TY - JOUR
T1 - Multifaceted effects of globalisation on welfare attitudes
T2 - When winners and losers join forces
AU - Lim, Sijeong
AU - Tanaka, Seiki
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Brian Burgoon, Jaemin Shim and participants of seminars at the East Asia Institute (EAI) for their valuable comments. They also thank the MacMillan Center of Yale University, EAI and the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation for generous support for this project. The human subject protocol of the research was evaluated by the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) Ethical Advisory Board. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This project was funded by a research grant from the Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV) Programme Group at the University of Amsterdam.
Funding Information:
The authors thank Brian Burgoon, Jaemin Shim and participants of seminars at the East Asia Institute (EAI) for their valuable comments. They also thank the MacMillan Center of Yale University, EAI and the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation for generous support for this project. The human subject protocol of the research was evaluated by the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) Ethical Advisory Board.
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This project was funded by a research grant from the Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV) Programme Group at the University of Amsterdam.
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PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - How does economic globalisation influence individuals’ welfare state preferences? Moving beyond the unidimensional understanding of globalisation exposure, we intersect two dimensions of exposure perceptions (gain vs loss and individual vs societal impacts) and propose a novel typology: collective winner, lone winner, lone loser and collective loser. We then explain the preference gap among losers (collective losers vis-à-vis lone losers) and among winners (collective winners vis-à-vis lone winners) by considering three distinct motivations for welfare state support: compensation, risk-pooling and inequality reduction. We illustrate the usefulness of our typology using an original survey in South Korea. We find that lone winners are far more supportive of welfare spending than collective winners. At the same time, collective losers are found to be much more supportive of welfare spending than lone losers. We provide some first-cut evidence that the insurance-seeking motivation common to lone winners and collective losers drive their welfare state support.
AB - How does economic globalisation influence individuals’ welfare state preferences? Moving beyond the unidimensional understanding of globalisation exposure, we intersect two dimensions of exposure perceptions (gain vs loss and individual vs societal impacts) and propose a novel typology: collective winner, lone winner, lone loser and collective loser. We then explain the preference gap among losers (collective losers vis-à-vis lone losers) and among winners (collective winners vis-à-vis lone winners) by considering three distinct motivations for welfare state support: compensation, risk-pooling and inequality reduction. We illustrate the usefulness of our typology using an original survey in South Korea. We find that lone winners are far more supportive of welfare spending than collective winners. At the same time, collective losers are found to be much more supportive of welfare spending than lone losers. We provide some first-cut evidence that the insurance-seeking motivation common to lone winners and collective losers drive their welfare state support.
KW - South Korea
KW - collective loser
KW - economic globalisation
KW - insurance seeking
KW - lone winner
KW - sociotropic perception
KW - welfare state attitude
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097363396&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1369148120974885
DO - 10.1177/1369148120974885
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097363396
SN - 1369-1481
VL - 24
SP - 31
EP - 51
JO - British Journal of Politics and International Relations
JF - British Journal of Politics and International Relations
IS - 1
ER -
