.... In this context, the paper draws on moral economy theory to explain more fully how attitudes toward welfare state support can affect attitudes toward environmental policy support. Design/methodology/approach We introduce a moral economy of environmental policies to capture the attitudinal framework...

... attention within the literature, with an examination of the Global North and Global South context followed by reinterpretation of these concepts to facilitate a comprehensive study of well-being beyond the realms of welfare states. Concluding the narrative, a succinct outline of potential pathways...

...Jacob Didia-Hansen Purpose Deservingness theory is gaining popularity in the study of European welfare attitudes but has found little application in the United States. In this article, the author explores what happens if deservingness theory is applied in the study of American perceptions...

... 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Poverty Northern Ireland Welfare Pride Shame Lone motherhood Being on welfare benefits and not having enough money to meet one's needs has always produced feelings of indignity, humiliation and shame, and there is a huge...

... in practice due to the flow of the citizens’ issues/needs in reality and the development of new issues/needs among citizens. The service professionals’ classic ideal model and Praxis is illustrated in Figure 1 . Figure 1 The service professionals’ ideal model and practice of the provision of welfare...

... experiences of vulnerability. Patterns in this process illuminate how vulnerability narratives re-shape long-running tensions at the heart of social welfare interventions between a drive to provide services that might mitigate social precariousness and an impetus towards regulating behaviour. The paper...

... confident with respect to solving problems. Germany Welfare Unemployment Sociology of work Self-efficacy during unemployment is frequently considered a central dimension of employability and an important factor in a successful job search (Fugate et al., 2004). An empirical analysis...

... to study gender preference in domestic servitude. Welfare Demand Family Sex preference Working women Nigeria's socio-economic situation is a dramatic irony. With about 164.3 million people, (National Bureau of Statistics, 2011), the most populous black nation has not been able to transmute...

... making paid employment illegal for asylum seekers, and in the process making the government liable for the living costs of such individuals – creating a situation of forced welfare dependency. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper provides a review...

...Katharina Dengler; Katrin Hohmeyer; Andreas Moczall; Joachim Wolff Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the implementation and effectiveness of an intensified activation scheme for very disadvantaged welfare recipients in Germany, used as a targeting device for a very generous wage...

... or statistical analysis of survey data. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Low fertility Social policy Care Singapore Welfare State Family In the context of persistent low fertility that contributes to an ageing society, what might be the shifting roles of state and family in caring...

... status in China. Originality/value The paper questions and complicates the “state withdrawal” representation of social welfare change and argues that it is not “the state” but “the work unit and community organization” retreat from public care provision. It also argues that the change in the role...

... of the three countries, to examine the welfare model, the service provisions and the outcomes of the family‐friendly policies. Findings In the study, the paper finds that considerable differences exist among the three countries in their conception of the role and responsibility of government...

...Viola Burau; Signy Irene Vabo; Mia Vabø Purpose The paper seeks to explore how universal welfare arrangements based on needs testing may change and assume different institutional forms. Drawing attention to Norwegian home care, the paper explores how established interpretations of needs...

...Viola Burau; Signy Irene Vabo; Liisa Häikiö; Anneli Anttonen Purpose Local welfare governance is approached from the vantage point of informal carers caring for older people. A bottom‐up perspective is used to construct a critical view on welfare provision and governance practices at the local...

... universalism should be understood and evaluated at the local level. The study offers an empirical analysis of organisational conditions for local universalism in the Nordic welfare municipalities. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Welfare Elder care Local government services Finland Norway...

...Viola Burau; Signy Irene Vabo; Teppo Kröger Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the changes that have taken place in the central regulation of social care in Finland since the 1970s. The changes in vertical central‐local relations are discussed in the context of economic and welfare...

... or new public management (NPM) and the welfare‐state ideology, and they find themselves making choices according to the former. This study on state enterprises at the local level has found that managers and union representatives appeared to support the intentions behind the programme, but they clearly...

... aspects has been a feature of Social Assistance systems for a long time. This article describes how processes of decentralisation in Dutch Social Assistance in the context of activating the Dutch welfare state are determined by two core objectives: on the one hand, to give local authorities more autonomy...

...Hildegard Theobald Since the 1960s, the health system has seen the professionalisation of a new occupation, carer of the elderly. The form and result of this process differs between countries according to their welfare systems. In this paper, the differences will be analysed in a comparison between...