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Adding Another Level Individual Responses to Globalization and Government Welfare Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2015

Lena Schaffer  and
Gabriele Spilker
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Abstract

Literature on the compensation hypothesis overwhelmingly concentrates on either the macro or micro level of the relationship between globalization and welfare spending. This paper explicitly addresses this shortcoming by using individual citizens and country-specific characteristics in a hierarchical model framework. We start by examining individual’s context-conditional reactions to actual economic globalization and welfare generosity; after which, we make the effect of actual economic globalization (welfare generosity) conditional on whether the individual is a globalization winner or loser. In contrast to theoretical expectations, our results indicate that actual economic globalization does not affect people’s perception in the manner expected by the compensation hypothesis. However, individuals display more positive attitudes toward globalization if welfare state generosity is proxied using government spending on active labor market programs.

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Political Science Research and Methods , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 2016 , pp. 399 - 426
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© The European Political Science Association 2015 

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Lena Schaffer Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zürich, Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) (schaffer@ir.gess.ethz.ch); Gabriele Spilker, Assistant Professor of International Politics, University of Salzburg (gabriele.spilker@sbg.ac.at).

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