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WELFARE STATE SUPPORT FROM BELOW: LINKING INDIVIDUAL ATTITUDES AND ORGANIZED INTERESTS IN EUROPE
Public opinion and “vested” organized interests are seen as major obstacles to changing the status quo of social policies. Far-reaching reforms of welfare states are politically risky for governments, as they have to fear electoral backlash and opposition from interest groups. The long-term goal of the project is to analyse the positioning of organized interests and public opinion on social policy reform issues as well as the feedback of reforms on individual attitudes and collective interest strategies.
Project homepage (http://reforms.uni-mannheim.de/english/projects/project_group_a/project_a6/index.html)
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Wendt, C., Agartan, T.I. and Kaminska, M.E. (2013): Social Health Insurance without Corporate Actors. Changes in self-regulation in Germany, Poland and Turkey, Social Science & Medicine, forthcoming.
 
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