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Public Attitudes toward Family Policies in Europe

Linking Institutional Context and Public Opinion

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  1. Monika Mischke

    1. Siegen, Deutschland

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  • Publication in the field of social sciences
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Family-policy variation in Europe is still enormous and there is very limited knowledge about the publics’ attitudes toward family-policy measures in a comparative perspective. This book addresses this research gap by combing a profound analysis of existing family-policy measures with a thorough analysis of public attitudes. Based on institutional theory, which argues that institutions structure the processes of orientation, the empirical analyses shed light on the relationship between the current family-policy setup, the social context, and public attitudes toward particular family-policy measures in 12 countries of the European Union. The results demonstrate that the social context needs to be taken into account in order to improve our understanding of attitudinal variation among different countries and family-policy contexts. Moreover, this book points out that only few patterns of social polarization are quasi universal whereas many others are specific to individual countries or certain groups of countries.

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-10
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  2. Introduction

    • Monika Mischke
    Pages 11-23

  3. Theoretical background and literature review

    • Monika Mischke
    Pages 25-74

  4. Family policies in Europe – a cluster analysis

    • Monika Mischke
    Pages 75-101

  5. Family policies and public opinion

    • Monika Mischke
    Pages 103-127

  6. Family policy, contextual features, and public opinion

    • Monika Mischke
    Pages 129-155

  7. Social cleavages within European welfare states

    • Monika Mischke
    Pages 157-204

  8. Summary and discussion

    • Monika Mischke
    Pages 205-227

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 229-240
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Siegen, Deutschland

    Monika Mischke

About the author

Monika Mischke holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Mannheim and is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at Siegen University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Public Attitudes toward Family Policies in Europe

  • Book Subtitle: Linking Institutional Context and Public Opinion

  • Authors: Monika Mischke

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03577-8

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-03576-1Published: 13 September 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-03577-8Published: 04 September 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 240

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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