Attitudes Towards the Welfare State and Associational Involvement in Europe. Comparative Analysis

• Authors: Tomasz Masłyk , Tomasz Piróg
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper examines a hypothesis that there is a negative correlation between the activity in social organizations and the support for the welfare state. The hypothesis was inspired by the study showing a reinforcing effect of welfare spending on social capital indicators and a negative substitution effect on informal solidarity (van Oorschot, Arts and Halman 2005). The analysis was performed using data from the 2008/2016 European Social Survey, taking into consideration additional sociodemographic variables. The results revealed a lack of correlation between the associational activity and the support for the welfare state, and a relatively coherent pattern of impact of the control variables on associational activity.

Keywords

EN

associational activity; crowding out; social capital; governance; social state

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 212
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 445-460

Dates

published

2020-12-16

Contributors

author

Tomasz Masłyk

• AGH University of Sciene and Technology

author

Tomasz Piróg

• AGH University of Sciene and Technology

Identifiers

DOI

10.26412/psr212.04