Unravelling deservingness: Which criteria do people use to judge the relative deservingness of welfare target groups? A vignette-based focus group study.
Previous research suggests that European citizens share consistent attitudes towards the relative deservingness of different target groups of social policy, such as perceiving elderly people as most deserving, unemployed people as less deserving and immigrants as least deserving. Yet, it is unclear...
| Publicado en: | Journal of European Social Policy Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 389 - 404 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications, Ltd.
Oct2020
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