「The paradoxical effect of welfare knowledge:
Unveiling income cleavage over attitudes to welfare in South Korea」
●저자 :
임시정 (제1저자)
●학술지명 : INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL
SCIENCE REVIEW
●권호 : 43(1)
●게재년월 :
2022년 1월
●링크: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0192512120906009
[초록]
The extent of
the rich–poor divide in attitudes to welfare varies across societies. Existing
studies focus on the progressivity of the welfare system and macroeconomic
conditions to explain cross-society variation. We shed light on another factor
that we believe is key to understanding the variation: the public’s knowledge
of the welfare state. We suggest that the prevalent ignorance of how welfare
state institutions work dilutes the rich–poor divide over social spending,
especially in emerging welfare states. We empirically illustrate our point
using original survey data from South Korea, a country where previous studies
repeatedly found little or no effect of economic class on welfare state
attitudes. We reveal a strong income-based cleavage over social spending in a
subset of the Korean population with more accurate knowledge of the welfare
system. Our findings carry important implications for understanding and
projecting welfare state politics in a broader set of emerging welfare states.