Popular deservingness of the unemployed in the context of welfare state policies, economic conditions and cultural climate

How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Policy Feedback, Participation, Voting, and Attitudes

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 244-268

  Van Oorschot, Wim ^a   Meuleman, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 84958139748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781782545491.00021     Document Type: Chapter

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