Public Attitudes towards Family Policies in Europe Linking Institutional Context and Public Opinion /

• Main Author: Mischke, Monika (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.

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. Monika Mischke addresses this research gap by combining a profound analysis of existing family-policy measures with a thoro...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Theoretical background and literature review
• Family policies in Europe - a cluster analysis
• Family policies and public opinion
• Family policy, contextual features, and public opinion
• Social cleavages within European welfare states
• Summary and discussion.