Journal of Social Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Social Policy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Understanding informal care burden domains’ impact on overall burden – a structural equation modeling approach with cross-sectional data from Germany53
Logistics of care: Trust-reform and self-managing teams in municipal home care services50
The Dynamics of Social Assistance in the Informal Economy: Empirical Evidence from Urban China37
What They Talk About When They Talk About Homelessness: Discourse and Knowledge Culture as a Barrier to Integrated Policy Initiatives33
How Does the Content of Deservingness Criteria Differ for More and Less Deserving Target Groups? An Analysis of Polish Online Debates on Refugees and Families with Children31
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Stewart Lansley (2021), The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History, Bristol: Policy Press, £19.99, pp. 318, pbk.22
Amandine Crespy (2022), The European Social Question: Tackling Key Controversies, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £24.99, pp. 256, pbk.22
The contested jurisdiction of Social Policy in UK universities since 197219
Digitally Networked Social Services: Mapping the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) online network in Queensland, Australia19
‘It’s Like the Sword of Damocles’ – A Trauma-Informed Framework Analysis of Individuals’ Experiences of Assessment for the Personal Independence Payment Benefit in the UK16
Cross-jurisdictional youth employment policy and welfare in Scotland, Wales and England: a street-level perspective16
How Does the Provision of Childcare Services Affect Mothers’ Employment Intentions? Empirical Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment16
Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and Opportunities for Inclusive Social Policy15
Cities as social investment frontrunners: the case of Amsterdam as innovator and welfare stopgap14
Organisational outputs of administrative reforms: disability in Danish job centres14
Ship of Theseus: from ILO Standards to Outcome of Maternity Protection Policy14
Opening the black box of the municipal government: exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands – CORRIGENDUM13
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison13
Opening the black box of the municipal government: exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands13
The impact of health impairments on employment entry and the quality of employment among basic income support recipients in Germany12
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany12
Not that basic: how level, design, and context matter for the redistributive outcomes of universal basic income11
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Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies11
Addressing social risks of older people with care needs: how European welfare states combine pension and long-term care policies11
Adapting to an older workforce: health and the (non) response of employers in an era of insecurity11
Competition and childcare quality: Evidence from Quebec11
Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner (eds) (2020), Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, Bristol: Policy Press, £26.99, pp. 256, pbk.11
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The Persistence in Gendering: Work-Family Policy in Britain since Beveridge10
Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales10
Bent Greve (2022), Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £63.00, pp. 160, hbk.*10
First thing to go? Key findings from a foundational study of hygiene poverty in Ireland10
Social Policy and Queer Lives: Coming Out of the Closet?10
How Incarcerating Children Affects their Labour Market Outcomes9
Financialisation and private equity in early childhood care and education in England9
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons9
Recognising and addressing wealth privilege in policymaking through an analysis of epistemic practice and agency9
Does the family care best? Ideals of care in a familialistic care regime9
Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens’ Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway9
Incoherent and Indefensible? A Normative Analysis of Young People’s Position in England’s Welfare and Homelessness Systems8
To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them8
Does the Family Care Best? Ideals of Care in a Familialistic Care Regime – ERRATUM8
Between ideology and self-interest: exploring variations in public support for basic income schemes in Germany8
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How and why does relational welfare work to support young people not in employment, education or training (NEET)? A realist evaluation7
Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany?7
Lisa Dellmuth (2021), Is Europe Good For You? EU Spending and Well-Being, Bristol University Press, £47.99, pp. 202, hbk.7
Income Insecurity and the Relational Coping Strategies of Low-Income Households in the UK7
John Stewart (2020), Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 600, hbk.7
Did increasing the UK’s Universal Credit and working tax credits by £20 per week in 2020–2021 reduce food insecurity?7
State inspection in contexts of cultural and sociopolitical conflict: The case of social services offered to Arab-Palestinian young women in Israel7
Financializing Healthcare and Infrastructures of Social Reproduction: How to Bankrupt a Hospital and be Unprepared for a Pandemic7
Socio-Economic Gaps in Workers’ Participation in Private Pension Programmes in Ten European Countries7
Booming opportunities and looming challenges? Expansion strategies among finance-controlled providers in the field of Swedish eldercare6
Investigating social protection amongst platform workers in Germany: forced individualisation, hybrid income generation and undesired regulation6
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK: Learning from the Pandemic. Edited by Irene Hardill , Jurgen Grotz and Laura Crawford . Policy Press, 2022, 202pp, Paperback, £14.99/EPUB Open Access. ISBN 29786
Welfare Attitudes in Crisis: The Role of Ideology in Healthcare Satisfaction in Portugal and Ireland6
Managing moral distress: social policy cuts and the suppression of employee conscience6
Derek Fraser (2023), The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State, London & New York: Routledge, £120, pp. 240, hbk.6
When trade-offs touch self-interests: attitudes on education spending in a cross-country analysis6
Individual and Contextual Sources of (Mis)Perceptions About the Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State6
Missing Incomes in the UK: Evidence and Policy Implications6
‘It’s Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard’: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service5
Will Bartlett , Vassilis Monastiriotis and Panagiotis Koutrumpis (eds) (2020), Social Exclusion and Labour Market Challenges in the Western Balkans, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, £64.99, pp. 309, h5
The unexpected impact of geographic access on take-up of social benefits5
Jonathan Wistow (2022), Social Policy, Political Economy and the Social Contract, Bristol: Policy Press, £24.99, pp. 190, pbk.5
The Effect of Social Benefit Reform on Educational Inequality5
The Participation of People in Vulnerable Situations in Interest Organisations: A Qualitative Study of Representatives Views5
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A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa5
Philanthropic Foundations and Institutional Change under Rigid Authoritarianism: Exploring the Ford Foundation’s Historical Grantmaking in the Chinese Family Planning Field (1991–2005)5
Making the most of language acquisition of Syrian asylum permit holders in the Netherlands: the role of policy factors examined5
Paul Spicker (2022), How to Fix the Welfare State: Some Ideas for Better Social Services, Bristol: Policy Press, £27.99, pp. 168, pbk.5
Improving Take-Up by Reaching Out to Potential Beneficiaries. Insights from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Belgium5
Anja Eleveld , Thomas Kampen and Josien Arts (eds) (2020) Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare States: Legal, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Justice and Domination, Brist5
Take-up and distribution of a universal cash benefit: The case of the Austrian long-term care allowance5
Did the COVID-19 pandemic fuel public support for social protection?4
Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Co-Production Processes in the Disability Sector: Individual and Collection Action Views4
When do municipalities smooth access for new social assistance claimants? Local determinants of municipal welfare agency’s implementation practices in Belgium4
Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work4
Co-producing care: roles and strategies of informal carers4
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Universal Credit: administrative burdens of automated welfare4
Welfare Sanctions and Deprivation in Germany: Do First Sanctions Lead to Higher Levels of Deprivation Among the Long-Term Unemployed and Recipients of Basic Income Support?4
Discrimination in marketized welfare services: a field experiment on Swedish schools4
Conditionality and contentment: Universal Credit and UK welfare benefit recipients’ life satisfaction4
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Are Social Impact Bonds an Innovation in Finance or Do They Help Finance Social Innovation?4
Attitudes toward government, rich and poor, and support for redistribution4
Which Active Labor Market Policies Work for Male Refugees? Evidence from Germany – CORRIGENDUM4
Reframing long-term care policy: from services to social determinants4
How has the idea of prevention been conceptualised and progressed in adult social care in England?4
Global Patterns of Contemporary Welfare States – ERRATUM3
Fostering societal participation of marginalised people in street-outreach services in the Netherlands3
Varieties of engagement: exploring the micro-practices of managers in employing disadvantaged jobseekers3
Paternalism in Australian parliamentary debate: the case of drug testing social security recipients3
The Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Research Evidence3
Stijn Oosterlynck , Andreas Novy and Yuri Kazepov (eds) (2019) Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty and Exclusion: A Critical Appraisal, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 276, hbk.3
Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: foundations of the US ecosocial safety net3
New shades of conflict? Theorising the multi-dimensional politics of eco-social policies3
Inequality of Opportunity in Health Among Urban, Rural, and Migrant Children: Evidence from China3
Who deserves economic relief? Examining Twitter/X debates about Covid-19 economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed in Germany3
Social and environmental protection: the effects of social insurance generosity on the acceptance of material sacrifices for the sake of environmental protection3
The two-child policy was not associated with an increase in abortions among its target population3
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‘Navigating’ the Value of Lived Experience in Support Work with Multiply Disadvantaged Adults3
Housing affordability and poverty in Europe: on the deteriorating position of market renters3
A Social Policy Case for a Four-Day Week3
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Rethinking street-level bureaucracy: everyday bordering and networks of enactment and resistance in mixed welfare economies2
Delivering ‘50 PLUS Choices’ in the UK: how compatible are ‘fuller working lives’ with an increasing reliance on informal carers to deliver social care?2
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Between left and right: A discourse network analysis of Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter2
The Rise and Fall of Social Housing? Housing Decommodification in Long-run Comparison2
Charities’ income during the COVID-19 pandemic: administrative evidence for England and Wales2
Towards policies of dignity? The German Participation Opportunities Act as a response to long-term unemployment2
Which training leads to employment? The effectiveness of varying types of training programmes for unemployed jobseekers in Flanders2
Paternity leave-taking and US Fathers’ participation in housework2
Sheila Shaver (ed) (2020) Handbook on Gender and Social Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £42.00, pp. 480, pbk.2
Why Do People Support or Oppose Maximum Income? Ideological Dispersion around Four Positions and Shared Concerns about Implementation2
Welfare Expansion without Inequality Reduction: Institutional Explanation of Old-Age Poverty in Korea2
Do crisis narratives encourage redistribution? Australian housing policy debates during COVID-192
Territory and solidarity: evidence from Taiwan’s pension policy reform2
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Embedded and exterior practices of cross-sector co-production: the impact of fields – CORRIGENDUM2
Unconditional cash transfers and compliance with public health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States2
Hope in a paranoid place? Critique, utopianism and prefigurative policy reform2
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Who excludes? Young People’s Experience of Social Exclusion2
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Weakly institutionalized, heavily contested: Does support for contemporary welfare reforms rely on norms of distributive justice?2
Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state: The passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in the United States2
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Policy feedback and income targeting in the welfare state1
Goodbye human annotators? Content analysis of social policy debates using ChatGPT1
Performance and trust in child protection systems: a comparative analysis of England and Norway1
The politics of minimum income reform in Spain: explaining unexpected and consensual path departure1
Peter Taylor-Gooby (2022), A Kinder City: A Market World Novel, Market Harborough: Troubador Publishing, £9.99, pp. 320 pbk, £2.99 ebook.1
The dynamic effects of becoming disabled on work, wages and wellbeing in the UK from 1991 to 20181
A crisis-induced bricolage policy in Australia: ethical contradictions in policymaking in times of crisis1
Dennie Oude Nijhuis (ed) (2021), Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, £36.99, pp. 376, pbk.1
The Schumpeterian Consensus: The New Logic of Global Social Policy to Face Digital Transformation1
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Outcome-based contracting and gaming practices in marketised public employment services. Dilemmas from the Italian case1
Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State1
Horses for Courses: Subject Differences in the Chances of Securing Different Types of Graduate Jobs in the UK1
Why Do Poor People Not Take up Benefits? Evidence from the Barcelona’s B-MINCOME Experiment1
A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK1
Re-examining ‘personalised conditionality’: full-time obligations, partial adjustments and power asymmetries in the UK’s approach to work-related conditionality1
Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger and Marta Lorimer (2022), Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 200, pbk.1
Monitoring a Fragile Child Protection System: a Longitudinal Local Area Ecological Analysis of the Inequalities Impact of Children’s Services Inspections on Statutory Child Welfare Interventions in En1
Polarisation and inequality: ‘peace’ in Northern Ireland1
Female mayors do not lead to greater childcare provision – Evidence from Polish municipalities1
Social bridging finance: a new Scottish model for financing public service design and delivery?1
Debt and Mental Well-being Among Older Adults: Does Employment Status Matter? – Combining Population Inference and Target Trial Frameworks1
Social protection in Latin America: a critical review1
Institutions and the politics of agency in COVID-19 response: Federalism, executive power, and public health policy in Brazil, India, and the U.S.1
The multidimensionality of childcare policy change: novel policy approaches, competing policies and feedback tensions1
Parental Leave Take-up and its Intensity. Do Partners’ Workplace Characteristics Matter?1
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Employer-provided childcare across the 50 United States: the normative importance of public childcare and female leadership1
The Journal of Social Policy Turns 50 – Time for Reflections and Looking to the Future1
Elisabeth Anderson (2021), Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State, Princeton: Princeton University Press, £25.00, pp. 384, pbk.1
Suspicious Minds? Media effects on the perception of disability benefit claimants1
Beyond individual responsibility – towards a relational understanding of financial resilience through participatory research and design1
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A Framework for Evaluating the Adequacy of Disability Benefit Programs and its Application to the U.S. Social Security Disability Programs1
Deserving Hukou: An Exploration of How Chinese People Evaluate Migrants’ Welfare Deservingness1
Public Acceptance of Regional Redistribution in Germany: A Survey Experiment on the Perceived Deservingness of Regions1
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