Titlebook: Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below; Comparing Public Att Bernhard Ebbinghaus,Elias Naumann Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and T

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Membership or Influence Logic? The Response of Organized Interests to Retirement Age Reforms in Britssue. The results confirm expectations and show an overall alignment of policy positions along a labour/capital divide. Nevertheless, policy positions of individual organizations are revealed as more complex since similar organizations differ in their positioning depending on the country.

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Class, Union, or Party Allegiance? Comparing Pension Reform Preferences in Britain and Germany redistributive character of the pensions system but less variation with regard to retrenchment of pension benefits. Political affiliations show also more variation than social classes, indicating that ideological alignment is more pronounced than social class.

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Trust in Ageing Societies: Confidence in Pensions Across Europeis correlated with higher confidence in pensions, whereas unemployment risks and insecure career prospects are linked to lower confidence. The study does not find evidence that political parties or trade unions influence their members’ confidence in pensions.

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Increasing Conflict in Times of Retrenchment? Attitudes Towards Healthcare Provision in Europe Betwepter also looks at conflict lines within society. Observing stability, not change, the study does not find evidence that the relevance of old cleavages is in decline. Both old and new cleavages shape individual attitudes.

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Between Power and Persuasion: Explaining the Introduction of Statutory Minimum Wage Laws in Britain cessfully persuaded a large majority of the party’s base about the appropriateness of a minimum wage floor. The Tories, in turn, not only upheld the (previously much disliked) SMW, but introduced a National Living Wage in 2015 as part of David Cameron’s ‘progressive conservative’ and ‘big society’ narratives.

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Demand for Healthcare Reform by Public Opinion and Medical Professionals: A Comparative Survey Analyng reforms. The Netherlands and Britain are the countries with the lowest level of reform demand, possibly because they have experienced a long period of large-scale health reforms. The USA represents the other extreme with widespread reform demand.

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Conclusion: The Influence from Below—How Organized Interests and Public Attitudes Shape Welfare Statns and values in shaping public opinion and organized interests. The conclusion also reviews some methodological innovations on how to study the linkages between organized interests and public opinion. Finally, the editors draw some societal and policy implications.