Social Policy & Administration

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Exploring the Disciplinary State: The Pace and Pattern of ‘Getting Tough’ in Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom Since 1990	35
Digital First? Understanding Citizens' Communication Needs in Digital Public Encounters	32
Reforming Long‐Term Care Provision and Work in Post‐Pandemic Times: Scope and Drivers of Policy Change in the Spanish Decentralised System	29
Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2022	26
Perceptions of Poverty and Policy Preferences: The Contribution of Q Methodology	24
Austerity from the left: Social democratic parties in the shadow of the great recession. By BjörnBremer, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2023). £83.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9780192872210	22
Jesse Hajer & John Loxley (2021). Social service, private gain: The political economy of social impact bonds, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0328‐4 (cloth),	20
The politics of social policies in Portugal: Different responses in times of crises	20
Understanding migrants' attitudes towards state pension: The role of length of stay and settlement intention	20
User‐Centred Design in Child Welfare: Importance of an Anti‐Racism Lens	20
Governing Personal Assistance in Three East Asian Countries: Policy Choices and the Experiences of Disabled People	19
Fertility‐based employment discrimination and family policy: Evidence from a field experiment	19
Street‐Level Bureaucrats Manufacturing Migrants: An Implementation Study of Policy Measures to Address Statelessness in the Dominican Republic	18
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Introduction: The Dynamics of Migration Policy Implementation: The Frontline and Beyond	16
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	15
Divergent Institutional Logics—Implementing Supported Employment in Hybrid Contexts of Danish Public Employment Services	15
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Spatiality of Service Delivery in the Covid19 Pandemic: Transcending Spatial Boundaries or Accommodating Logistical Challenges?	14
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea	14
Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states	14
Food insecurity: The resilient, but “silent poverty” perspectives of older ethnic minority individuals within UK communities	14
Welfare state regimes and social policy resistance to fiscal consolidations	14
Social investment, labour market participation and public debt sustainability: An empirical analysis of European countries	13
Looking beyond the workplace: Trade unions and the politics of poverty in Italy	13

Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?	12
Revisiting the role of social work in the substantial realization of social rights in local welfare systems: Transforming and changing the rules of the institutional game?	12
Handbook on social protection systemsby EstherSchüring, MarkusLoewe (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. ISBN: 9781839109102; £375.00 (Hardback)	12
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	11
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation	10
Beyond Formal Coverage: The True Reach of Family Policies in Latin America	10
Upskilling as integration policy: Making the most of refugees' human capital in a context of skill shortage	10
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia	10
Verification of policy information and citizen attitudes toward government under COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from survey experiment in South Korea	10
Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study	10
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme	10
Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state	9
Social policy: A critical and intersectional analysis By Fiona WilliamsMickCarpenterPolicy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781509540396; £18.99 (pbk)	8
Screening for Asylum at Airports: The Implementation of the ‘Manifestly Unfounded’ Filter in France and Germany, 1980–2005	8
Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform	8
The industrialisation thesis, revisited: Understanding welfare expansion in China through social expenditure data (2000–2019)	8
Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom: Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable?	8
Improving the Likelihood of Positive Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Considering Intersections Between Justice, Gender, and Trauma	7
Protected against all odds? A mixed‐methods study on the risk of welfare sanctions for immigrants in Germany	7
Beyond financial constraints: The politics of Irish health system reform in the aftermath of the great recession	7
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Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland	7
To Comply or Not to Comply, That Is the Question: The Street‐Level Implementation of Jurisprudence by Migration Officers	7
“You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims	7
The Wage Stop and Restricting Benefit Income in the United Kingdom: Discretion, Wages and Hardship	7
The Discretionary Power of Street‐Level Bureaucrats From the Perspective of Illusio	7
National charitable fundraising for the NHS, 1948–2023	6
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The impact of universal credit rollout on homelessness assistance need in Scottish local authorities	6
Left partisan politics and pension privatisation at the crossroads of political legacy and contemporary politics (1980–2017)	6
How to Fix the Welfare State? Some Ideas for Better Social Services. By PaulSpicker, Policy Press, 2022, 162pp. £27.99	6
TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states	6
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The moral, the political and social licence in digitally‐driven family policy and intervention: Parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families	6
National health services of Western Europe: Challenges, reforms and future perspectives. By GuidoGiarelli, MikeSaks (Eds.), London: Routledge. 2024. £130.00; hardback. ISBN: 9780367689599	6
European Union Youth Policy: Moving Beyond Mobility	6
The Making of a Left‐Behind Class Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation. by FredPowell, MargaretScanlon, PatrickLeahy, HilaryJenkinson and	6
The Use and Impact of Well‐Being Metrics on Policymaking: Developers' and Users' Perspectives in Scotland and Italy	6
Christopher Deeming. Minimum income standards and reference budgets, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐5295‐2; pp 351	5
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Implementing Proximate Welfare Programs in Weak Institutional Contexts: Lessons From the Global South	5
The politics of the welfare state in Turkey: How social movements and elite competition created a welfare state. By ErdemYörük, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2022. pp. 221. 29.25 USD (paper	5
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Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship	5
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Introduction: 20 years of welfare reform in China (2000–2020): Challenges from developmentalism to COVID‐19	5
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How Do Non‐Standard Work and Labour Market Policy Spending Shape Preferences for Training Versus Unemployment Benefits in Budgetary Trade‐Offs?	5
‘Money anxiety’: Understanding HE students' experiences of the cost‐of‐living crisis	5
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Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £25	5
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	5
Explaining Social Policy Expansion: The Curious Case of the Justin Trudeau Era in Canada	5
Managing the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Perceived Risks and Social Policy Preferences Among Firm‐Level Decision Makers	4
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe	4
Do you know to whom you pay your taxes? The case of decentralised Spain	4
Social rights in EU and its member states	4
Emergency welfare states in action: Social policy adaptations to COVID‐19 in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	4
Work and alienation in the platform economy. Amazon and the power of organisation. By SarrahKassem, Bristol University Press. 2023. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781529226546	4
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises	4
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A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England: What was it meant to achieve?	4
Explaining Variation in Decision‐Making Authority for Care Managers in a Decentralised Welfare State	4
Constrained ‘choices’: Optional familism and educational divides in work‐family arrangements	4
Program Design to Ease Administrative Burden in Times of Crisis: An Evaluation of Two Emergency Aid Programs in Los Angeles	4
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Living with financial insecurity: Analysing the impact of the cost‐of‐living crisis on older ethnic minority people	4
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Addressing hardship and climate change: Citizens' perceptions of costs of living, social inequalities and priorities for policy	3
Welfare service reforms: Arab minority welfare bureau managers assess the outcomes	3
The Role of Tax‐Benefit Systems in Reducing the Gender Income Gap in Latin America	3
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Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	3
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Moving Beyond Regulation: Cross‐Sectoral Coordination in Providing Holistic Care in For‐Profit Residential Homes for Disabled People	3
Gender Equality in Conditional Cash Transfer Designs. A Disappearing Policy Recipe in Latin America and the World Bank? (1st Edition). By NoraNagels, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. $119.99 (hardc	3
Social protection and state‐citizen relations: A review of the literature	3
Allowance or service: Public attitudes toward childcare‐related family policies in China	3
Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries	3
Living Wages in Latin America: An Assessment of Disparities and a Stakeholder Roadmap for Action	3
Nordic earner‐carer politics: A comparative and historical analysis (1st edition). By Anne LiseEllingsæter, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024. £95 (hardback). ISBN: 9781802207071	3
Crisis in the UK National Health Service: What does it mean, and what are the consequences?	3
Welfare conditionality and policy contingencies of school‐allowance retractions in Sweden	3
A scooping review of Scandinavian studies of sick‐listed' and social insurance officers' experiences of their encounters'	3
Alternative targeting methods for social assistance programs: Evidence from Tunisia	3
The Limits of the Possible: Third Sector Employability Support for Vulnerable Users and the Challenge of Job Quality	3
Women–state relations: The gendered politics of social protection provisioning in Zambia	3
What Can Be Learned at the Intersection of Crisis Management and Administrative Burdens? Evidence From a Systematic Review of the Governance of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme During	3
Delegated Governance in Segmented Welfare Regimes: How Non‐State Provision Shaped Childcare Policy Outcomes in Mexico	3
The ‘two lives’ of Esping‐Andersen and the revival of a research programme: Gender equality, employment and redistribution in contemporary social policy	3
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A path to professional capability: The Career Start Programme in Bulgaria as a strategy to youth development	3
The Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on School‐to‐School Transitions. A Study of Lower Secondary School Graduates	3
A job trial subsidy for youth: Cheap labour or a screening device?	3
Development and validation of the supervision practice in human services scale	2
Control pliers in principal‐agent relations: An investigation of hardship commissions in the German asylum administration	2
“I Know I Am Not Supposed to, but I Just Want Them to Feel Cozy”: Dissonance Between the Co‐Production Myth and Persistence of the Care Paradigm in Public Service Encounters	2
The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor: A 200‐year History. StewartLansley. Bristol: Policy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781447363217; £19.99 (Pbk)	2
Financing and Provision of Long‐Term Care in Europe: Reflections on Intergenerational Solidarity in Care for Older People	2
‘It's the kids that suffer’: Exploring how the UK's benefit cap and two‐child limit harm children	2
Active stewardship in healthcare: Lessons from China's health policy reforms	2
Policy entrepreneurship at the street level: Understanding the effect of the individualNissimCohenCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108818865; £15 (Pbk)	2
The divisive state of social policy: The ‘bedroom tax,’ austerity and housing insecurity by Kelly BogueBristol: Policy press, 2019. ISBN: 9781447350538; £60 (Hbk)	2
An ‘interface first’ bureaucracy: Interface design, universal credit and the digital welfare state	2
Determinants of the Unconditional Basic Income Acceptance Among German Citizens: An Empirical Analysis Based on Innovation Resistance Theory	2
Social policy in the Islamic world. Ali AkbarTajmazinaniBasingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. ISBN: 9783030577537; £71.50 (ebk)	2
Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security	2
The Role of Institutional Trust in European Healthcare Evaluations—A Comparison of Absolute and Relative Healthcare Attitudes During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	2
Not seeing the elephant in the room: How policy discourses shape frontline work with child poverty	2
Comparison of Policy Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic. Does It Reproduce the Old Patterns?	2
Dealing with drift: Comparing social care reform in the four nations of the UK	2
Corporations and the cost of living crisis: Corporate involvement in UK food charity	2
Intersectionality, agency and take‐up of benefits among families living in poverty	2
A history of the intermediate tier in the English NHS: Centre, region, periphery	2
Choosing not to choose—Patients' justification of a disengaged choice of primary care provider	2
Active representation and equal treatment: The influence of bureaucrats' social background on discrimination	2
Mobilizing voluntary action in the UK: Learning from the pandemic. By IreneHardill, JurdenGrotz, LauraCrawford (Eds.), Bristol: Policy Press Shorts. 2022. pp. 202. £14.99 (paperback) or 1447367239OA (	2
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‘Show me you're trying, that's all…’: Exploring the discursive impact of punishments and incentives in the Welsh homelessness system as ‘controlled conditionalities’	2
The market made us do it: Public procurement and collaborative labour market inclusion governance from below	2
The multi‐dimensional politics of education policy in the knowledge economy: The case of Italy (1996–2008)	2
Social citizenship in an age of welfare regionalism: The state of the social union. By MarkSimpson, Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing, Hart. 2022. pp. 241. £76.50. 198 + xxi pp	2
The politics of disaggregated family policy: The role of party ideology and women's political representation in governments	2
Policy Failure in the Lives of Young Disabled People: In Search of Good Transitions	2
Do carer tasks predict carer employment? Evidence from the Survey of Adult Carers in England	2
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Street‐level bureaucrats' discretion between individual and institutional factors: The analysis of the minimum income policy implementation in two Italian regions	2
Short‐term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy	2
The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective	2

The hidden side of Social Europe: Revealing welfare Euroscepticism through focus group discussions	2
The culture of education regimes: Efficiency, equality and governance in education and social policy	2
Does the unemployment trap still exist? The case of the Italian minimum income scheme	2
“I never planned for it”—Exploration of expectations about caring for older parents	2
Implementation structures at work. Exploring implementation and de‐implementation attempts regarding Housing First and Individual Placement and Support	2
Big data and the welfare state. How the information revolution threatens social solidarity. TorbenIversen and PhilippRehm. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN:	2
Monetary redress for abuse in state care. By StephenWinter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. ISBN: 9781009082662. Open Access (online) ISBN: 9781316514160; 223 pages; £85 (Hbk)	2
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Austerity across Europe: Lived experiences of economic crisesSarah Marie Hall, Helena Pimlott‐Wilson and John HortonLondon: Routledge, 2020. ISBN: 9780429201332; £36.99 (ebk)	1
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Once again: Are welfare states in crisis?	1
Disability Employment Policy in Australia: Barriers and Facilitators to Workforce Participation	1
No welfare without workfare? Revisiting varieties of minimum income schemes in Europe (2008–2022)	1
Citizens' expectations about social protection in multilevel governance: The interplay between national and supranational institutions	1
The NHS at 75: Many unhappy returns?	1
Women's management in local government: The effects of substantive representation on welfare service efficiency	1
Innovation for the masses: How to share the benefits of the high‐tech economy. By NeilLee, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2024. pp. 248. £23.00/$26.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 9780520394889	1
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No activation without reconciliation? The interplay between ALMP and ECEC in relation to women's employment, unemployment and inactivity in 30 OECD countries, 1985–201	1
Cost of Living/Cost of Smoking: A Demonstration Study of Cooperative Action Learning to Understand and Address Smoking in Deprived Communities Within the Cost‐of‐Living Crisis	1
Women, Vulnerabilities and Welfare Service Systems, Routledge Advances in Social work. Kuronen, M., Virokannas, E., & Salovaara, U.Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2021.	1
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Activation, Work and Well‐Being: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications	1
Adequacy and Sustainability of Future Retirement Pensions in the Baltics: Analysis Based on Lithuania	1
Ball, S. (2022). Behavioural public policy in Australia: How an idea became practice. London/New York: Routledge ISBN: 9781032269719; £130.00	1
Towards Social Europe? Obstacles and opportunities in the multi‐level governance of welfare states	1
The European Pillar of Social Rights: How strategic agency shaped the European Union's flagship social initiative	1
Who deserves what and why during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Applying the CARIN principles of deservingness to the American welfare state	1
The world politics of social investment: Volume II. Julian L.Garritzmann (Ed.), SiljaHäusermann (Ed.), BrunoPalier (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. £64 (hardback). ISBN: 978019	1
In search of a job—But which one? How unemployed people revise their occupational expectations	1
On the effects of active labour market policies among individuals reporting to have severe mental health problems	1
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Generation rent on the housing treadmill: A study on South Korea's housing allowance programmes and recurring precarity	1
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Towards a new era in the governance of integrated activation: A systematic review of the literature on the governance of welfare benefits and employment‐related services in Europe (2010–21)	1
Training in the age of liberalization and crisis: Understanding the learning experiences of young Active Labour Market Programme Participants	1
The Relationship Between Perceptions of Social Service Quality and Subjective Well‐Being	1
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Public Encounters as Venues for Citizen Empowerment: The ‘In‐Between’ in the Belgian Probation Sector	1
Developing a novel inclusive policy analysis framework based on capability approach and institutional analysis and development method	1
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Conflictual and consensual class relations in collective governance: Comparing the expansion of short apprenticeships in Germany and Switzerland	1
Let's talk about our feelings: Emotional labour of community practice in times of pandemic	1
Distributed leadership in nursing and healthcare: Theory, evidence and development Edited byElizabeth A.Curtis, MartinBeirne, John G.Cullen, RuthNorway and Siobhan M.Corrigan : Open University Press,	1
Means‐Tested Welfare Benefits and Subjective Well‐Being Through Time: Does Clients' Life Satisfaction Recover?	1
Correction to: Education and ignorance in the UK 80 years after Beveridge: The role of government and equality of opportunity	1
Teaching Social Policy: International, Comparative and Global PerspectivesBy ZoëIrving (ed.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023. 240 pp. £90 (hardback) and £23.35 (softback). ISBN: 978‐1‐03530‐200‐0	1
Markets or unions? De‐unionisation and German firms' provision of flexible working‐time policies from 2002 to 2016	1
Changes in Social Assistance Policies and Subjective Well‐Being: Lessons From Kazakhstan	1
The Future of Social Policy (1st Edition). By BentGreve, London: Routledge, 2025. 110 pp. £39.99 (paperback), £145.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐284728‐3	1
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Human Rights and the Care of Older People: Dignity, Vulnerability, and the Anti‐Torture NormBy MaeveO'Rourke, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 242 pp. £90 (Hbk). ISBN: 9780191953002.	1
The EPSR and the Next Generation EU: Heralding a reconfiguration of social protection in South Europe?	1
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Swedish unions and obligatory complementary income insurance: Securing unemployment benefits in a changing welfare state	1
Automatically Prepared? How Frontline Workers Cope in the Face of Automation	1
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Welfare that works for women? Mothers' experiences of the conditionality within universal credit. By KateAnderson, Bristol: Policy Press. 2023. pp. 192. £45.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐1447366386	1
Adaptive social protection in Indonesia: Stress‐testing the effect of a natural disaster on poverty and vulnerability	1
The next UK welfare state? UK welfare after COVID‐19, by ChristopherPierson, Bristol: Policy Press, 2021, 162 pages	1
Health systems in the COVID‐19 crises: Comparative patterns of NHS satisfaction and preferences for public health action in Scotland and England	0
Mixed Framing: Blame Avoidance and Credit‐Claiming in Retrenchment Politics	0
In Search of a Connection: Public Procurement and Active Labour Market Policies in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia	0
The world politics of social investment. Volume 1: Welfare states in the knowledge economy. By J.Garritzmann, S.Häusermann, B.Palier (Eds.), Oxford University Press. 2022. pp. 488. £57.00 (Hardback).	0
Informal social capital building in local employment services: Its role in the labour market integration of disadvantaged young people	0
Social protection, community participation and state‐citizen relations: Evidence from a cash transfer program in south‐central Somalia	0
Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights	0
Policy representation of everyday harm experienced by people with disability	0
Governing Access to Nationality Through Paperwork: The Discretionary Uses of Documentation for Naturalisation in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom	0
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Cash transfers after electoral violence: A case study of citizen‐state relations in Nakuru, Kenya	0
Is there a trade‐off between housing and pension system generosity? Empirical evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study	0
Fathering and poverty: Uncovering men's participation in low‐income family life	0
The long term relationship between childhood Medicaid expansions and severe chronic conditions in adulthood	0
Central coordination, regional competition, and local protectionism: Social decentralisation in China's long‐term care reform	0
The Routledge handbook of the welfare state. Greve, B.London: Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9780367659875; £27.99 (Pbk)	0
How Do Ideas Get in the Way of Policy Change? A Comparative Study of Homelessness Policy in Toronto and Montréal, Canada	0
A research agenda for governance. By B. GuyPeters, JonPierre, EvaSørensen, & JacobTorfing. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. ISBN: 9781788117982; £80.00 (Hbk)	0
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Activation through marketisation as a process of ignorancing	0
A Genealogy of the Scarring Theory of Unemployment: Reconsidering the Economic Narrative That Drives Activation Policies	0
State childcare provision in China: Subnational variations and localized policy contexts across 31 mainland provinces	0
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HartleyDean (2020). Understanding human need, 2nd edition, Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN 9781447341987, Pbk, £25.99	0
Comparing the Impacts of Czech ALMP Training Programmes Implemented During the 2020 COVID‐19 Pandemic to Programmes in 2016 and 2019	0
Follow the hand that feeds you? The effects of non‐governmental cash transfers on citizenship	0
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How do right‐wing populist majoritarian governments redistribute? Evidence from Poland, 2005–2019	0
A nation in crisis: Division, conflict and capitalism in the United Kingdom. By NevilleKirk, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2024. £21.99. ISBN: 9781350374508 (pbk)	0
Collaboration Through a Computer Screen: Migrant Integration Services and the Challenges of Co‐Producing Services Online	0
Reshaping state–citizen relationships through donor‐designed targeting systems in Lesotho and Malawi	0
Translational State Power: Managing Interpreters to Make Asylum Seekers Talk in the French Asylum Bureaucracy	0
Expanding Perceived Capacity of Public Sector Workers: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of a Counter‐Stereotypical Narrative on Public Perceptions of Correctional Officers	0
Work inclusion of marginalised groups in a troubled city district—How can active labour market policies improve?	0