How politicians created, rather than reacted to, negative public opinion on benefits
O'Grady, Tom
(2017)
How politicians created, rather than reacted to, negative public opinion on benefits
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Using House of Commons speeches on welfare from the late 1980s to 2015, Tom O’Grady finds that declining support for the benefits system was a top-down phenomenon. Shifts in political rhetoric – especially from Labour – did not occur after public opinion changed, but took place slightly before the public was changing its mind about benefits.
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