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- Title
The ideological roots of the activation paradigm: How justice preferences and unemployment attributions shape public support for demanding activation policies.
- Authors
Van Hootegem, Arno; Rossetti, Federica; Abts, Koen; Meuleman, Bart
- Abstract
Research either focused on self‐interest or left–right ideology to explain support for demanding active labour market policies (ALMPs). This article focuses instead on how attitudes towards these policies are rooted in the underlying policy paradigm. We link attitudes towards ALMPs to two pillars of the activation paradigm: distributive justice and unemployment attributions. Structural equational modeling is employed on the Belgian National Election Study data of 2014 (N = 1901). Individuals supporting the principles of need and equity and who blame the unemployed are more in favour of demanding activation. These frameworks and hence the policy paradigm thus have substantial predictive power.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; PUBLIC support; UNEMPLOYMENT; LABOR market; DISTRIBUTIVE justice; STRUCTURAL models; SECONDARY analysis
- Publication
International Journal of Social Welfare, 2024, Vol 33, Issue 3, p617
- ISSN
1369-6866
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ijsw.12628