Open AccessIndividual Perceptions of the Value of Leisure: The Influence of the Social Democratic Welfare State and Leftist Values Systems
Author(s) -
Craig Webster,
Chih-Lun Yen,
Sotiris Hji-Avgoustis
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european journal of tourism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1314-0817
pISSN - 1994-7658
DOI - 10.54055/ejtr.v24i.404
Subject(s) - ideology , welfare state , democracy , left wing politics , sociology , politics , marxist philosophy , value (mathematics) , population , world values survey , social psychology , political science , psychology , law , demography , machine learning , computer science
In this work, the authors intend to show that a population’s experience with Marxist governance and an individual’s political ideology conditions individual perceptions of the value of leisure. The authors look into the cross-national variations of the perception of the value that individuals place on leisure, using a database with over 84,000 observations from the World Values Survey from 2010-2014. The authors postulate that Marxist leisure values that have permeated societies either via social democratic welfare states or a socialist welfare state experience create expectations for leisure and that the individual’s self-identification on a left/right political spectrum plays a role in influencing perceptions of the importance of leisure. Several individual-level indicators are used, to ensure that individual-level explanations are taken into account. The authors show that placing value upon leisure is influenced by social democratic regimes and a person’s political ideology on a left/right continuum.