Mathea Loen, Marit Skivenes (2025)
The Journal of European Social Policy
NEW ARTICLE: PhD Fellow Mathea Loen and Professor Marit Skivenes have published a study on child protection, examining how individuals’ values around responsibility, certainty, and child rights influence their support for state intervention in potential child protection cases. The study, published in the Journal of European Social Policy, analyzes data from over 6000 people across Norway, Finland, England, Poland, Romania, and Czechia.
The research addresses a key question: when is it appropriate for the state to intervene in the private lives of families to protect children? Using representative samples from these six countries, the study tests two main factors: whether individuals’ core values explain their willingness to support state interventions, and how institutional contexts shape the differences between countries.
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