Кто и почему ищет государственной поддержки в новой России?

Мир России: Социология, этнология. 2020. Т. 29. № 1. С. 31–52.

Anikin V. A., Lezhnina Y. P., Mareeva S., Slobodenyuk E.

The paper addresses the question, what is the underling nature of the Russians’ demand for the state support in three fields such as labour market and employment, social investments, and material support. Based on the recent findings from social policy studies, the authors have tested four different mechanisms, which are as follows: (a) demographic features of the population, (b) household incomes and disposable assets including human and social capital, (c) interests, and (d) locus control and cultural settings. Drawing on the all-Russia representative Monitoring survey conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2018, the authors argued that population’s demands for the state support has very complex nature. Moreover, the relative impact of income has a paradoxical nature. On the one hand, the Russian data confirm the hypothesis of ‘altruistic reach’ developed in recent studies, which predicts that, in societies with high inequalities, higher incomes boost the probability of demands for the redistributive settings. On the other hand, higher incomes foster state escapism of those Russians who do not consider state as a reliable agent capable to solve their problems.

Keywords: социальная политика, государственная политика занятости, social policy, государственная поддержка, государство всеобщего благосостояния, welfare state, solidarity, social investments, government support, New Russia, employability, state and society, redistribution, statism, социальное инвестирование, новая Россия

Publication based on the results of: Mobilization and improvement in human capital of the middle class and vulnerable groups (2019)