The Personal and the Political: How Personal Welfare State Experiences Affect Political Trust and Ideology

by Staffan Kumlin

Book Overview

This study investigates the extent to which personal welfare state experiences affect general political orientations and attitudes. What are the political effects when a person is discontent with some aspect of, say, the particular health services or the public kindergartens that she has been in personal contact with? Do they lose faith in the welfare state or in leftist ideas about large-scale state intervention in society? Do they take their negative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134952817X
• ISBN13: 9781349528172
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"