scholarly journals Introduction: A Multilevel Perspective on Family Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Rense Nieuwenhuis ◽  
Wim Van Lancker
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
National Organizations ◽  
Multilevel Perspective ◽  
Policy Impacts ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Four Levels

AbstractThis chapter introduces a multilevel perspective on family policy, ranging from family policies at the levels of supra-national (and inter-national) organizations such as the United Nations, OECD, and the European Union; national or federal policies and legislation; the subnational municipalities, states, or regions in which people live; and finally the organizations or in which people work. At each of these levels of governance, family policies are formulated, voted for, implemented, and carried out—or not. And it is this whole set of multi-level policies that ultimately affect families’ and individuals’ choices, opportunities, constraints, and capability in terms of work, care, and wellbeing. This handbook brings together research on each of these four levels, is sensitive to heterogeneous policy impacts, and brings together scholars from different academic communities.

scholarly journals Conclusion: The Next Decade of Family Policy Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 683-706
Author(s):  
Wim Van Lancker ◽  
Rense Nieuwenhuis
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Future Outlook ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Multilevel Perspective

AbstractBased on the multilevel perspective on family policy research brought together in this handbook, this chapter highlights five major societal challenges for the future outlook and outcomes of family policies, and reflects on what the handbook teaches us about how to effectively address these challenges, as well as what there is yet to learn. The challenges pertain to the (1) levels of policy implementation, and in particular globalization and decentralization, (2) austerity and marketization, (3) economic inequality, (4) changing family relations, and (5) welfare states adapting to women’s empowered roles. The chapter concludes by examining what lessons were learned, and are yet to learn, regarding the capacity of family policies to cope with shocks of various kinds and to support families during extraordinary times.

scholarly journals Family Policy and Child Well-Being: The Case of Montenegro in the European Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 9118
Author(s):  
Branko Bošković ◽  
Harriet Churchill ◽  
Oriola Hamzallari
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Family Resources ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Wide Family

Family policies and family support measures have been identified as having major implications for child well-being, particularly through their role in influencing parental and family resources, circumstances and behaviour. The official approach to family policies focuses on opportunities for families to balance their work and family duties and care for their children. This paper analyses the type of policies available in Montenegro compared to the European Union. Potentially, Montenegro will become an EU member state, thus it is important to take a look at Montenegrin practice, as children should have equal life chances and protection of their well-being. Having a solid legal framework per se does not necessarily result in significant positive outcomes, and this paper analyses whether children in Montenegro have the same opportunities for development, in the context of family policies, as their counterparts in the rest of Europe. The focus of the paper will be on the criteria that define family rights and obligations, eligibility, availability and use of family policies in Montenegro. Based on the specific measures and datasets examined, the analysis considers the degree to which a period of family policy investment in Montenegro has been accompanied by improvements in child well-being and family resources, and undertakes comparisons in these regards with EU-wide family policy and child well-being trends. The paper uses a welfare state theoretical approach, with the focus on social investment and relevant data on children’s well-being obtained from the Eurostat, the OECD and the official national statistics.

Modernising Family Policies in the European Union

INTAMS review ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-243
Author(s):  
Peirpoalo DONATI
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Family Policies

scholarly journals A Multi-level Review of Engineering Ethics Education: Towards a Socio-technical Orientation of Engineering Education for Ethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Adela Martin ◽  
Eddie Conlon ◽  
Brian Bowe
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Engineering Ethics ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Engineering Ethics Education ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThis paper aims to review the empirical and theoretical research on engineering ethics education, by focusing on the challenges reported in the literature. The analysis is conducted at four levels of the engineering education system. First, the individual level is dedicated to findings about teaching practices reported by instructors. Second, the institutional level brings together findings about the implementation and presence of ethics within engineering programmes. Third, the level of policy situates findings about engineering ethics education in the context of accreditation. Finally, there is the level of the culture of engineering education. The multi-level analysis allows us to address some of the limitations of higher education research which tends to focus on individual actors such as instructors or remains focused on the levels of policy and practice without examining the deeper levels of paradigm and purpose guiding them. Our approach links some of the challenges of engineering ethics education with wider debates about its guiding paradigms. The main contribution of the paper is to situate the analysis of the theoretical and empirical findings reported in the literature on engineering ethics education in the context of broader discussions about the purpose of engineering education and the aims of reform programmes. We conclude by putting forward a series of recommendations for a socio-technical oriented reform of engineering education for ethics.

Term extraction and management based on event templates

Terminology ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia Peruzzo
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Classification Criteria ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Term Extraction ◽  
Automatic Term Extraction ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Victims Of Crime

The paper examines the possible usage of event templates derived from Frame-Based Terminology (Faber et al. 2005, 2006, 2007) as an aid to the extraction and management of legal terminology embedded in the multi-level legal system of the European Union. The method proposed here, which combines semi-automatic term extraction and a simplified event template containing six categories, is applied to an English corpus of EU texts focusing on victims of crime and their rights. Such a combination allows for the extraction of category-relevant terminological units and additional information, which can then be used for populating a terminological knowledge base organised on the basis of the same event template, but which also employs additional classification criteria to account for the multidimensionality encountered in the corpus.

Europeanisation and Catalonia’s in(ter)dependence

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIS MORENO
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Stateless Nations ◽  
Future Intent

Abstract:The European Union has transcended many of the old prerogatives of national independence bringing about the very function of interdependence among Member States. Within the latter there are sub-state communities claiming simultaneously both self-government and ‘more Europe’. The future intent of this political process in the Old Continent is to make territorial subsidiarity consistent with home rule within European framework legislation and continental institutions. The first part of this article focuses on the idea of a closer European Union based upon the implementation of territorial subsidiarity, as well as on the challenges posed by democratic accountability, multi-level governance and the preservation of the European Social Model (ESM). The second section illustrates some of these challenges in practice through an analysis of how the meaning of independence has developed in a ‘stateless nation’ such as Catalonia. In Spain, the lack of territorial accommodation, together with a long-standing centre–periphery controversy, has fuelled claims for secession by some Catalan nationalists. The conclusions ponder on how ‘cosmopolitan localism’ can optimise both independence and interdependence of stateless nations like Catalonia in the global context.

scholarly journals Understanding the Paradoxes of Multilevel Governing: Climate Change Policy in the European Union

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Jordan ◽  
Harro van Asselt ◽  
Frans Berkhout ◽  
Dave Huitema ◽  
Tim Rayner
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
European Union ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
Paradoxical Situation ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
The Eu

The European Union (EU) has sought to lead the world in the adoption of ambitious climate change mitigation targets and policies. In an attempt to characterize and broadly explain the resulting pattern of EU climate governance, scholars have employed the term “multi-level reinforcement.” This term does help to account for the paradoxical situation whereby the EU seeks to lead by example but is itself a relatively leaderless system of governance. Drawing on a much fuller empirical account of the evolution of EU climate governance, this article finds that the term captures some but not all aspects of the EU's approach. It identifies four other paradoxical features of the EU's approach and assesses the extent to which they exhibit “multi-level reinforcement.” It concludes by looking forward and examining the extent to which all five features are expected to enable and/or constrain the EU's ability to maintain a leading position in climate governance.

JUDICIAL AND NON-JUDICIAL PROTECTION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MULTI-LEVEL ADMINISTRATIVE SPACE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-80
Author(s):  
A.V. Chetvernina
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
German Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Eu Legislation ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Judicial Protection ◽  
Regulatory Models ◽  
The Eu

The review is based on the publications of a series of articles in a special issue of the German Law Journal (German law journal. 2021. Vol. 22, N 3). It examines the complex of judicial and non-judicial problems that arise in the complex multi-level administrative structure of the EU. The main focus is on mechanisms of horizontal and vertical administrative cooperation, as well as new regulatory models that «generate» transnational administrative acts and mutual recognition systems, as well as multi-level inspection activities carried out to ensure compliance with EU legislation.

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