LEADER 04222nam 2200661z 450 001 9910629277103321 005 20250628110037.0 010 $a3-658-39422-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-658-39422-6 035 $a(CKB)5700000000299883 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-658-39422-6 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/94980 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7135382 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7135382 035 $a(OCoLC)1352975189 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010074072 035 $a(oapen)doab94980 035 $a(EXLCZ)995700000000299883 100 $a20221112d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Independent Variable Problem $eWelfare Stateness as an Explanatory Concept /$fby Katharina Kunißen 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 $aWiesbaden$cSpringer Nature$d2023 210 1$aWiesbaden :$cSpringer Fachmedien Wiesbaden :$cImprint: Springer VS,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (XIII, 224 p. 35 illus. Textbook for German language market.) 225 1 $aSozialstrukturanalyse,$x2662-2955 311 08$a3-658-39421-8 327 $aIntroduction -- Premises: perspectives on the welfare state -- The welfare state as an independent variable: debates, pitfalls, potentials -- Literature review: mechanisms and hypotheses -- Welfare stateness as an explanatory concept -- Welfare stateness as an explanatory variable: empirical illustration -- Towards solving the independent variable problem -- Reference. 330 $aThis open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable. To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual behaviour, attitudes and more in different countries, an empirical operationalisation of the welfare state or specific elements of social policy is required. However, this operationalisation is fraught with some important problems. These problems essentially relate to one point: while there are a large number of contributions dealing with the measurement of differences between welfare states per se and as a dependent variable, there is a lack of feasible recommendations for a standardised operationalisation of welfare stateness as an independent variable. So far, there has been no systematic investigation of how such different approaches may affect the results and their comparability. Also missing is an in-depth conceptual discussion of which features of the welfare state are particularly relevant for explaining certain effects. This book fills both gaps. First, it exposes the pitfalls of existing approaches and shows how much empirical results can vary depending on the operationalisation chosen. Second, it proposes a framework for a standardised conceptualisation and operationalisation of social policies as independent variables that constrains operational decisions in a theoretically meaningful way. About the author Katharina Kunißen worked as a research associate at the Institute of Sociology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her main research interests include social inequality and comparative welfare state research. She has been working at the Federal Statistical Office since 2019. . 410 0$aSozialstrukturanalyse,$x2662-2955 606 $aPolitical sociology 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aDeviant behavior 606 $aSocial control 606 $aPolitical Sociology 606 $aPolicy Evaluation 606 $aDeviance and Social Control 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 615 0$aPolitical planning. 615 0$aDeviant behavior. 615 0$aSocial control. 615 14$aPolitical Sociology. 615 24$aPolicy Evaluation. 615 24$aDeviance and Social Control. 676 $a306.2 686 $aPOL028000$aSOC000000$aSOC026000$2bisacsh 700 $aKunißen$b Katharina$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01271680 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910629277103321 996 $aThe Independent Variable Problem$92995725 997 $aUNINA