On this page, you will find a series of WelfSOC-related documents, working papers, datasets and background information prepared by the research teams involved in this project.
Book
“After Austerity: Welfare State Transformation in Europe after the Great Recession“, edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby, Benjamin Leruth and Heejung Chung (Oxford University Press)
Available as a hardcover (£65), paperback (£25) and also an e-book.
Datasets
Most datasets will soon be available here.
Democratic Forums – Before and After Survey, United Kingdom (SPSS)
Scientific articles
Benjamin Leruth and Peter Taylor-Gooby (2018). ‘Does political discourse matter? Comparing party positions and public attitudes on immigration in England’. Politics, March 2018. You can also view it here.
Mathias Herup Nielsen (2018). ‘Four Normative Languages of Welfare: A pragmatic sociological investigation’. Distinktion : Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory Vol. 7 Issue 3.
Peter Taylor-Gooby (2018). ‘Identifying attitudes to welfare through deliberative forums – the emergence of reluctant individualism’. Policy and Politics, 12 January 2018.
Peter Taylor-Gooby (2017). ‘Redoubling the Crisis of the Welfare State’. Journal of Social Policy, 46, 4, 815-835
Book chapters
Tatjana Rakar and Maša Filipovič Hrast (2017). Socialne naložbe in družinska politika v Sloveniji [Social investment perspective in family policy in Slovenia], in Generaciji navidezne svobode: otroci in starši v sodobni družbi [Generations of illusive freedom: children and parents in contemporary society] (Tamara Narat and Urban Boljka eds.). Ljubljana: Založba Sophia.
Publication intended for a wider audience
Steffen Mau, Jan-Ocko Heuer (2016). Wachsende Ungleichheit als Gefahr für nachhaltiges Wachstum: Wie die Bevölkerung über soziale Unterschiede denkt. Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Abteilung Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik.
Conference papers
Papers presented at the 2017 annual ESPAnet Conference, Lisbon, 14-16 September 2017
- Rights and obligations in times of austerity – Citizen’s perceptions of welfare conditionality from a multidimensional perspective – Katharina Zimmermann and Jan-Ocko Heuer
- The changes and future of the Slovenian welfare state – a view from deliberative forums – Tatjana Rakar and Masa Filipovic Hrast
- Moral economies of the welfare state – a qualitative comparative study – Bjorn Hvinden, Steffen Mau and Peter Taylor-Gooby
One book of proceedings from National conference on “Future of the Slovenian welfare state”
Filipovic Hrast, Maša, Rakar, Tatjana (eds). Zbornik povzetkov iz konference Prihodnost slovenske države blaginje, 24. 5. 2017, FDV, Univerza v Ljubljani. Ljubljana: Založba FDV. 2017.
Papers presented at the 2016 annual ESPAnet Conference, Rotterdam, 1-2 September 2016
- Welfare State Futures, Prospects and Cuts: Using Democratic Forums to Investigate Attitudes to Welfare
Benjamin Leruth - European welfare chauvinism: A study of deliberative forums in five countries
Christian Albrekt Larsen, Morten Frederiksen, Mathias Herup Nielsen & Jørgen Goul Andersen - Future responsibilities towards the elderly: a comparative analysis of welfare state attitudes and expectations in Norway and Slovenia
Maša Filipovič Hrast, Prof. Bjørn Hvinden, Dr. Kjetil Klette Boehler, Dr. Tatjana Rakar, Mi Ah Schøyen & Vegard S Svagård - Changing preferences towards redistribution: How deliberation shapes welfare attitudes
Katharina Zimmermann & Jan-Ocko Heuer - Attitudes towards the welfare mix: How citizens in Germany and the United Kingdom attribute responsibilities for social welfare to state, market, and family – and why
Jan-Ocko Heuer, Benjamin Leruth, Steffen Mau & Katharina Zimmermann
Papers presented at the 2015 annual ESPAnet Conference, Odense, 4 September 2015
- Stretching the limits of solidarity: The German case
Dr. Jan-Ocko Heuer and Prof. Steffen Mau, Humboldt University of Berlin - Where next for the UK welfare state?
Prof. Peter Taylor-Gooby, Dr. Benjamin Leruth and Dr. Heejung Chung, University of Kent
PowerPoint presentation
- The devils of the details: Danish welfare chauvinism across policy programs and migrant groups
Prof. Christian Albrekt Larsen, Aalborg University - The future of welfare state and challenges to solidarity in Slovenia
Dr. Maša Filipovič Hrast and Dr. Tatjana Rakar, University of Ljubljana
Papers presented at the first WelfSOC co-ordination conference, London, 12-13 February 2015
- Deliberative Forums – discussion paper
Prof. Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent - Research Design – discussion paper
Prof. Peter Taylor-Gooby, University of Kent - Deliberative Forums in Attitude Research: Practical Issues
Dr. Stephen Elstub, University of the West of Scotland
WelfSOC background papers
These background papers were prepared by each national team in order to reflect on past, present and future challenges for the welfare state in each country. It offers a review of welfare policies and attitude data. In addition, a comparative European background paper explores policy responses to the Great Recession and most recent attitudinal data in comparative perspective.