The Welfare State and the Democratic Citizen How Social Policies Shape Political Equality /

• Main Author: Shore, Jennifer (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
• Subjects: Welfare state.; Citizenship-Sociological aspects.; Public policy.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Sociology of Citizenship.; Public Policy.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book examines the ways in which the welfare state impacts levels and distributions of political participation and democratic support in Western democracies. Going beyond the traditional contextual accounts of political behavior, which primarily focus on political institutions or the socio-econo...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Democracies and Their Citizens
• 3. Why Context Matters: The Role of Public Policy
• 4. Empirical Approaches to the Study of Democratic Citizens and Welfare States
• 5. The Impact of Social Policy on Democratic Citizenship
• 6. Consequences of Unequal Citizenship .