When faced with the necessity of reforming welfare states in ageing societies, politicians tend to demand more solidarity between generations because they assume that reforms require sacrifices from older people. Political economy models, however, do not investigate such a mechanism of...

This chapter presents an analysis of the impacts of family policy regimes and of family solidarity on young people’s attitudes towards public childcare across 21 advanced industrial democracies. We test these explanations by applying binary logit regressions to the ISSP Social Networks II...

This article studies local processes of policy feedback by analyzing citizens’ fairness perceptions of public childcare fees in a German town. Employing an experimental vignette study, we uncover complex feedback effects: First, citizens in the study regard a fee level as fair that is close to...