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The impact of the use of the social welfare services or social security benefits on attitudes to social welfare policies
- Author:
- MUURI Anu
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(2), April 2010, pp.182-193.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article investigates the attitudes of citizens and clients to social welfare services and social security benefits in Finland. The article starts by overviewing the previous welfare-state studies relating especially to the theoretical perspectives of self-interest and legitimacy. This is followed by empirical analysis of data from a Finnish national survey entitled ‘Welfare and Services in Finland’ conducted at the end of 2006, measuring responses to questions on attitudes to social welfare services and to social security benefits. This results indicated: that a different operation of self-interest can only weakly explain the differences in attitudes between services and benefits; that there is general support for Finnish social welfare services and social security benefits, which, however, is mixed with growing criticism among women and pensioners who are supposed to benefit most from the welfare policies; and that such determinants of attitude as gender, use and, to some extent, lifecycle have become as important as class-related factors such as income and education.