How does the public decide who is deserving of welfare benefits? To shed light on this question, we investigate whether the CARIN principles of deservingness—specifically the ideas of control, attitude, reciprocity, identity, and need—impact the public's perception of American welfare target groups. We draw contrast between traditional welfare programs and pandemic-related programs to gain a more comparative understanding of the principles' effects as well as to determine what role the pandemic may play in shaping welfare perceptions. We report that positive, deserving social constructions exist for recipients of both traditional and pandemic-related welfare programs, and we find evidence that the distinction between traditional and pandemic-related programs is important for deservingness perceptions in the US. Overall, these results suggest the importance of the CARIN criteria in an American context.

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在 COVID-19 大流行期间谁应得什么以及为什么应得：将应得的 CARIN 原则应用于美国福利国家

公众如何决定谁应该享受福利？为了阐明这个问题，我们调查了 CARIN 的应得原则——特别是控制、态度、互惠、身份和需求的观念——是否影响公众对美国福利目标群体的看法。我们将传统福利计划与大流行病相关计划进行对比，以获得对原则效果的更多比较理解，并确定大流行病在塑造福利观念方面可能发挥的作用。我们报告说，传统福利计划和与流行病相关的福利计划的接受者都存在积极的、值得的社会结构，我们发现有证据表明，传统计划和与流行病相关的计划之间的区别对于美国的应得观念很重要。全面的，