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Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Research Question -- 1.2. Structure Of The Book -- 2. Welfare State Research: The Theoretical Background For The Research Question -- 2.1. Theories Of Welfare State Development -- 2.2. Empirical Development Of Western Welfare States -- 2.3. Public Support For The Welfare State -- 2.4. My Research Question Embedded In The Welfare State Literature -- 3. Electoral Research And Issue Voting: The Theoretical Background For The Analyses -- 3.1. Issue Voting Theory -- 3.2. Categorizations Of Issue Effects -- 3.3. Issue Salience, Attitude Accessibility And The Link Between Attitudes And Behaviour -- 3.4. Empirical Evidence For Issue Voting -- 3.5. Some Concluding Remarks -- 3.6. My Research Question In An Electoral Research Framework -- 4. The Context: More Theoretical Background For The Analyses -- 4.1. Individuals Nested In Contexts. 4.2. The Clarity Of Responsibility -- 4.3. The Welfare State Environment -- 4.4. The Electoral Campaign -- 4.5. The Context And Implications For My Research Question -- 5. Research Strategy, Design And Method -- 5.1. Elaboration Of Research Steps And Main Hypotheses -- 5.2. Research Strategy -- 5.3. Research Design: Data And Time Period -- 5.4. Two Theoretical Models -- 5.5. Practical Issues: The Theoretical Models And The Actual Data -- 5.6. Method -- 6. The Salience And Performance Of Social Policy In Times Of Permanent Austerity -- 6.1. The Salience Of Social Policy -- 6.2. The Performance Of Social Policy -- 6.3. Summary -- 7. The Impact Of Social Policy Attitudes On The Incumbent Vote -- 7.1. The Impact Of Social Policy Salience -- 7.2. The Impact Of Social Policy Performance -- 7.3. The Impact Of Social Policy Salience And Performance On Defection From Incumbent Vote -- 7.4. Summary Of Evidence Of Social Policy Attitudes. 7.5. The Impact Of The Context On The Relationship Between Social Policy Attitudes And The Incumbent Vote -- 7.6. Summary Of Evidence For Contextual Influences -- 8. Welfare State Retrenchment And The Incumbent Performance In Social Policy -- 8.1. Individual-level Factors And Contextual Controls -- 8.2. The Influence Of Welfare State Reforms -- 8.3. Summary -- 9. Re-election At Stake? The Impact Of Social Policy On The Election Outcome -- 9.1. The Relative Influence Of The Issue Of Social Policy -- 9.2. The Relative Influence Of Social Policy Performance -- 9.3. Welfare State Retrenchment And The Campaign Salience Of Social Policy -- 9.4. The Influence Of Social Policy On Real-world Government Composition -- 9.5. Summary -- 10. Discussion Of Results And Conclusion -- 10.1. Joint Discussion Of Results -- 10.2. General Implications For The Literature -- 10.3. Future Research Proposals. Nathalie Giger. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.