Waiting for Godot? Welfare Attitudes in Portugal before and after the Financial Crisis.

Do attitudes towards the welfare state change in response to economic crises? Addressing this question is sometimes difficult because of the lack of longitudinal data. This article deals with this empirical challenge using survey data from the 2008 European Social Survey and from our own follow-up s...

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Publicado en:Political Studies Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 535 - 559
Autores principales: Vieira, Mónica Brito, da Silva, Filipe Carreira, Pereira, Cícero Roberto
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Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Oct2017
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          University of York, York, UK
          Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
          Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
          Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
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        Social surveys
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