Deservingness, Self-Interest and the Welfare State: Why Some Care More about Deservingness than Others and Why It Matters
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Social policy preferences; Deservingness; Self interest; Heuristic; Welfare state reform;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2017-03-19 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2017-03-19 (Positive Political Economics)
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