Dear colleagues,
Please see below for details of a panel on public opinion and welfare politics at the World Congress of Political Science (IPSA 2012) in Madrid (8-12 July 2012).
To submit a paper proposal, visit the link:
http://www.ipsa.org/my-ipsa/events/madrid2012/panel/public-opinion-and-welfare-politics-new-approaches-and-methods
Please feel free to circulate this information to any interested party.
Best regards,
Panel: Public Opinion and Welfare Politics. New Approaches and Methods
Empirical research using survey data has shown repeatedly over the last decades that public support for welfare policies remains at high levels in most of the European countries. Nevertheless, we have seen that public opinion reacts in many different and subtle ways to retrenchment, depending on the countries and the policies under pressure, though survey data about preferences for reforms is scarce. Therefore, we need a better understanding of the preferences for welfare policies and how these preferences shape public policies.
This panel will address public preferences toward welfare policies. We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions. Theoretical works are expected to deal with the institutional or structural factors that shape the link between public opinion and public policies, but also with the psychological aspects of preferences. Empirical works using either quantitative or qualitative approaches that focus on public preferences in any field of the welfare policies can be submitted. Both case studies and comparative studies analyzing the effects of contextual variables are of great interest. In addition, we are specially interested in new methodologies to analyze welfare preferences such as survey experiments or lab experiments.
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