive welfare states. The Swedish welfare system is characterised by the universal principles based on the idea that all legitimate inhabitants are eligible for welfare support in order to promote overall solidarity among citizens. READ MORE
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9. Sending an Active Message
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis analyses how social policy in the form of benefit sanctions targeted at the long-term unemployed is made by case workers within the Swedish Public Employment Agency (Arbetsförmedlingen). Since the 1990s, rising unemployment and fiscal pressures on the welfare states made countries more oriented towards policies of “activation”. READ MORE
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10. Vulnerable EU Migrants' access to Welfare - A source of Conflict? A Comparative Study of Party-Political Approaches in Gothenburg and Stockholm
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Vulnerable EU migrants' access to welfare has become a controversial issue in Sweden since two rounds of EU Eastern enlargement. The political debate has comprised both inclusive and welfare protective preferences, however, previous research provides contradictory views on whether approaches to intra-EU migration separate parties according to the traditional left-right divide or cuts across the political spectrum. READ MORE
