The social division of welfare knowledge: policy stratification and perceptions of welfare reform in Australia
研究澳大利亚选民对福利政策变化的认知，发现他们更易察觉对中产阶级的慷慨，却低估了底层群体面临的更严苛政策，这种认知偏差对福利国家政治社会学提出新问题。
During its period in office (1996–2007), the Liberal–National coalition government increased stratification in the Australian welfare system by differentiating the norms and instruments applied to claimants groups. This article explores whether Australians accurately registered these developments by comparing voter assessments of policy generosity to different groups with an objective assessment of the direction of policy change. We find that voters were more likely to have recognised increased generosity to the middle class, and to have underestimated the tougher policies faced by some groups at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale. Their misrecognition of hardship raises broader questions for the political sociology of the welfare state.