... . Attitudes Climate change Environmental policy Welfare Europe As public concerns about climate change grow, public attitudes on environmental policies have received growing scholarly attention (e.g. Bohnenberger, 2023 ; Wetts, 2023). Environmental policies encompass a range of measures...

...Huong Le Purpose Religiosity remains one of the most consistent predictors of moral conservatism in contemporary Europe, particularly in shaping public attitudes toward homosexuality (Lin et al., 2021; Janssen and Scheepers, 2019). Drawing on data from Round 9 (2018) of the European...

... the role of family obligations in women's ability to realise their learning interests and how this differs across societal and institutional contexts across Europe. Design/methodology/approach The paper makes use of the second wave of Adult Education Survey from 2011, including data from 22 European...

... preferences for means-tested welfare provision in a comparative context. In addition, one of the contextual variables used in the analysis – the proportion of means-tested social benefits out of the total expenditure on social benefits – is unique to this study. Europe Public opinion Selectivity...

... Europe Parenting-related leaves typically refer to maternity leave, paternity leave and parental leave (developed from childcare leave) [1] . Maternity leave is primarily the mother's right (it provides health protection for the mother and infant), while paternity leave is granted to fathers...

... East. Leave provision for men is found most often in higher income countries. The purpose of this paper is to review the development of leave policies in Europe, both at a regional and national level, and to consider what future directions such policies might take to meet changing conditions...

... and people who are not, rather than acknowledging the cultural nomadism of Gypsies and Travellers. The findings are useful beyond the UK context as they help to explain why Gypsies, Travellers and Roma in wider Europe remain excluded within states despite extensive European initiatives for inclusion...

.... The overall conclusions will not apply to every sport in every country. Sport flourishes when it adapts to historical trends. Updates all previous reviews. Financial crisis Europe Sport Leisure policy This paper considers how sport in Europe is faring during this era of austerity...

... ; Inglehart and Baker, 2000 ; House et al., 2002); an overview of approaches and classifications can be found, for example, in Taras et al. (2009) . Europe Culture Social capital Religion Social capital has been actively dealt with in the literature over the past decades...

... equally enhance conflict when standardizing employer demands and thus leaving little room for flexible adaptation in case of need. Work‐life balance Perceived conflict Flexible employment Europe Gender Work arrangements Control Work preferences Welfare state comparison Economic crisis...

... of the use of flexible employment and its relationship with work‐family conflict and a number of specific country case studies from Southern Europe where recession has been particularly severe (Spain and Italy) and the Southern hemisphere (Australia) where the recession has been less deep. It finds...

...Marios Vryonides; Iasonas Lamprianou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors that affect progression to university education across Europe. Design/methodology/approach The data used are obtained from the fourth round of the European Social Survey (2008). Findings...

...Yanxia Zhang; Wei‐Jun. Jean Yeung; Mary Daly Purpose This article provides an overview and analysis of care as a concept and object of policy makers' attention in Europe, mindful especially of the lessons that can be drawn from the European experience. The aim of this paper is to set out...

... the concepts of social care and the welfare/care diamond. Findings The introduction summarizes the variations in regard to the governance and provision of care between different Asian countries and compares the differences in the state involvement between Asia and Europe. Originality/value The authors...

...Marina Hennig; Thomas P. Boje; Anders Ejrnæs Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a typology of different family policy systems in Europe and evaluate their impact on the employment strategy of mothers with care responsibilities for dependent children. Design/methodology/approach...

... This paper outlines broad trends in the governance of activation policies in Europe, focusing on processes of decentralization and centralization in Sweden (characterized by a context of shifting national and local level governance of policies, cultivated within a strong tradition of active labour market...

..., the key objective of the European Employment Strategy has been primarily full employment (with quantified and standardised employment rate targets [1] which were revamped by the Europe 2020 initiative) through activation which has particularly been at the heart also of more recent EU initiatives...

... framework for discussion and further research on the implications of different forms of governance on the content and delivery of activation services in Europe. Governance Activation New Public Management Public employment service Performance measurement Fuzzy set Europe All over Europe...

... division of tasks between PES and municipalities continues to exist. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Activation Governance Marketization Quasi‐markets Europe Unemployment Undoubtedly, the introduction of markets for the provision of social services is the most salient...

... effects Outcome effects Governance Europe Government policy We will not discuss the reforms for each country separately, because we have reported these reforms elsewhere (van Berkel et al., 2011). We will try on the contrary to group the countries according to some main...