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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Understanding informal care burden domains’ impact on overall burden – a structural equation modeling approach with cross-sectional data from Germany57
Logistics of care: Trust-reform and self-managing teams in municipal home care services30
JSP volume 55 issue 2 Cover and Front matter21
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter20
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.18
Amandine Crespy (2022), The European Social Question: Tackling Key Controversies, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £24.99, pp. 256, pbk.18
Digitally Networked Social Services: Mapping the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) online network in Queensland, Australia17
Extending working lives and the subjective financial wellbeing of mid-later life workers15
The impact of health impairments on employment entry and the quality of employment among basic income support recipients in Germany14
Cities as social investment frontrunners: the case of Amsterdam as innovator and welfare stopgap14
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
Organisational outputs of administrative reforms: disability in Danish job centres13
‘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 UK12
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison12
Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and Opportunities for Inclusive Social Policy11
Adapting to an older workforce: health and the (non) response of employers in an era of insecurity11
Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies11
Cross-jurisdictional youth employment policy and welfare in Scotland, Wales and England: a street-level perspective11
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Front matter10
Not that basic: how level, design, and context matter for the redistributive outcomes of universal basic income10
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany10
Opening the black box of the municipal government: exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands10
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.9
Competition and childcare quality: Evidence from Quebec8
Financialisation and private equity in early childhood care and education in England8
Addressing social risks of older people with care needs: how European welfare states combine pension and long-term care policies8
Bent Greve (2022), Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £63.00, pp. 160, hbk.*8
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons7
Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales7
JSP volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter7
To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them7
How Incarcerating Children Affects their Labour Market Outcomes7
Recognising and addressing wealth privilege in policymaking through an analysis of epistemic practice and agency7
State inspection in contexts of cultural and sociopolitical conflict: The case of social services offered to Arab-Palestinian young women in Israel7
First thing to go? Key findings from a foundational study of hygiene poverty in Ireland7
Subsidising silence: how policy ideas entrench Italy’s use of employment subsidies7
Does the Family Care Best? Ideals of Care in a Familialistic Care Regime – ERRATUM7
Incoherent and Indefensible? A Normative Analysis of Young People’s Position in England’s Welfare and Homelessness Systems6
Did increasing the UK’s Universal Credit and working tax credits by £20 per week in 2020–2021 reduce food insecurity?6
How and why does relational welfare work to support young people not in employment, education or training (NEET)? A realist evaluation6
The very early antecedents of NEET: understanding the role of birthweight6
Between ideology and self-interest: exploring variations in public support for basic income schemes in Germany6
Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany?6
Welfare Attitudes in Crisis: The Role of Ideology in Healthcare Satisfaction in Portugal and Ireland5
Paul Spicker (2022), How to Fix the Welfare State: Some Ideas for Better Social Services, Bristol: Policy Press, £27.99, pp. 168, pbk.5
Socio-Economic Gaps in Workers’ Participation in Private Pension Programmes in Ten European Countries5
Managing moral distress: social policy cuts and the suppression of employee conscience5
Derek Fraser (2023), The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State, London & New York: Routledge, £120, pp. 240, hbk.5
When trade-offs touch self-interests: attitudes on education spending in a cross-country analysis5
Determinants of support for reintroducing inheritance taxes in Mexico5
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
Lisa Dellmuth (2021), Is Europe Good For You? EU Spending and Well-Being, Bristol University Press, £47.99, pp. 202, hbk.5
Individual and Contextual Sources of (Mis)Perceptions About the Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State5
Booming opportunities and looming challenges? Expansion strategies among finance-controlled providers in the field of Swedish eldercare5
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 2978-1-5
Steven Haines and David Ruebain (Eds.), Education, Disability and Social Policy (2nd Edition), Policy Press, 2025, 180 pages, ISBN: 978-1447369851, GBP 27.995
The Participation of People in Vulnerable Situations in Interest Organisations: A Qualitative Study of Representatives Views5
John Stewart (2020), Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 600, hbk.5
Investigating social protection amongst platform workers in Germany: forced individualisation, hybrid income generation and undesired regulation5
UK resident preferences on tax reform: survey-based evidence suggests support for progressive change in the run up to the 2024 General Election5
The Effect of Social Benefit Reform on Educational Inequality4
Making the most of language acquisition of Syrian asylum permit holders in the Netherlands: the role of policy factors examined4
JSP volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
Did the COVID-19 pandemic fuel public support for social protection?4
Jonathan Wistow (2022), Social Policy, Political Economy and the Social Contract, Bristol: Policy Press, £24.99, pp. 190, pbk.4
Reframing long-term care policy: from services to social determinants4
The unexpected impact of geographic access on take-up of social benefits4
How has the idea of prevention been conceptualised and progressed in adult social care in England?4
JSP volume 54 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
Philanthropic Foundations and Institutional Change under Rigid Authoritarianism: Exploring the Ford Foundation’s Historical Grantmaking in the Chinese Family Planning Field (1991–2005)4
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa4
Co-producing care: roles and strategies of informal carers4
Take-up and distribution of a universal cash benefit: The case of the Austrian long-term care allowance4
Universal Credit: administrative burdens of automated welfare3
The two-child policy was not associated with an increase in abortions among its target population3
Global Patterns of Contemporary Welfare States – ERRATUM3
Attitudes toward government, rich and poor, and support for redistribution3
Discrimination in marketized welfare services: a field experiment on Swedish schools3
Unemployment entry and life satisfaction in Germany: types of unemployment benefits and the mediating roles of income losses and material deprivation dimensions3
New shades of conflict? Theorising the multi-dimensional politics of eco-social policies3
Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Co-Production Processes in the Disability Sector: Individual and Collection Action Views3
Which Active Labor Market Policies Work for Male Refugees? Evidence from Germany – CORRIGENDUM3
JSP volume 52 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
Inequality of Opportunity in Health Among Urban, Rural, and Migrant Children: Evidence from China3
Fostering societal participation of marginalised people in street-outreach services in the Netherlands3
Housing affordability and poverty in Europe: on the deteriorating position of market renters2
Paternalism in Australian parliamentary debate: the case of drug testing social security recipients2
Support or suppress: Father’s parental leave uptake in the private-sector workplace context in Finland2
JSP volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
Between left and right: A discourse network analysis of Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter2
Paternity leave-taking and US Fathers’ participation in housework2
Which training leads to employment? The effectiveness of varying types of training programmes for unemployed jobseekers in Flanders2
Why Do People Support or Oppose Maximum Income? Ideological Dispersion around Four Positions and Shared Concerns about Implementation2
Can activation policies foster sustainable wellbeing? Phenomenological analysis of long-term unemployed jobseekers’ lived experiences2
Social and environmental protection: the effects of social insurance generosity on the acceptance of material sacrifices for the sake of environmental protection2
JSP volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
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
The Rise and Fall of Social Housing? Housing Decommodification in Long-run Comparison2
Rethinking street-level bureaucracy: everyday bordering and networks of enactment and resistance in mixed welfare economies2
Do crisis narratives encourage redistribution? Australian housing policy debates during COVID-192
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin, Private Violence: Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum (New York University Press, 2024) ISBN: 97814798243282
Who deserves economic relief? Examining Twitter/X debates about Covid-19 economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed in Germany2
Varieties of engagement: exploring the micro-practices of managers in employing disadvantaged jobseekers2
Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: foundations of the US ecosocial safety net2
Welfare Expansion without Inequality Reduction: Institutional Explanation of Old-Age Poverty in Korea2
Hope in a paranoid place? Critique, utopianism and prefigurative policy reform2
JSP volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Front matter2
Unconditional cash transfers and compliance with public health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States2
Employer-provided childcare across the 50 United States: the normative importance of public childcare and female leadership1
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
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
A crisis-induced bricolage policy in Australia: ethical contradictions in policymaking in times of crisis1
The dynamic effects of becoming disabled on work, wages and wellbeing in the UK from 1991 to 20181
Female mayors do not lead to greater childcare provision – Evidence from Polish municipalities1
Charities’ income during the COVID-19 pandemic: administrative evidence for England and Wales1
Disability, Happiness and the Welfare State: Finland and the Nordic Model, edited by Hisayo Katsui and Matti T. Laitinen (Routledge, 2024, 230 pp., ISBN 978-1-032-46621-5 [hbk], 978-1-032-46622-2 [pbk1
Tom Bewick, Skills Policy in Britain and the Future of Work: A Historical-Political Analysis, Policy Press, 2025, pp. 320, ISBN: 978-1447372226 (Paperback), and USD 49.95 (Paperback)1
Performance and trust in child protection systems: a comparative analysis of England and Norway1
JSP volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Goodbye human annotators? Content analysis of social policy debates using ChatGPT1
The Journal of Social Policy Turns 50 – Time for Reflections and Looking to the Future1
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
JSP volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Beyond individual responsibility – towards a relational understanding of financial resilience through participatory research and design1
Towards policies of dignity? The German Participation Opportunities Act as a response to long-term unemployment1
JSP volume 53 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Territory and solidarity: evidence from Taiwan’s pension policy reform1
A Framework for Evaluating the Adequacy of Disability Benefit Programs and its Application to the U.S. Social Security Disability Programs1
Suspicious Minds? Media effects on the perception of disability benefit claimants1
Social bridging finance: a new Scottish model for financing public service design and delivery?1
Horses for Courses: Subject Differences in the Chances of Securing Different Types of Graduate Jobs in the UK1
A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK1
Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger and Marta Lorimer (2022), Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 200, pbk.1
Peter Taylor-Gooby (2022), A Kinder City: A Market World Novel, Market Harborough: Troubador Publishing, £9.99, pp. 320 pbk, £2.99 ebook.1
Polarisation and inequality: ‘peace’ in Northern Ireland1
JSP volume 55 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
Weakly institutionalized, heavily contested: Does support for contemporary welfare reforms rely on norms of distributive justice?1
Embedded and exterior practices of cross-sector co-production: the impact of fields – CORRIGENDUM1
JSP volume 53 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
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 States1
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
JSP volume 53 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
The politics of minimum income reform in Spain: explaining unexpected and consensual path departure1
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