Moral Foundations of Welfare Attitudes: The Role of Moral Intuition and Reasoning in Pursuing Social Justice
The article interconnects the research on welfare attitudes and welfare chauvinism with moral psychology in order to develop an interdisciplinary analytical approach designed for studying attitudes to welfare policies and potentially overcoming the divisions prevalent in many European democracies. I...
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| description | The article interconnects the research on welfare attitudes and welfare chauvinism with moral psychology in order to develop an interdisciplinary analytical approach designed for studying attitudes to welfare policies and potentially overcoming the divisions prevalent in many European democracies. It introduces Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) - an empirical approach to analysing intuitions, reasoning, and emotions constituting moral judgment - and outlines its understanding of competing versions of fairness and distributive justice. The potential contributions of MFT are exemplified on a case study situated in contemporary Slovakia which deals with two conflicting conceptions of fairness, as equity and as equality, embodied in the diverging attitudes towards an amendment to the Act on the Assistance in Material Need (2013). The article argues that MFT and related research programmes are irreplaceable components in an interdisciplinary study of the plurality of welfare policy attitudes. It also highlights the transformative potential of MFT and related research programmes in devising interventions aimed at changing (political) attitudes to welfare and reducing their polarisation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68ea8c52bfaa4517a8eb06ec5e7030142022-12-22T02:49:30ZengSciendoCentral European Journal of Public Policy1802-48662015-12-0192728310.1515/cejpp-2016-0013cejpp-2016-0013Moral Foundations of Welfare Attitudes: The Role of Moral Intuition and Reasoning in Pursuing Social JusticeFindor Andrej0Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Social and Economic SciencesThe article interconnects the research on welfare attitudes and welfare chauvinism with moral psychology in order to develop an interdisciplinary analytical approach designed for studying attitudes to welfare policies and potentially overcoming the divisions prevalent in many European democracies. It introduces Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) - an empirical approach to analysing intuitions, reasoning, and emotions constituting moral judgment - and outlines its understanding of competing versions of fairness and distributive justice. The potential contributions of MFT are exemplified on a case study situated in contemporary Slovakia which deals with two conflicting conceptions of fairness, as equity and as equality, embodied in the diverging attitudes towards an amendment to the Act on the Assistance in Material Need (2013). The article argues that MFT and related research programmes are irreplaceable components in an interdisciplinary study of the plurality of welfare policy attitudes. It also highlights the transformative potential of MFT and related research programmes in devising interventions aimed at changing (political) attitudes to welfare and reducing their polarisation.http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cejpp.2015.9.issue-2/cejpp-2016-0013/cejpp-2016-0013.xml?format=INTwelfare attitudesmoral judgementintuitionreasoningfairnessequalityequityMoral Foundations Theory |
| spellingShingle | Findor Andrej Moral Foundations of Welfare Attitudes: The Role of Moral Intuition and Reasoning in Pursuing Social Justice Central European Journal of Public Policy welfare attitudes moral judgement intuition reasoning fairness equality equity Moral Foundations Theory |
| title | Moral Foundations of Welfare Attitudes: The Role of Moral Intuition and Reasoning in Pursuing Social Justice |
| title_full | Moral Foundations of Welfare Attitudes: The Role of Moral Intuition and Reasoning in Pursuing Social Justice |
| title_fullStr | Moral Foundations of Welfare Attitudes: The Role of Moral Intuition and Reasoning in Pursuing Social Justice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Moral Foundations of Welfare Attitudes: The Role of Moral Intuition and Reasoning in Pursuing Social Justice |
| title_short | Moral Foundations of Welfare Attitudes: The Role of Moral Intuition and Reasoning in Pursuing Social Justice |
| title_sort | moral foundations of welfare attitudes the role of moral intuition and reasoning in pursuing social justice |
| topic | welfare attitudes moral judgement intuition reasoning fairness equality equity Moral Foundations Theory |
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