%0 Journal Article
%T Welfare Attitudes and Expressions of (Trans)national Solidarity
%A Anna Kurowska
%A Johannes M. Kiess
%A Olga Eisele
%J American Behavioral Scientist
%@ 1552-3381
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0002764218823843
%X The article explores the extent to which Europeans¡¯ welfare attitudes explain (trans)national solidarity behavior. We set our analyses against the backdrop of the broader debate of welfare state consequences: Does a strong welfare state that is considered to take care of those in need diminish or strengthen citizens¡¯ motivations to become engaged in helping others? We distinguish individuals¡¯ solidarity behavior toward others within the welfare state, that is, citizens within one¡¯s country, and outside the welfare state community of the respondents¡¯ particular country. We further distinguish different others outside the welfare state, that is, between refugees, taking the refugee crisis in the European Union (EU) as a prime example, and citizens living in other countries¡ªin EU countries and non-EU countries. As far as the main explanatory variables are concerned, we derive from the concept of ¡°multidimensional welfare attitudes¡± and focus on five crucial dimensions of these attitudes, that is, welfare goals, range, degree, redistribution, and outcome. We draw on data collected within the EU project TransSOL and calculate a set of multilevel logistic regression models controlling for a wide range of individual (sociodemographic, economic, and political) variables. Overall, we observe that a ¡°crowding in¡± effect, that is, higher support of the welfare state, goes in line with solidarity activity toward others including both ¡°outsiders¡± and ¡°insiders¡± of the national community
%K welfarism
%K welfare attitudes
%K solidarity
%K economic crisis
%K refugees
%K attitudes
%K behaviors
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0002764218823843