...Gokhan Savas; Fatma Yol Purpose This study investigates the factors shaping public attitudes toward immigration in the United States, focusing on how demographic, ideological, and perceptual variables—such as education, political ideology, social trust, and awareness of discrimination—jointly...

... 01 2025 15 04 2025 23 04 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Agency Ethnography Social trust Bureaucracy Family policies Social welfare delivery Participant recruitment for the Romanian component took...

... literature to frame a comparison of two regions’ cultural and theological roots, identifying contrasts to make arguments about prescriptions for contemporary welfare policy. Findings We find Nordic history contributes to a duty-based culture with strong cohesion and social trust. These cultural norms...

... of this paper is to explore the topic from a social trust angle and to compare its findings with the real extent and distribution of the different sub-populations’ participation in undeclared work. Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on the 2007 Eurobarometer data set, drawing upon...