Who should get what, and why? On deservingness criteria and the conditionality of solidarity among the public

By Wim van Oorschot. 2000

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. M. Petersen
2. B. Baumberg
3. Rune Stubager
4. C. Larsen
5. Rune Slothuus
6. Lise Togeby
7. J. Mijs
8. P. Emmenegger

Citations in the corpus

• The Institutional Logic of Welfare Attitudes (2008, methodology): “Petterson (1995), Van Oorschot (2000; 2005), Van Oorschot & Arts (2005) and others have confirmed this ranking.”
• ‘Some are more equal than others’: economic egalitarianism and welfare chauvinism in the Netherlands (2010, background): “…deservingness, ethnic minorities, welfare chauvinism, welfare state The so-called ‘deservingness’ debate about the welfare state addresses the questions of whether and why the public at large considers particular social groups or categories more or less entitled to welfare (Van Oorschot, 2000).”
• Evolutionary Political Psychology: On the Origin and Structure of Heuristics and Biases in Politics (2015, background): “Importantly, cues that would have correlated over evolutionary history with such motivations are highly aligned with the list of cues that Oorschot (2000) has identified as input to the deservingness heuristic: the effort spent when accruing resources, the gratitude expressed when receiving…”
• The stigma of claiming benefits: a quantitative study (2015, background): “There is extensive evidence that people make deservingness judgements based on inter alia claimants’ level of need, whether they are seen as blameworthy, and their gratitude for the gift (van Oorschot, 2000).”
• Deservingness versus values in public opinion on welfare: The automaticity of the deservingness heuristic (2011, background): “…policies to a considerable extent can be explained by their general political values (Blekesaune & Quadagno 2003; Feldman & Steenbergen 2001) and perceptions of welfare recipients’ deservingness, essentially whether they are perceived as being lazy or unlucky (Gilens 1999; Van Oorschot 2000).”