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Independence and Its Meaning: ENIL’s Monitoring of Article 19 as a Struggle for Hermeneutical Justice
This chapter explores the efforts of disabled people’s independent living movement to negotiate the meaning of independence. It focuses on the work...
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Exploration of poverty and social exclusion of Slovak population via contrast analysis associated with logit models
The aim of the paper is to assess the impact of socio-economic and socio-demographic factors on the risk of poverty or social exclusion. The paper...
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Drivers of Inclusive Development: An Empirical Investigation
Concerns about socially uneven progress and inequality have regained public attention (including that of many populist politicians). The purpose of...
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Characterizing the roles of bots on Twitter during the COVID-19 infodemic
An infodemic is an emerging phenomenon caused by an overabundance of information online. This proliferation of information makes it difficult for the...
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Perceptions of the Size of the Foreign-Born Population: Do Changes in Multicultural Policies Shape Beliefs?
Research has linked individual estimations of the size of the foreign-born population to attitudes about immigration. However, most studies focus on...
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Low Income, Ill-being, and Gender Inequality: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Gendered Risk of Suffering Among the Poor
Scholars have long investigated the positive link between income and well-being, including its gender difference. However, little is known about (1)...
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Do Wisdom and Well-Being Always Go Hand in Hand? The Role of Dialogues with Oneself
Recently, it has been demonstrated that wisdom positively predicted well-being. The paradox is that the development of wisdom is strongly linked to...
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Gender Differences in Active Ageing: Findings from a New Individual-Level Index for European Countries
We use data from wave 6 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to construct an individual-level index of active ageing for...
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Beyond Continuous versus Categorical Dichotomy: Uncovering Latent Structure of Non-electoral Political Participation Using Zero-Inflated Models
While modeling political participation as a latent variable, researchers usually choose whether to conceptualize and model participation as a latent...
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Moms’ Time—Married or Not
Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that unpartnered mothers spend slightly less time performing...
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On measurement of distances between texts in dictionary-based content analysis
The article discusses the measurement of distances between heterogeneous texts. Some limitations of WordStat, a popular off-the-shelf software...
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The spatial clustering and heterogeneity of the burglary and concentrated disadvantage relationship in Washington, DC
This study shows that the global and local spatial patterns of burglary rates in the District of Columbia neighborhoods varied significantly between...
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Livelihood Transformations and Sustainability in India
India is predominantly a rural country. It is witnessing several transformations in all its major domains. The rural settlements and their...
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Poverty Alleviation Social Work Pattern
The poverty alleviation pattern underpinned by social work intervention serves as a new means which adapts to the present-day effort of eliminating...
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Blue Zones: Centenarian Modes of Physical Activity: A Sco** Review
The primary aim of this sco** review was to identify the predominant modes of physical activity (PA) in each Blue Zone and to explore the...
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Social Infrastructure and the Alleviation of Loneliness in Europe
In Europe, individualist societies, in which people more highly value independence, have fewer people who are lonely. Yet these societies also have...
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Disentangling the relationship between immigration and environmental emissions
Immigrants have historically been accused of being unassimilable, responsible for driving down wages, taking jobs away from native workers, and...
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Elections and Corruption: Incentives to Steal or Incentives to Invest?
By now, most political systems around the world hold regular multiparty elections of different quality and type. However, we know relatively little...
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Ethnic Diversity and Social Integration—What are the Consequences of Ethnic Residential Boundaries and Halos for Social Integration in Germany?
Does immigration erode the social integration of contemporary mass-scale societies? Continued immigration and corresponding growing ethnic, racial,...
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A Holistic Sustainable Transition Approach: Theory to Action
This chapter brings together the trends and methods and presents three case studies where challenges of urban mobility are addressed through mixed...