A Recast Framework for Welfare Deservingness Perceptions.

ABSTRACT: Many important societal debates revolve around questions of deservingness, especially when it comes to debates related to inequality and social protection. It is therefore unsurprising that a growing body of research spanning the social and political sciences is concerned with the determinants of deservingness perceptions. In this contribution, we engage with the currently central theoretical framework used in deservingness research and point out an important weakness: Partly ambiguous definitions of the framework's central concepts, the criteria for perceived deservingness. We also highlight the negative consequences this has for empirical research, including notably varying and overlapping operationalizations and thereby a lacking comparability of results across studies. Our main contrib

SUBMITTER: Knotz CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8378786 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature