Research questions -- Worlds of welfare capitalism -- Popular support for the welfare state -- Notions of solidarity and choices of justice principles -- Public support for health care systems -- Responsibility for old-age pensions -- Data -- International Social Survey Program -- Eurobarometer survey series -- European Values Study -- Scope and limitations of this study -- Cross-national comparability of attitudes -- Selection of countries for analysis -- Contextual-effects models and the small N problem -- Outline of the book -- Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or More? In Search of Ideal Types and Real Forms -- Ideal types -- Three worlds of welfare capitalism -- Or more? -- Mediterranean welfare states -- Antipodean welfare states -- East-Asian welfare states -- Familialism and late female mobilization -- Ideal and real types -- Empirical robustness of the three-way-classification -- Popular Support for Institutionalized Solidarity: A Comparison between European Welfare States -- Theories and findings about welfare state support -- Dimensions and levels of attitudes towards the welfare state -- Motives to support the welfare state -- Social position and support for the welfare state -- Welfare state regimes and support for the welfare state -- Other contextual features and support for the welfare state -- Hypotheses -- Data, operationalization and method -- Data -- Operationalization -- Results -- Welfare States, Solidarity and Justice Principles: Does the Type really matter? -- Research questions -- Conceptual framework
Summary
Are the forces of habit and democratic decision-making so strong that outcomes are judged as legitimate whatever they are? This study examines whether the public's consent to welfare state solidarity and its choices of justice principles are related to the specifics of welfare state regimes
