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Value contrasts and consensus in present-day Europe : painting Europe's moral landscapes /

In Value Contrasts and Consensus in Present-Day Europe, Wil Arts and Loek Halman have collected a considerable number of contributions that paint the moral landscape of Europe by empirically-theoretically analyzing value patterns.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Arts, Wilhelmus Antonius, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Colección:European values studies ; 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Figures, Tables and Appendices; Series Editors' Preface; Editors' Preface; Chapter One Cross-National Values in Europe Today: Facts and Explanations; Introduction; The contributions to this book; Challenges for value researchers; References; Chapter Two Who is Afraid of the (Big Bad) European Union? European Integration and Fears About Job Losses; Introduction; Theory and hypotheses; Socio-economic factors; Institutional and political factors; Community-related factors; Data and measurements; Results; Country differences in regard to fears: Comparison of means.
  • Explaining differences: Multilevel analysisConclusion and discussion; References; Chapter Three Shifting Loyalties? Globalization and National Identity in the Twenty-First Century; Introduction; The multidimensionality of national identity; Individual-level explanations; Country-level explanations; Data and methodology; Dependent variables; Individual-level independent variables; National-level independent variables; Methodology; Results; Cross-national distribution; Individual-level analysis; National-level analysis; Conclusion; Appendix; References.
  • Chapter Four Support for labour-market discrimination of migrants in EuropeIntroduction and questions; General theories on support for discrimination; From general theories to testable hypotheses; Social positions; Contextual conditions; Individual perceptions and attitudes; Data; Descriptive results; Results from multilevel analyses; Conclusions and discussion; References; Chapter Five The Relative Deservingness of the Unemployed in the Eyes of the European Public; Introduction; Theory and hypotheses; National-context characteristics; Individual characteristics.
  • Operationalization and methodsThe dependent variable; Country-level variables; Individual-level variables; Methods; Results; Conclusion and discussion; References; Chapter Six Neighbours: Determinants of Whom Europeans Want to Keep at a Distance; Introduction; Social distance: A measure of social antipathy; Individual determinants of social distance; Social values; Trust; Political attitudes and orientations; Background; Socio-structural determinants of social distance; Socio-economic performance; Immigration flows; Religious milieu; Data and methods; Dependent variables.
  • Independent variablesResults; Social distance towards racialized or ethnicized groups; Individual and contextual predictors of social distance towards stigmatized groups; Conclusions; References; Chapter Seven Freedom or Equality; Introduction; The EVS question; Two theoretical approaches; Rokeach's two-value model; Political philosophy; Analytic strategy and hypotheses; Choosing equality as the focal concept; The 'neither' and 'don't know' categories; Macro hypotheses; Micro hypotheses; Value explanations; Descriptive analysis; Multivariate analysis; Conclusion; References.