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What and whom are family policies for? : unpacking the meaning of citizens’ support for family policy across Europe
ID Rakar, Tatjana (Author), ID Chung, Heejung (Author), ID Zimmermann, Katharina (Author), ID Schøyen, Mi Ah (Author), ID Filipovič Hrast, Maša (Author)

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Abstract
The paper provides a comparative investigation into public attitudes to family policies. It shows that citizens’ support for family policies is diverse across different welfare regimes with respect to four countries belonging to distinct regimes: the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway and Slovenia. Using qualitative data, we unpack the ways individuals view the need for family policies, the rationale they use to explain their support for family policies and for imposing restrictions on access to family policies – ie. why, for whom and under which conditions. We find that social rights narratives are common in Norway; a social investment logic is prevalent in Germany and Slovenia; while in the United Kingdom, the dominant view is closer to the work-central individualised responsibility narrative of neoliberalism. In addition, we find differences across regimes in which family policies should target. In the United Kingdom and Germany, the focus is much more on providing support to activate parents, while in Norway and partly Slovenia, the focus is on providing well-being for children. The findings show that despite some convergence in family policies across Europe in recent times, we still find clear diversity in what and for whom family policies are for, its rationale largely embedded in the larger institutional normative structures of the welfare state. The results not only contribute to the literature on the relationship between public attitudes and welfare institutions, but also point towards shifting ideas about the role of family policies in the context of societal change.

Language:English
Keywords:citizens, welfare attitudes, welfare regimes, conditionality
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Author Accepted Manuscript
Publication date:12.01.2022
Year:2022
Number of pages:Str. 1-14
Numbering:Vol. 38, no. 1
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-137031 This link opens in a new window
UDC:304(4)
ISSN on article:2169-978X
DOI:10.1017/ics.2021.16 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:94240771 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:30.05.2022
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Title:Journal of international and comparative social policy
Publisher:Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
ISSN:2169-978X
COBISS.SI-ID:522757145 This link opens in a new window

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Funder:ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
Project number:P5-0200-2017
Name:Kakovost življenja družbenih skupin

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