In Value Contrasts and Consensus in Present-Day Europe, Wil Arts and Loek Halman have collected a considerable number of contributions that paint the moral landscape of Europe by empirically-theoretically analyzing value patterns.

Wil Arts, Ph.D. (1984) Utrecht University, is Professor Emeritus of General and Theoretical Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on cross-national research as to values and welfare state regimes.
Loek Halman, Ph.D. (1991), Tilburg University, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His publications focus on values and attitudes in contemporary society and the dynamics of value change.
Contributors include: Wil Arts, Edurne Bartolomé Peral, Marcel Coenders, Andreea Constantin, Ellen Dingemans, Stefanie Doebler, Hermann Dülmer, Maurice Gesthuizen, John Gelissen, Jonas Grauel, Peter Gundelach, Loek Halman, Jana Heine, Marjolein Jeene, Christian Lahusen, Marcel Lubbers, Matthew Wright, Christiaan Monden, Nienke Moor, Ruud Muffels, Tim Reeskens, Eline A. de Rooij, Wim van Oorschot, Alice Ramos, Peer Scheepers, Inge Sieben, Ellen Verbakel, David Voas, and Malina Voicu.