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European Sociological Review 17:337-356 (2001)
© 2001 Oxford University Press
Four Worlds of Welfare State Attitudes? A Comparison of Germany, Norway, and the United States
Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Soziologie, Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany. hja{at}sozjur.uni-bielefeld.de
This article examines the determinants of variations in welfare state attitudes between Germany, Norway, and the United States. Besides the influence of different ‘welfare regime types’ as discussed by Esping-Andersen and others, compositional effects of individual variables measuring people's socio-economic interests and socialization experiences and the interaction of aggregate-level (welfare regime) and individual-level (individual variables) determinants of welfare state attitudes are considered. Using data from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), results of our analysis show that remarkable between-country differences in welfare state attitudes exist. Our results suggest that these differences have to be explained both in terms of overall country effects and of the influence of country-specific economic interests and socialization experiences.
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