Welfare Nationalism and Popular Support for Raising the Child Allowance: Evidence from a Norwegian Survey Experiment

Refugee and labour immigration have placed the issue of immigrants’ access to welfare benefits high on the political agenda. This article explores how voter preferences for increases in the child benefit change when respondents are reminded about immigrants’ access to benefits. The survey experiment...

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Published in:Scandinavian political studies 2016-12, Vol.39 (4), p.482-494
Main Authors: Bay, Ann-Helen, Finseraas, Henning, Pedersen, Axel West
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dualism
Immigrants
Immigration
Migrants
Nationalism
Public support
Respondents
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Summary:Refugee and labour immigration have placed the issue of immigrants’ access to welfare benefits high on the political agenda. This article explores how voter preferences for increases in the child benefit change when respondents are reminded about immigrants’ access to benefits. The survey experiment shows that information about newly arrived immigrants’ access to child benefit has only a small impact on support for increasing the child allowance. By contrast, information about labour migrants’ access to benefits for children living in another European Union country has a strong impact, and the observed sensitivity to this cue is not to the same extent confined to respondents who otherwise support welfare dualism.
ISSN:0080-6757
1467-9477
DOI:10.1111/1467-9477.12067