Testing Secularization Theory In Comparative Perspective

Property Testing: A Learning Theory Perspective

Property testing deals with tasks where the goal is to distinguish between the case that an object (e.g., function or graph) has a prespecified property (e.g., the function is linear or the graph is bipartite) and the case that it differs significantly from any such object. The task should be performed by observing only a very small part of the object, in particular by querying the object, and ...

Unravelling Secularization: An International Study

Unravelling Secularization: An International Study The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables) was employed to test for the determinants of this decisi...

Passives in Comparative Perspective

The Blind Spots of Secularization

According to several international surveys Spain is among the western countries with the most negative views of Jews. While quantitative data on the topic accumulates, there is a significant lack of interpretative approaches that might explain the particular Spanish case. This paper 15 presents the background, methodology and major results of a discussion group-based study on antisemitism, whic...

Economic Insecurity in Comparative Perspective

This paper examines the determinants of economic insecurity in advanced industrial societies. Based on data collected in 13 European democracies, it shows that people’s sense of economic security is affected by individual-level attributes such as human capital, recent experiences in the labor market and perceptions of the national economy, but also by cross-national differences in levels of soc...