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AbstractWhy do governments recognize rights? In this article, we rely on natural experiments and an innovative matching technique to identify a new causal mechanism of policy feedback, which we refer to as the "recognition" effect. We rely on the "hard case" of health care to demonstrate that attitudes towards the health system change in response to government policy change and, indeed, even to rights‐based initiatives. During the time when public opinion surveys on public satisfaction with the health system were in the field, governments in both Germany and Sweden introduced a new right: the right to a maximum waiting time for health services. This serendipity allowed us to compare respondents' attitudes both before (control) and after the implementation of the waiting time guarantee (treatment), using coarsened exact matching to account for the imbalances in the treatment and control groups. We find that respondents interviewed after implementation of the new waiting time guarantees (in contrast to those interviewed before the introduction of the guarantees) express higher levels of satisfaction with the health system in general, but do not evaluate their specific medical treatment (including waiting times) more positively. We interpret this finding as evidence that citizens respond to governmental recognition of their rights as a good per se, independent of their personal experience with the particular public service at hand. Thus, we argue that theories of policy feedback need to move beyond their focus on direct material experience with the policies at hand, and to incorporate mechanisms of symbolic action and normative valuations into their causal models.

First published: 24 April 2018 ; This is an open access article under the terms of the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), which permits use, distribution and repro-duction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ; Why do governments recognize rights? In this article, we rely on natural experiments and an innovative matching technique to identify a new causal mechanism of policy feedback, which we refer to as the "recognition" effect. We rely on the "hard case" of health care to demonstrate that attitudes towards the health system change in response to government policy change and, indeed, even to rights‐based initiatives. During the time when public opinion surveys on public satisfaction with the health system were in the field, governments in both Germany and Sweden introduced a new right: the right to a maximum waiting time for health services. This serendipity allowed us to compare respondents' attitudes both before (control) and after the implementation of the waiting time guarantee (treatment), using coarsened exact matching to account for the imbalances in the treatment and control groups. We find that respondents interviewed after implementation of the new waiting time guarantees (in contrast to those interviewed before the introduction of the guarantees) express higher levels of satisfaction with the health system in general, but do not evaluate their specific medical treatment (including waiting times) more positively. We interpret this finding as evidence that citizens respond to governmental recognition of their rights as a good per se, independent of their personal experience with the particular public service at hand. Thus, we argue that theories of policy feedback need to move beyond their focus on direct material experience with the policies at hand, and to incorporate mechanisms of symbolic action and normative valuations into their causal models.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. Class Conflicts and Institutional Feedback Effects in Liberal and Social Democratic Welfare Regimes: Attitudes toward State Redistribution and Welfare Policy in Six Western Countries -- CHAPTER THREE. Overloaded or Undermined? European Welfare States in the Face of Performance Dissatisfaction -- CHAPTER FOUR. Social Risk, Policy Dissatisfaction, and Political Alienation: A Comparison of Six European Countries -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Relationship between Public Service Dissatisfaction and Political Action: Does Institutional Design Matter? -- CHAPTER SIX. Class and Attitudes to Market Inequality: A Comparison of Sweden, Britain, Germany, and the United States -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Are We the People? National Sentiments in a Changing Political Landscape -- Conclusion: The Past and Future of Political Sociology -- INDEX -- STUDIES IN SOCIAL INEQUALITY

Ausgewählte Variablen zur Parteieneinschätzung und zu politischen
Fragen aus nationalen Wahlstudien.
Die Kumulation ist als Datenbank konzipiert und enthält die Daten der
European Voter Database.

Themen: Politikinteresse und Engagement: Medienkonsum: Fernsehen, Radio
und Zeitung; Diskussionen in der Familie, mit Freunden und Kollegen;
Politikinteresse; Wahrnehmbarkeit der Politik als: zu kompliziert, zu
wenig Wissen, Politiker kümmern sich zu wenig, richtige Entscheidungen
von Politikern; Parteimitglied; Parteiidentifikation und deren Stärke;
Sympathie für Parteien und Parteivorsitzende; Selbsteinschätzung und
Einschätzung ausgewählter Parteien auf einem Links-Rechts-Kontinuum;
Einschätzung der nationalen ökonomischen Situation; Wahlverhalten;
Postmaterialismus; Issue-Relevanz.

Demographie: Land; Wahljahr; Geschlecht; Geburtsjahr;
Schichtzugehörigkeit; höchste abgeschlossene Bildung; Beruf;
Haushaltsvorstand; Eigenheimbesitzer; Beschäftigungsstatus;
Beschäftigung im öffentlichen Dienst; eigenes und
Haushaltsbruttoeinkommen; Religion; Kirchgangshäufigkeit.