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Dimarts, 24 Abril 2018

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Welfare States Matter for Democracy: Income-based Participatory Inequality in Post-WWII Western Democracies

Conferències i congressos - Sala de Juntes de la Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i Sociologia de la UAB

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Poorer citizens participate less in politics; at the same time the effect of income on participation is not constant across democracies. Attempts at solving this puzzle point to macro-level factors. Usual suspects often mentioned here are country-level features such as compulsory voting or income inequality (Gallego, 2015). We, instead, put forward a largely neglected yet plausible reason for why a differential effect of income on political participation exists: the characteristics of the welfare state. Building on Schneider and Makszin (2014) we inductively develop, with the use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), various welfare regime types that condition patterns of income-based participatory inequality in democracies. These are arrived at on the basis of an original data set of roughly 200 merged surveys from 21 OECD members, between 1960 and 2010. We label these regimes the supportive and mobilizing systems.

 
We propose that these welfare state regimes correspond to different mechanisms through which welfare state characteristics shape participatory patterns: (1) resources available to individuals for participation and (2) unions’ and parties’ ability to politically mobilize and inform their members. We complement our aggregate-level QCA analysis with an individual-level one, in which we test whether these clusters indeed differ from each other in the expected way. Relying on 6 cross-national surveys, we find consistent support for our mobilization-based arguments, while revealing mixed evidence that they also spill over into attitudinal factors which underpin participation. However, we find only weak evidence for our resource-based pathway. Our results make the initial steps toward illustrating how welfare state characteristics impact participation gaps in advanced industrial democracies, with potentially damaging effects for democratic representation in the long term.

Ubicació: Sala de Juntes de la Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i Sociologia de la UAB

Data: Dimarts 24, Abril de 2018 - 13:00h

Data fi: Dimarts 24, Abril de 2018 - 14:00h

Organitzador: Grup de Recerca en Democràcia, Eleccions i Ciutadania

Afegir al meu calendari 2018-04-24 13:00:00 2018-04-24 14:00:00 Europe/Madrid Welfare States Matter for Democracy: Income-based Participatory Inequality in Post-WWII Western Democracies Poorer citizens participate less in politics; at the same time the effect of income on participation is not constant across democracies. Attempts at solving this puzzle point to macro-level factors. Usual suspects often mentioned here are country-level features such as compulsory voting or income inequality (Gallego, 2015). We, instead, put forward a largely neglected yet plausible reason for why a differential effect of income on political participation exists: the characteristics of the welfare state. Building on Schneider and Makszin (2014) we inductively develop, with the use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), various welfare regime types that condition patterns of income-based participatory inequality in democracies. These are arrived at on the basis of an original data set of roughly 200 merged surveys from 21 OECD members, between 1960 and 2010. We label these regimes the supportive and mobilizing systems.
 
We propose that these welfare state regimes correspond to different mechanisms through which welfare state characteristics shape participatory patterns: (1) resources available to individuals for participation and (2) unions’ and parties’ ability to politically mobilize and inform their members. We complement our aggregate-level QCA analysis with an individual-level one, in which we test whether these clusters indeed differ from each other in the expected way. Relying on 6 cross-national surveys, we find consistent support for our mobilization-based arguments, while revealing mixed evidence that they also spill over into attitudinal factors which underpin participation. However, we find only weak evidence for our resource-based pathway. Our results make the initial steps toward illustrating how welfare state characteristics impact participation gaps in advanced industrial democracies, with potentially damaging effects for democratic representation in the long term.
 Sala de Juntes de la Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i Sociologia de la UAB Grup de Recerca en Democràcia, Eleccions i Ciutadania