Social Justice, Legitimacy and the Welfare State

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Contents: Preface by the Editors Introduction: social justice, legitimacy and the welfare state, Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte. Part I 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, Philipp Rehm Are the 'deserving needy' really deserving everywhere? Cross-cultural heterogeneity and popular support for the old and the sick in 8 Western countries, Mads Meier JA|ger. Part II 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. Part III 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. Part IV 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 Index.