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The social legitimacy of basic income: a multidimensional and cross-national perspective. An introduction to the special issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

Joe Chrisp Open the ORCID record for Joe Chrisp [Opens in a new window] ,
Tijs Laenen  and
Wim van Oorschot
Joe Chrisp*
Affiliation:
Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Tijs Laenen
Affiliation:
Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Wim van Oorschot
Affiliation:
Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Email: joe.chrisp@uib.no
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Abstract

In this special issue, authors present and discuss the findings of a series of recent national and EU cross-national empirical studies on public support for basic income. As such, the special issue offers new and innovative insights on such support and its individual and contextual drivers. The articles employ heterogeneous data and methods and therefore, as a whole, navigate the multi-dimensional nature of (opinions on) basic income. Three of the contributions use unique survey data to study the levels of support for basic income among various European populations and the complex ideological and social divides that explain such support. The other two contributions use qualitative data, from democratic fora, focus groups and in-depth interviews, to explore how citizens interpret basic income and what types of arguments they use in favour or against the implementation of the policy.

Keywords

Basic incomepublic opinionmulti-dimensionalitywelfare state
Type
Research Article
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Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy , Volume 36 , Special Issue 3: Special issue: The Social Legitimacy of Basic Income: A Multidimensional and Cross-national Perspective , November 2020 , pp. 217 - 222
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Social Policy Association

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