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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Understanding informal care burden domains’ impact on overall burden – a structural equation modeling approach with cross-sectional data from Germany39
Covid19, Charitable Giving and Collectivism: a data-harvesting approach32
Global Patterns of Contemporary Welfare States – ERRATUM28
New shades of conflict? Theorising the multi-dimensional politics of eco-social policies28
JSP volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Back matter27
The Journal of Social Policy Turns 50 – Time for Reflections and Looking to the Future25
Dennie Oude Nijhuis (ed) (2021), Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, £36.99, pp. 376, pbk.21
Lisa Dellmuth (2021), Is Europe Good For You? EU Spending and Well-Being, Bristol University Press, £47.99, pp. 202, hbk.19
Back to the future? What we can learn from the 2nd generation of Social Policy academics18
Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger and Marta Lorimer (2022), Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 200, pbk.18
The Dynamics of Social Assistance in the Informal Economy: Empirical Evidence from Urban China14
Meen Geoffrey and Whitehead Christine (2020), Understanding Affordability: The Economics of Housing Markets, Bristol: Policy Press, £26.99, pp. 336, pbk.14
Are Factors Associated with Adult Refugees’ Settlement different from Well-Being? A Longitudinal Study focusing on Gender and Age in Australia13
Which Active Labor Market Policies Work for Male Refugees? Evidence from Germany13
Investigating social protection amongst platform workers in Germany: forced individualisation, hybrid income generation and undesired regulation12
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Back matter12
Elisabeth Anderson (2021), Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State, Princeton: Princeton University Press, £25.00, pp. 384, pbk.11
John Stewart (2020), Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 600, hbk.11
Peter Taylor-Gooby (2022), A Kinder City: A Market World Novel, Market Harborough: Troubador Publishing, £9.99, pp. 320 pbk, £2.99 ebook.10
Fostering societal participation of marginalised people in street-outreach services in the Netherlands10
‘Navigating’ the Value of Lived Experience in Support Work with Multiply Disadvantaged Adults10
The Taxation of Families: How Gendered (De)Familialization Tax Policies Modify Horizontal Income Inequality9
A Fast Track to Social Rights? Passported Benefits and Administrative Burden9
Individual and Contextual Sources of (Mis)Perceptions About the Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State9
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 Children9
A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK8
To what extent does early childhood education policy in Australia recognise and propose action on the social determinants of health and health equity?8
Changes in Working Women’s Self-Reported Subjective Wellbeing and Quality of Interpersonal Relationships During COVID-19: A Quantitative Comparison of Essential and Non-essential Workers in Singapore8
Class Conflict or Consensus? Understanding Social Partner Positions on Social Policy Reforms8
Bent Greve (2022), Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £63.00, pp. 160, hbk. – CORRIGENDUM8
What They Talk About When They Talk About Homelessness: Discourse and Knowledge Culture as a Barrier to Integrated Policy Initiatives7
Logistics of care: Trust-reform and self-managing teams in municipal home care services7
Goodbye human annotators? Content analysis of social policy debates using ChatGPT7
First step and last resort: One-Euro-Jobs after the reform6
Mary Daly (2020), Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £25.00, pp. 232, pbk.6
Accountability in personalised Supported Employment-based activation services6
Amandine Crespy (2022), The European Social Question: Tackling Key Controversies, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £24.99, pp. 256, pbk.6
In Defence of Ordinary Help: Estimating the effect of Early Help/Family Support Spending on Children in Need Rates in England using ALT-SR6
Editorial board update6
Who should pay for social care for older people in England? Results from surveys of public attitudes to the funding of adult social care6
JSP volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Back matter6
Welfare Attitudes in Crisis: The Role of Ideology in Healthcare Satisfaction in Portugal and Ireland6
The Schumpeterian Consensus: The New Logic of Global Social Policy to Face Digital Transformation6
JSP volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Front matter5
Horses for Courses: Subject Differences in the Chances of Securing Different Types of Graduate Jobs in the UK5
Lost in Categorisation? Employment Subsidies – Bringing the Beneficiaries Back In5
JSP volume 52 issue 2 Cover and Back matter5
Saraceno Chiara, Benassi David and Morlicchio Enrica (2020), Poverty in Italy: Features and Drivers in a European Perspective, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 206, hbk.5
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons – CORRIGENDUM5
JSP volume 53 issue 1 Cover and Back matter5
JSP volume 52 issue 2 Cover and Front matter5
Inequality of Opportunity in Health Among Urban, Rural, and Migrant Children: Evidence from China5
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter5
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.5
JSP volume 53 issue 1 Cover and Front matter5
Derek Fraser (2023), The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State, London & New York: Routledge, £120, pp. 240, hbk.5
Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: foundations of the US ecosocial safety net4
“Oldies come bottom of Grim Reaper hierarchy” : A framing analysis of UK newspaper coverage of old age and risk of dying during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic4
‘It’s Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard’: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service4
The contested jurisdiction of Social Policy in UK universities since 19724
Family as a Redistributive Principle of the Welfare State. The Case of Germany4
Performance and trust in child protection systems: a comparative analysis of England and Norway4
Employer-provided childcare across the 50 United States: the normative importance of public childcare and female leadership4
Comparing Government Social Welfare Service Acquisition Regimes: Marketisation and Bases for Competition in Canadian and English Homelessness4
How Does the Provision of Childcare Services Affect Mothers’ Employment Intentions? Empirical Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment4
A safety net for all? – Vignette-based assessments of Swedish social assistance over three decades4
Moving Social Policy from Mental Illness to Public Wellbeing4
Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy4
Digitally Networked Social Services: Mapping the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) online network in Queensland, Australia4
Why Do Poor People Not Take up Benefits? Evidence from the Barcelona’s B-MINCOME Experiment4
Welfare Regime Variation in the Impact of the Great Recession on Deprivation Levels: A Dynamic Perspective on Polarisation vs Convergence for Social Risk Groups, 2005–20144
Missing Incomes in the UK: Evidence and Policy Implications4
Varieties of engagement: exploring the micro-practices of managers in employing disadvantaged jobseekers4
Getting By: Neoliberal Governmentality and the Lack of Success in Instilling Financial Self-Reliance4
Informal third-party actors in street-level welfare decisions: a case study of Pakistan social assistance4
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
Paul Spicker (2022), How to Fix the Welfare State: Some Ideas for Better Social Services, Bristol: Policy Press, £27.99, pp. 168, pbk.3
(In)visible Sanctions: Micro-level Evidence on Compulsory Activation for Young Welfare Recipients3
Kuhnle Stein, Selle Per and Sven E. O. Hort (2019), Globalizing Welfare: An Evolving Asian-European Dialogue, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £105.00, pp. 368, hbk.3
Yasmine Ergas , Jane Jenson and Sonya Michel (eds) (2019), Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World, New York: Columbia University Press, £22.00, pp. 336, pbk.3
Katharina Zimmermann (2019), Local Policies and the European Social Fund: Employment Policies Across Europe, £75.00, pp. 224, hbk.3
Criminalising survivors of modern slavery: the United Kingdom’s National Referral Mechanism as a border-making process3
JSP volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Back matter3
The Participation of People in Vulnerable Situations in Interest Organisations: A Qualitative Study of Representatives Views3
Tobias Schulze-Cleven and Sidney A. Rothstein (eds) (2021) Imbalance: Germany’s Political Economy after the Social Democratic Century, New York: Routledge, £120.00, pp. 274, hbk.3
Improving Take-Up by Reaching Out to Potential Beneficiaries. Insights from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Belgium3
The role of social enterprises in facilitating labour market integration for people with disabilities: A convenient deflection from policy mainstreaming?3
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, h3
Systems thinking for better social policy: a case study in financial wellbeing3
JSP volume 53 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Amanda Grenier , Chris Phillipson and Richard Settersten (eds) (2020), Precarity and Ageing: Understanding Insecurity and Risk in Later Life, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 272, hbk.3
Policy feedback and income targeting in the welfare state3
Preferences, vote choice, and the politics of social investment: Addressing the puzzle of unequal benefits of childcare provision3
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Government profiles as perceived by governments’ NPO partners in Chinese social service delivery3
The impact of health impairments on employment entry and the quality of employment among basic income support recipients in Germany3
Who deserves economic relief? Examining Twitter/X debates about Covid-19 economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed in Germany3
The Effect of Social Benefit Reform on Educational Inequality3
Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis and Mara Yerkes (eds) (2022), Social Policy in Changing European Societies: Research Agendas for the 21st Century, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £99.00, pp. 328, hbk, Ope3
‘Unprecedented injustice’: Digitalisation and the perceived accessibility of childcare benefits2
A Social Policy Case for a Four-Day Week2
Socio-Economic Performance of European Welfare States in Technology-Induced Employment Scenarios2
Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen (2020), Finntopia: What We Can Learn From the World’s Happiest Country, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £18.99, pp. 320, hbk.2
A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa2
Adapting to an older workforce: health and the (non) response of employers in an era of insecurity2
The Leadership of Co-Production in Health and Social Care Integration in Scotland: A Qualitative Study2
Working Less, Not More in a Workfare Programme: Group Solidarity, Informal Norms and Alternative Value Systems Amongst Activated Participants2
Who Stays Poor and Who Doesn’t? An Analysis Based on Joint Assessment of Income and Assets2
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison2
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
How Welfare Professions Contribute to the Making of Welfare Governance: Professional Agency and Institutional Work in Elder Care2
Making the most of language acquisition of Syrian asylum permit holders in the Netherlands: the role of policy factors examined2
Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies2
When education is positional: higher education expansion, welfare regimes and income inequality2
Ship of Theseus: from ILO Standards to Outcome of Maternity Protection Policy2
Organisational outputs of administrative reforms: disability in Danish job centres2
What are the Barriers to Taxing Wealth? The Case of a Wealth Tax Proposal in the UK2
Social Investment, Redistribution or Basic Income? Exploring the Association Between Automation Risk and Welfare State Attitudes in Europe2
Poverty and Sources of Income Support Among Older People With Disabilities and Out of Work: Comparison of Canada and the United Kingdom2
Housing affordability and poverty in Europe: on the deteriorating position of market renters2
Scandinavian Approaches to Begging as a Policy Problem and the Double Insider/Outsider Status of Marginalized Intra-EU Migrants2
Advancing a healthy housing policy agenda: how do policy makers problematise housing-related health issues?2
The Role of the Deservingness Criteria in the case of Single Mothers’ Perceived Welfare Deservingness in Hungary2
The Personalisation of Social Care: How Can a Healthcare System Be Adapted to the Specific Characteristics of People with Multiple Impairments? The case of the care of people with “rare disabilities” 1
Overcoming hybridisation in global welfare regime classifications: lessons from a single case study1
Christopher Ellis and Christopher Faricy (2021) The Other Side of the Coin: Public Opinion Toward Social Tax Expenditures, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, $29.95, pp. 170, pbk.1
Income Loss and Leave Taking: Increased Financial Benefits and Fathers’ Parental Leave Use in Sweden1
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Parental Leave Take-up and its Intensity. Do Partners’ Workplace Characteristics Matter?1
Paul Spicker (2019), Thinking Collectively Social Policy, Collective Action and the Common Good, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 188, hbk.1
Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State1
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Social and environmental protection: the effects of social insurance generosity on the acceptance of material sacrifices for the sake of environmental protection1
The Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Research Evidence1
Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and Opportunities for Inclusive Social Policy1
Delivering ‘50 PLUS Choices’ in the UK: how compatible are ‘fuller working lives’ with an increasing reliance on informal carers to deliver social care? – CORRIGENDUM1
JSP volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
Delivering ‘50 PLUS Choices’ in the UK: how compatible are ‘fuller working lives’ with an increasing reliance on informal carers to deliver social care?1
Emily Kenway (2021), The Truth About Modern Slavery, London: Pluto Press, £75.00, pp. 227, pbk.1
Social Policy and Queer Lives: Coming Out of the Closet?1
What characteristics of funding, provision and regulation are associated with effective social investment in ECEC in England, France and Germany? – CORRIGENDUM1
Necessities Laid Bare: An Examination of Possible Justifications for Peter Townsend’s Purely Relative Definition of Poverty1
Sheila Shaver (ed) (2020) Handbook on Gender and Social Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £42.00, pp. 480, pbk.1
Parental homeownership and education: the implications for offspring wealth inequality in Great Britain1
Crisis-proof households? How social policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic imagined work and care in Germany1
Not that basic: how level, design, and context matter for the redistributive outcomes of universal basic income1
Global Patterns of Contemporary Welfare States1
Paternalism in Australian parliamentary debate: the case of drug testing social security recipients1
‘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 UK1
Do crisis narratives encourage redistribution? Australian housing policy debates during COVID-191
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, Brist1
JSP volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Re-examining ‘personalised conditionality’: full-time obligations, partial adjustments and power asymmetries in the UK’s approach to work-related conditionality1
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Expanding Welfare State Borders: Trade Unions and the Introduction of Pro-Outsiders Social Policies in Italy and Argentina1
Take-up and distribution of a universal cash benefit: The case of the Austrian long-term care allowance1
Public Pension Generosity and Old-Age Poverty in OECD countries1
European Youth Work Policy and Young People’s Experience of Open Access Youth Work – CORRIGENDUM1
Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work1
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.1
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Why is Lived Experience Absent from Social Security Policymaking? – CORRIGENDUM1
Employer Engagement with Third-Sector Activation Programmes for Vulnerable Groups: Interrogating Logics and Roles1
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany1
JSP volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
What Curbs Social Investment? The Effect of Foreign Electoral Outcomes on Childcare Expenditure Levels1
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