Introduction : social justice, legitimacy and the welfare state / Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte
Welfare-attitude formation from a cross-national perspective
Social stratification and political articulation : why attitudinal class differences vary across countries / Staffan Kumlin and Stefan Svallfors
Who supports the welfare state? : determinants of preferences concerning redistribution / Phillip Rehm
Are the 'deserving needy' really deserving everywhere? : cross-cultural heterogeneity and popular support for the old and the sick in eight Western countries / Mads Meier Jæger
Burdens and benefits : the justice perspective
When is a taxation system just? : attitudes towards general taxation principles and towards the justice of one's own tax burden / Stefan Liebig and Steffen Mau
The moral economy of poverty : on the conditionality of public support for social assistance schemes / Patrick Sachweh, Carsten G. Ulrich and Bernhard Christoph
Political factors shaping welfare attitudes
Social policy preferences, national defense and political polarization in the United States / Benjamin Veghte, Greg M. Shaw and Robert Y. Shapiro
Populist challenges to the welfare state in Belgium : on the susceptibility of the underprivileged for anti-welfare state discourse and politics / Anton Derks
The welfare state consensus in Israel : placing class politics in context / Michael Shalev
The challenge of social and ethnic diversity
Multi-level determinants of the public's informal solidarity towards immigrants in European welfare states / Wim van Oorschot and Wilfred Uunk
Legitimacy of welfare states in transitions from homogeneity to multiculturality : a matter of trust / Knut Halvorsen
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Social justice, legitimacy and the welfare state. ISBN 9780754649397. Published by Ashgate in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.