Social Policy Retrenchment Effect on Political Participation: Cases of Russia and the UK

Student: Diukareva Mariia

Supervisor: Nina Y. Belyaeva

Educational Programme: Political Analysis and Public Policy (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2017

In this paper, the author explores the interrelation between welfare retrenchment and citizenship political participation, namely how the structural restraints of the institutional settings either enhance or disrupt participation as individuals' reaction to the reduction of social provision from the state, by the example of two liberal welfare states with different political systems – United Kingdom and Russia.

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