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Categorizing discourses of welfare chauvinism:Temporal, selective, functional and cultural dimensions
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Journal of European Social Policy
Publication Volume
34
Publication Issue
2
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Keywords
mini-publics
policy framing
populism
public discourse
welfare chauvinism
welfare policy opposition
General Social Sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
policy framing
populism
public discourse
welfare chauvinism
welfare policy opposition
General Social Sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/28740
Abstract
Welfare chauvinism, that is, the exclusion of non-citizens who live permanently within a state from social benefits and services, has become a mainstream form of welfare policy opposition advocated by some political parties and members of the public. While existing studies have successfully cast a light on the roots and scope of these policies, welfare chauvinism effectively encompasses a wide range of ideas that all have different meanings. Drawing on the stances taken by populist radical right parties, this article introduces five categories (or frames) of welfare chauvinism: temporary, selective, functional, cultural and, in its most extreme form, unconditional chauvinism. The article then illustrates how such categorization is applied empirically by focusing on the stances taken by three populist radical right parties and open-ended discussions held during mini-publics in examples of three different institutional forms of welfare state: Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom. This article offers a more precise depiction of how this form of opposition to welfare state policies plays out in the public sphere, taking full account of how different forms and frames of welfare chauvinism yield different policy outcomes and implications in different institutional and political contexts.
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Journal article
Date
2024-05
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10.1177/09589287231222892