Abstract
Abstract This chapter shows how the Danish People’s Party (DF) has prioritized the benefit entitlements of ‘deserving’ benefit recipients—i.e. the elderly and labour market insiders—while retrenching the social rights of immigrants at the same time. The Danish DF and Austrian FPÖ have thus had a relatively similar pro-elderly and welfare chauvinist policy impact, but they diverged in the area of family policy. Unlike the FPÖ, the DF has not supported a familialist strategy that would allow (and expect) families, mostly women in practice, to reduce working hours in order to care for children. The institutional legacies of Nordic family policy and the related absence of a ‘male breadwinner’ model cut off political support for a familialist approach. The DF’s policy impact may thus be summarized as chauvinist insider protection: cuts in welfare for non-citizens while expanding social security for the elderly and labour market insiders.
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