Journal article
Healthcare provision and attitudes towards redistribution. A regional analysis across Europe
- Abstract:
-
This study examines the relationship between the welfare state, individual social class, and views on redistribution. It is hypothesised that the manifestation of the welfare state at the regional level, proxied by the number of beds in hospitals, may attenuate the differences in attitudes towards redistribution between people from different social classes. To address this research question, data from Eurostat is employed in conjunction with data from the European Social Survey on public support and welfare services at the regional level (NUTS 2), comprising data from 16 European countries from 2008 to 2018. The findings of this study demonstrate that in regions where there is a higher availability of beds in hospitals, there is a greater degree in variation in attitudes towards redistribution across different social classes. Conversely, in areas with fewer beds in hospitals, social classes tend to exhibit a convergence towards a high level of support for redistribution. This highlights the central role of welfare state dynamics at the meso-level in influencing the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and attitudes towards redistribution.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(Preview, Version of record, pdf, 1.2MB, Terms of use)
-
- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/13501763.2025.2462080
Authors
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Journal:
- Journal of European Public Policy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 1119-1147
- Publication date:
- 2025-02-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2025-01-29
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1466-4429
- ISSN:
-
1350-1763
- Language:
-
English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
2089487
- Local pid:
-
pubs:2089487
- Deposit date:
-
2025-02-18
- ARK identifier:
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Melli et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2025
- Rights statement:
- © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record