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No common ground? Public knowledge about welfare spending in Turkey and its social divisions

Yilmaz, Volkan ORCID: 0000-0002-9283-3020 and Gurbuzturk, Anil (2021) No common ground? Public knowledge about welfare spending in Turkey and its social divisions. Social Policy and Society . ISSN 1474-7464

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Abstract

Social policy research examining citizens’ welfare knowledge, which offers a gateway to their understanding of the policy context, has remained limited. Adapting the opportunity–motivation–ability framework borrowed from the literature on political knowledge to welfare knowledge, this article offers an analysis of new data from a nationwide survey to explore Turkish society’s knowledge of the composition of public social spending. Corroborating earlier findings in the literature, the article maintains that most people in Turkey overestimate the relative size of social assistance spending for the poor. However, different from previous findings, the majority and most pensioners are also ill-informed about the rank of public spending on old-age pensions, the most widely used social benefit absorbing the largest share of welfare spending. The article provides evidence of the social division of welfare knowledge in Turkish society based mostly on three opportunity-related variables: city of residence, gender and income.

Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Political knowledge; social spending; welfare knowledge; welfare spending; Turkey
Subjects:Social Sciences > Political science
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746421000695
Copyright Information:© The Authors. Open Access (CC-BY-4.0)
ID Code:26495
Deposited On:01 Dec 2021 16:53 by Dr. Volkan Yilmaz . Last Modified 01 Dec 2021 16:53

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