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Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Communism, slavery and social policy: Investigating the role of worker agency in the development of work-injury laws globally(2021)This paper discusses the impact of worker agency on adoption of national policies to protect against work-injury. It uses the lenses of communist revolution and colonial forced labour to shed light on this relationship. Some common elements in the experiences, livelihoods, opportunities and structures among successful communist revolutions and colonially imposed production systems should lead to more or less collective risk-pooling in a society as a result of worker agency; thus, to faster or slower adoption of full-coverage work-injury policies. The main empirical analysis is a regression predicting how long it takes a country to transition from a first work-injury law to a policy that provides risk pooling and full-coverage for blue-collar workers. The test variables are whether a country was communist and the year that both slavery and forced labour became illegal. The sample is a cross-sectional analysis of 173 countries using data from the late 1800s until 2020. These findings have potential value in guiding if not motivating future work on worker agency in macro-comparative statistical research, and for filling in some empirical blind spots of macro-theories on social policy and work-injury law specifically.BuchBand:1523 155 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Global Work-Injury Policy Database (GWIP): Project Overview and Codebook(2020-09); The Global Work-Injury Policy Database (GWIP) provides data on the introduction and development of work-injury policy in 186 independent nation states. Work-injury policies were historically known as “workmen’s compensation”, "workman's compensation" and sometimes “accident insurance” among policymakers and scholars. The data include year of introduction of first laws, the types of laws, coverage of blue-collar workers and steps on the path to social insurance laws.BerichtBand:4181 155 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Public Opinion and Social Policy(2013-05-30); ; ; An investigation of public opinion and social policy. This dissertation looks at how attitudes toward social welfare policies are formed, and their reciprocal relationship with spending on welfare. The perspective is cross-national and looks at the most advanced democracies in the world, plus two formerly Communist countries. The dissertation utilizes theoretical frameworks from sociology, social psychology and political science. It concludes that self-interest, group dynamics and ideology are driving forces behind opinion and attitude formation, although ideology may be even more important. Also, that social norms related to Communism or socialism, individualism and corporatism shape public opinions. Finally, it concludes that although public opinion probably has an impact on social policy, this does not appear to be a general impact across democratic societies. Instead, institutional norms align opinion and policy into a cross-national pattern. The stability of social spending indicates that path dependency of policy impacts the otherwise erratic nature of public opinion.Dissertation418 311