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Socio-Economic Review Advance Access published online on June 28, 2009
Socio-Economic Review, doi:10.1093/ser/mwp014
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The effect of public opinion on social policy generosity

Lane Kenworthy*

Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

* Correspondence: lane.kenworthy{at}arizona.edu

Based on analysis of cross-country and over-time patterns in affluent countries in the late 1980s and the 1990s, Brooks and Manza contend that public opinion is a key cause of social policy generosity. A closer look at the evidence suggests reason for skepticism about this inference.

Key Words: comparative politics • political sociology • public expenditures • redistribution • social policy • welfare state


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