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  • Studying individual attitudes and public opinion on the welfare state has become a major field of research in recent years, but there is a significant research gap. Given the limitations of existing comparative surveys of public opinion, there is very little research on how citizens perceive and react to policy trade-offs, i.e. how they respond when forced to prioritize between different types of social policies. This paper presents original and new data from a comparative survey of public opinion in eight Western European countries. In a split-sample design, citizens were asked whether they would be willing to increase public spending on education or families with young children, even if that implied cutbacks in pensions and unemployment benefits. The central findings are that citizens generally dislike being forced to cut back one type of social spending in order to expand another, but there is a significant degree of variation both across individuals as well as across welfare state regimes. Material self-interest as well as norms and values can help to understand differences in the acceptance of trade-offs. The analysis also confirms a central argument of the literature on “deservingness” (Van Oorschot 2006): Cutting back benefits for the unemployed as the less deserving group of welfare state recipients tends to be more accepted than cutting back pensions. Furthermore, we find that citizens in liberal welfare state regimes and to a certain extent conservative welfare states are more willing to accept cutbacks in social transfers in order to expand social investments. (xsd:string)
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