Welfare chauvinism

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Welfare chauvinism or welfare state nationalism is the political notion that

unemployed. The focus is placed on categorizing state residents in two extremes: the "nourishing" and "debilitating" and the contradiction between them in the competition for the society's scarce resources.[1][2][3]

Background

The term welfare chauvinism was first used in social science in the 1990 paper "Structural changes and new cleavages: The progress parties in Denmark and Norway" by Jørgen Goul Andersen and Tor Bjørklund. The authors described it as the notion that "welfare services should be restricted to our own".[4][5]

"Nourishing" and "debilitating"

In the description of society and the problems of the welfare state,

immigrants, the unemployed, welfare recipients and others. As such, welfare is seen as a system with embedded exclusion mechanisms.[2][3]

Right-wing populists and welfare chauvinism

According to welfare chauvinists, the safety nets of the welfare state are for those whom they believe belong in the community. By the right-wing populist standard, affiliations with society are based in national, cultural and ethnic or racial aspects. Considered to be included in the category are those that are regarded as nourishing. The debilitating group (primarily immigrants) is considered to be outside of society and to be unjustly utilizing the welfare system.

ethnically homogeneous native population,[1] preferably children and the elderly.[7]

The same principle of argument is, according to the academics

xenophobic arguments.[8][9]

Political parties and welfare chauvinism

Examples of contemporary political parties and groups that use, or used, a welfare chauvinist argumentation strategy: the

One Nation in Australia, Lega Nord in Italy, the Coalition Avenir Québec in Canada, the Party for Freedom in The Netherlands, and some branches/factions of the Republican Party
in the United States.

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c Rydgren 2005
  2. ^ a b Mény & Surel 2002
  3. ^ a b c Rydgren & Widfeldt 2004
  4. ^ Linda Besner (7 February 2013): Why the Dutch Vote for Geert Wilders Archived 2013-07-30 at archive.today Randomhouse.ca, retrieved 31 July 2013
  5. JStor
    , retrieved 31 July 2013
  6. ^ Kitschelt 1997
  7. ^ Lodenius 2010
  8. ^ Scheepers, Gijsberts & Coenders 2002
  9. ^ Oesch 2008
  10. ^ Jefferson Chase (2017-09-24). "Everything you need to Know about Alternative for Germany". DeutscheWelle.

Literature list