Who wants what from the welfare state? Socio-structural cleavages in distributional politics: Evidence from Swiss referendum votes

European Societies

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 211-232

  Bonoli, Giuliano ^a   Häusermann, Silja ^b  

^a Politique Sociale ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Class cleavage; Generational cleavage; Social policy preferences; Switzerland; Welfare states

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651024138     PISSN: 14616696     EISSN: 14698307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616690801942116     Document Type: Article

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