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How Europeans Combine Support for Social Rights and Work Obligations of the Unemployed: Effects of Individual Predictors and Institutional Design
A long tradition of welfare attitudes research acknowledges that a substantial share of European citizens are supportive of organising social protection against unemployment, but less attention is given to how...
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Open AccessA randomized controlled trial of cognitive control training (CCT) as an add-on treatment for late-life depression: a study protocol
Already a major health concern, late-life depression (LLD) is expected to form an increasing problem in the aging population. Moreover, despite current treatments, LLD is associated with a poor long-term progn...
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Lost connection? The attitudinal and ideological (in)congruence of social democracy’s elites, members and voters in Flanders-Belgium
In this article we investigate the electoral decline of the Flemish social democratic party sp.a by analysing the intraparty (in)congruence in opinion structure using a unique pooled dataset that contains part...
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Differentiated Distributive Justice Preferences? Configurations of Preferences for Equality, Equity and Need in Three Welfare Domains
Empirical public opinion research on distributive justice often does not acknowledge that individuals’ social justice preferences may strongly depend on the particular type of distribution at stake and therefo...
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Social Europe: A New Integration-Demarcation Conflict?
The European Union has gradually assumed increasing authority in the domain of social policy. This increasing importance of Social Europe fundamentally redraws the boundaries of existing solidarity arrangement...
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Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling for Cross-National Comparative Research
This contribution focuses on a model that is gaining currency in cross-national research, namely multilevel structural equation modelling (MSEM). Similarly to standard multilevel modelling (MLM), this model di...
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Examining Measurement Isomorphism of Multilevel Constructs: The Case of Political Trust
There is a growing recognition of the importance of testing for measurement equivalence when comparing latent constructs—such as political trust—across countries and over time. Indeed, equivalence of measureme...
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Measuring Attitudes Towards Social Europe: A Multidimensional Approach
Although the notion of ‘Social Europe’ can refer to different principles and policy options, most research narrows down attitudes towards Social Europe to a unidimensional construct. In this study, we instead ...
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Erratum zu: Individual values, cultural embeddedness, and anti-immigration sentiments: explaining differences in the effect of values on attitudes toward immigration across Europe
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Trust in American Government: Longitudinal Measurement Equivalence in the ANES, 1964–2008
For over 50 years (1958–2012) the American National Election Studies (ANES) survey has been measuring citizens’ evaluations of the trustworthiness of the “government in Washington”—an indicator that has been w...
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Do Attitudes Towards the Integration of Immigrants Change Over Time? A Comparative Study of Natives, Second-Generation Immigrants and Foreign-Born Residents in Luxembourg
The aim of this paper is to investigate attitudes toward the integration of immigrants in Luxembourg—the country with the highest proportion of immigrants in Europe. First, the paper examines how attitudes tow...
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Support for Government Intervention in Child Care across European Countries
There has been a remarkable increase in female labour market participation all across Europe. This has brought on the end of the male breadwinner regime (Lewis, 1992) — where women were mostly at home to take ...
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Depressive symptoms in the Belgian population: disentangling age and cohort effects
Although the association between age and depression has been previously demonstrated, uncertainty remains because of the confounding relationship existing between age and cohort. A study by Yang (J Health Soc ...
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When are item intercept differences substantively relevant in measurement invariance testing?
Invariance of measurement instruments is a necessary condition for making valid comparisons across cultural groups. Applied researchers are becoming increasingly aware of the issue of measurement invariance, a...
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Electoral Systems and Strategic Learning in Spain and Portugal? The Use of Multilevel Models
This paper examines the interaction effect between time (successive elections) and district magnitude on three dependent variables: disproportionality, the number of participating parties indicating strategic ...
