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PDF, English (Artikel 1 ist im Journal of European Social Policy (Sage) veröffentlicht. Im Rahmen der Dissertation kann dies kostenfrei veröffentlicht werden, jedoch muss das Kapitel den gleichen Namen tragen. Artikel 3 ist open access (MDPI) und Artikel 4 Routledge) - main document Download (3MB) | Lizenz: The influence of social policies on attitudes and behavior in times of rising inequalities and climate change by Parth, Anne-Marie underlies the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0

Abstract

This cumulative dissertation engages in the cross-country effect of social policies on environmental and political attitudes and behaviour. While the first two papers deal with the welfare-environment nexus, by asking how economically deprived groups can be motivated for climate action through generous social policies (see chapter 3 and 4), the last two papers deal with backlashing and with the unexpected consequences reducing inequalities and testing new social security systems can have (see chapter 5 and 6). Chapter 5 asks how reducing gender inequalities affects political orientation, while chapter 6 – assuming that rising social inequalities require thinking of new social solutions – tests whether welfare experiments provide a suitable policy instrument for evidence-based policy making in times of rising inequalities.