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KMID : 1001320170440040035
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Social Welfare Policy
2017 Volume.44 No. 4 p.35 ~ p.66
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A comparative study on the ambivalence of public opinion toward government spending
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Kim Sa-Hyun
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Abstract
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This study explored the causes of ambivalent attitudes toward government spending, focusing specifically on the influence of government welfare expenditure levels in a comparative perspective. Previous studies have shown that ambivalence of welfare attitude tends to be found primarily in psychological internal conflicts. However, sociological explanations for ambivalent attitude emphasize more structural and contextual aspects. From this perspective, this study predicted that ambivalent attitude on government spending is influenced by the inconsistency between the dominant beliefs of society that are oriented toward small government and the individual self-interest and ideology related to welfare policy at the individual level, and the social conditions according to the level of welfare development at the national level. In this study, ISSP: Role of Government IV data from 17 OECD countries was used for empirical analysis using a multilevel ordered logistic model. As a result, the probability of ambivalent attitude was high in the aged, low education, and right-wing party support groups at the individual level and in societies where the welfare expenditure level of government is low at the national level. These results suggest that there is a structured ambivalence of welfare attitudes related to the welfare policy of the government.
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KEYWORD
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welfare attitude, ambivalence, duality, government spending, welfare expenditure, comparative study, value conflict, multilevel ordered logistic regression
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