The Politics of Trade-Offs : Studying the Dynamics of Welfare State Reform With Conjoint Experiments

Häusermann, Silja; Kurer, Thomas; Traber, Denise

The Politics of Trade-Offs : Studying the Dynamics of Welfare State Reform With Conjoint Experiments

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2019

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Häusermann, Silja

Kurer, Thomas

Traber, Denise

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Open Access Green

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Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft

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Comparative Political Studies. Sage. 2019, 52(7), pp. 1059-1095. ISSN 0010-4140. eISSN 1552-3829. Available under: doi: 10.1177/0010414018797943

Zusammenfassung

Welfare state reform in times of austerity is notoriously difficult because most citizens oppose retrenchment of social benefits. Governments, thus, tend to combine cutbacks with selective benefit expansions, thereby creating trade-offs: to secure new advantages, citizens must accept painful cutbacks. Prior research has been unable to assess the effectiveness of compensating components in restrictive welfare reforms. We provide novel evidence on feasible reform strategies by applying conjoint survey analysis to a highly realistic direct democratic setting of multidimensional welfare state reform. Drawing on an original survey of Swiss citizens’ attitudes toward comprehensive pension reform, we empirically demonstrate that built-in trade-offs strongly enhance the prospects of restrictive welfare reforms. Our findings indicate that agency matters: governments and policy makers can and must grant the right compensations to the relevant opposition groups to overcome institutional inertia.

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320 Politik

Schlagwörter

pension reform, welfare state reform, welfare state preferences, conjoint experiments

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HÄUSERMANN, Silja, Thomas KURER, Denise TRABER, 2019. The Politics of Trade-Offs : Studying the Dynamics of Welfare State Reform With Conjoint Experiments. In: Comparative Political Studies. Sage. 2019, 52(7), pp. 1059-1095. ISSN 0010-4140. eISSN 1552-3829. Available under: doi: 10.1177/0010414018797943

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@article{Hausermann2019Polit-53295,
  year={2019},
  doi={10.1177/0010414018797943},
  title={The Politics of Trade-Offs : Studying the Dynamics of Welfare State Reform With Conjoint Experiments},
  number={7},
  volume={52},
  issn={0010-4140},
  journal={Comparative Political Studies},
  pages={1059--1095},
  author={Häusermann, Silja and Kurer, Thomas and Traber, Denise}
}

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