Social Policy & Administration

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Policy & Administration is 0. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
COVID‐19 and care homes in England: What happened and why?76
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis71
The next generation EU: An analysis of the dimensions of conflict behind the deal69
Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Canada and the United States: Explaining policy variations between two liberal welfare state regimes62
The unequal distribution of administrative burden: A framework and an illustrative case study for understanding variation in people's experience of burdens59
Nordic welfare states—still standing or changed by the COVID‐19 crisis?53
Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic49
COVID‐19, the Great Recession and social policy: Is this time different?48
The COVID‐19 crisis and policy responses by continental European welfare states47
Inequalities and poverty risks in old age across Europe: The double‐edged income effect of pension systems45
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis in Central and Eastern Europe42
Recent pension reforms in Europe: More challenges, new directions. An overview42
Governing new authoritarianism: Populism, nationalism and radical welfare reforms in Hungary and Poland38
Common shock, different paths? Comparing social policy responses to COVID‐19 in the UK and Ireland36
Digital coping: How frontline workers cope with digital service encounters34
Extending working lives: How policies shape retirement and labour market participation of older workers33
In the eye of the stormagain! Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Southern Europe31
The causes of welfare state expansion in democratic middle‐income countries: A literature review28
Withstanding the plague: Institutional resilience of the East Asian welfare state22
State‐NGOs relationship in the context of China contracting out social services18
We have our dignity, yeah? Scrutiny under suspicion: Experiences of welfare conditionality in the Irish social protection system18
The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development17
Comparing long‐term care systems: A multi‐dimensional, actor‐centred typology16
Informal social protection: A conceptual synthesis15
Decent work for sustainable development in post‐crisis Nepal: Social policy challenges and a way forward14
Fifty years of welfare state generosity14
Reducing unemployment? Examining the interplay between active labour market policies14
Labour market liberalization and the rise of dualism in Europe as the interplay between governments, trade unions and the economy13
Flexibility in individual funding schemes: How well did Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme support remote learning for students with disability during COVID‐19?13
The growth of private home care providers in Europe: The case of Ireland13
Contextualised resistance: The mediating power of paradigmatic frameworks12
From austerity‐conditionality towards a new investment‐led growth strategy: Social Europe after the Recovery and Resilience Facility12
Carrots or sticks? A multilevel analysis of active labour market policies and non‐standard employment in Europe11
Changing the healthcare financing paradigm: Domestic actors and international organizations in the agenda setting for diffusion of social health insurance in post‐communist Central and Eastern Europe11
Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security11
The consequences of non‐standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective11
Market stewardship of quasi‐markets by street level bureaucrats: The role of local area coordinators in the Australian personalisation system10
Integrating development aid into social policy: Lessons on cooperation and its challenges learned from the example of health care in Kyrgyzstan10
Punitive welfare reform and claimant mental health: The impact of benefit sanctions on anxiety and depression9
Measuring and framing support for universal basic income9
Addressing loneliness and social isolation amongst elderly people through local co‐production in Japan9
A mechanism‐based approach to the comparison of national pension systems in Vietnam and Sri Lanka9
Linking macro‐level mechanisms to street‐level accountability practices. A cross‐national case study of street‐level accountability of social workers in government funded homeless shelters9
Managing precarity: Food bank use by low‐income women workers in a changing welfare regime9
Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries9
‘Nearly gave up on it to be honest’: Utilisation of individualised budgets by people with psychosocial disability within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme9
Frontline social service as a battlefield: Insights from street‐level bureaucrats' interactions with violent clients9
Class politics in the sandbox? An analysis of the socio‐economic determinants of preferences towards public spending and parental fees for childcare8
From “what works” to “making it work”: A practice perspective on evidence‐based standardization in frontline service organizations8
When policy entrepreneurs fail: Explaining the failure of long‐term care reforms in Poland8
Inequalities in pensions and retirement from a life course perspective: An introduction8
Work–family balance in the second half of life: Caregivers' decisions regarding retirement and working time reduction in Europe8
Buying for good: Altruism, ethical consumerism and social policy7
Affects of policy design: The case of young carers in the Care Act 2014 and the Children and Families Act 20147
Translating social policy ideas: The Beveridge report, transnational diffusion, andpost‐warwelfare state development in Canada, Denmark, and France7
No activation without reconciliation? The interplay between ALMP and ECEC in relation to women's employment, unemployment and inactivity in 30 OECD countries, 1985–2017
Varieties of liberalism: A comparative analysis of family policy and poverty outcomes across the 50 United States7
The market made us do it: Public procurement and collaborative labour market inclusion governance from below7
Is Nordic elder care facing a (new) collaborative turn?7
Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s7
Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south7
Moral framings in the Australian parliamentary debate on drug testing of welfare recipients6
Efficiency and sustainability in municipal social policies6
Citizen‐agency versus state‐agency at the frontline in prisons and probation services: A systematic literature review6
Public employment services: Building social resilience in youth?6
Explaining Italian “exceptionalism” and its end: Minimum income from neglect to hyper‐politicization6
Public income transfers and wealth accumulation at the bottom: Within and between country differences in Canada and the United States6
Between affordable welfare and affordable food: Internationalized food subsidy reforms in Egypt and Tunisia6
Active stewardship in healthcare: Lessons from China's health policy reforms6
Central coordination, regional competition, and local protectionism: Social decentralisation in China's long‐term care reform6
Implementation of individual placement and support in a first‐episode psychosis unit: A new way of working6
The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived: A Trojan horse dilemma?6
Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm6
Social investments in the knowledge economy: The politics of inclusive, stratified, and targeted reforms across the globe5
Integrated care and the ‘agentification’ of the English National Health Service5
Individual need and societal claims: Challenging the understanding of universalism versus selectivism in social policy5
“I don't know what to do—Could it be cultural?” The operationalization of cultural sensitivity among street‐level workers in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration5
The power of ideas in policymaking processes: The role of institutionalised knowledge production in state bureaucracies5
Politicalized empowered learning and complex policy implementation: Targeted poverty alleviation in China's county governments5
TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states5
The EPSR and the Next Generation EU: Heralding a reconfiguration of social protection in South Europe?5
Bureaucratic conflict between transnational actor coalitions: The diffusion of British National Vocational Qualifications to China5
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?5
Education as social policy: New tensions in maturing knowledge economies5
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?5
A critical review of cost‐effectiveness research in children's social care: What have we learnt so far?5
Impression management in the market for residential care for children and youth in Sweden4
Fugitive coproduction: Conceptualising informal community practices in Scotland's hospitals4
Pension reforms, the generational welfare contract and preferences for pro‐old welfare policies in Europe4
The long and short of it: The temporal significance of wealth and income4
Gender, welfare state regimes and social policy beyond advanced capitalism: Pathways to decommodification in middle‐income countries4
Sick but at work: Graded sick leave in a comparative perspective4
Buffering national welfare states in hard times: The politics of EU capacity‐building in the social policy domain4
Who deserves what and why during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Applying the CARIN principles of deservingness to the American welfare state4
Hybridization in China's elder care service provision4
Signs of the gender revolution's second phase? Historical and cross‐national development of fathers' leave provisions4
Information, reflection, and successful job search: A labor market policy experiment4
Women's management in local government: The effects of substantive representation on welfare service efficiency3
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion3
Implementation structures at work. Exploring implementation and de‐implementation attempts regarding Housing First and Individual Placement and Support3
Choose your battles: How civil society organisations choose context‐specific goals and activities to fight for immigrant welfare rights in Malaysia and Argentina3
Evaluating social policies: Do methodological approaches determine the policy impact?3
Same same but different? Comparing institutional performance in the long‐term care systems of Japan and South Korea3
Protected against all odds? A mixed‐methods study on the risk of welfare sanctions for immigrants in Germany3
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation3
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme3
Dealing with drift: Comparing social care reform in the four nations of the UK3
Accommodation and new hurdles: The increasing importance of politics for immigrants' access to social programmes in Western democracies3
How does self‐employment affect pension income? A comparative analysis of European welfare states3
E Hine: Young Māori mothers talk about welfare benefits3
Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship3
Multi‐level governance and central‐local tensions: The issue of local discretion in long‐term care policy in Italy3
Follow the hand that feeds you? The effects of non‐governmental cash transfers on citizenship3
Policy success: What is the role of implementation support programmes?3
Education and ignorance in the UK 80 years after Beveridge: The role of government and equality of opportunity3
Are attitudes in employees of public employment service in line with the principles of individual placement and support? A questionnaire‐based survey3
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises3
Welfare contracting with Chinese socialist characteristics: Experience of the Bohai Bay Economic Rim, Northern China3
Cross‐sectoral frontline delivery of welfare‐to‐work services for young adults with complex problems in Norway3
Accounting for what and to whom? Accountability tensions in collaborations addressing long‐term unemployment3
Citizens' expectations about social protection in multilevel governance: The interplay between national and supranational institutions2
Do governments account for gender when designing their social protection systems? Findings from an analysis of national social protection strategies2
The (changing) consideration of social investment in the design of welfare benefits: The case of poverty relief in Austria2
Social policy reform driven by crises: Promoting and reshaping social policy during the SARS and COVID‐19 pandemics in China2
The multi‐dimensional politics of education policy in the knowledge economy: The case of Italy (1996–2008)2
Social security or insecurity? The experience of welfare participation by financially vulnerable households in the Netherlands2
Including migrant skills in a knowledge economy: The politics of recognition of foreign qualifications, work experience and industry courses2
Exploring the politics of strain: Crime and welfare in remote Indigenous Australia2
The ‘New Five Giants’—Conceptualising the challenges facing societal progress in the 21st century2
Guiding principles for social security policy: Outcomes from a bottom‐up approach2
How divided is the attitudinal context for policymaking? Changes in public attitudes to the welfare state, inequality and immigration over two decades in Britain2
A scooping review of Scandinavian studies of sick‐listed' and social insurance officers' experiences of their encounters'2
Markets or unions? De‐unionisation and German firms' provision of flexible working‐time policies from 2002 to 20162
How does she do it all? Effects of education on reconciliation of employment and informal caregiving among Austrian women2
The provision of work–life balance practices across welfare states and industries and their impact on extraordinary turnover2
Deregulation, quality and access—The case of legal professionals in Poland2
Central‐local tensions in the decentralization of social policies: Street‐level bureaucrats and social practices in the Netherlands2
Let's talk about our feelings: Emotional labour of community practice in times of pandemic2
The employment of people with lived experience of disability in Australian disability services2
Introduction to special issue: States, citizens and social protection in Africa2
Towards a more all‐inclusive evaluation of interventions for unemployed youth: A longitudinal investigation of participant, programme, relational and contextual factors2
Not seeing the elephant in the room: How policy discourses shape frontline work with child poverty2
Old‐age poverty in a pension latecomer: The impact of basic pension expansions in South Korea2
Determinants of social assistance caseloads for employable single adults without dependants in Canada2
Social protection and state‐citizen relations: A review of the literature2
Generation rent on the housing treadmill: A study on South Korea's housing allowance programmes and recurring precarity2
Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform2
Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states2
Emergency welfare states in action: Social policy adaptations to COVID‐19 in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia2
Digital policy to disability employment? An ecosystem perspective on China and Australia2
Reversed socioeconomic pattern in the costs of caring regarding well‐being and paid work among women in Sweden2
Education as a tool of social equality?2
The operation of the social support sector serving siblings of people with disabilities: A cross‐country analysis2
Does capping social security harm health? A natural experiment in the UK2
Care earnings in the United States and 24 European countries: The role of social policy and labour market institutions2
Widening double dualisation? Labour market inequalities and national social policy responses in Western Europe during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic2
Social class bias in welfare sanctioning judgements: Experimental evidence from a nationally representative sample2
‘I've probably risk assessed this myself’: Choice, control and participant co‐regulation in a disability individualised funding scheme2
The politics of disaggregated family policy: The role of party ideology and women's political representation in governments1
Living wages in Portugal: In search of dignity in a polarised labour market1
Choice and opportunity on the welfare care market: An experimental evaluation of decision‐making in a context of individual funding policy1
Different understandings of welfare benefits among the Dutch public: A focus group study1
Beveridge on idleness1
Whatever happened to the Child Trust Fund? The abandonment of universal savings for UK children1
European long‐term care marketisation: A political economy framework1
The moral, the political and social licence in digitally‐driven family policy and intervention: Parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families1
Creating relationship‐based practice in youth employment services—Converting policy intentions to practical program design1
Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland1
From policy to politics? Exploring feedback effects of social protection on state‐citizen relations in Ghana1
The politics of safety net reform in Southern Europe during the Great Recession: Introduction to the regional issue1
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia1
Crisis in the UK National Health Service: What does it mean, and what are the consequences?1
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea1
The effect of paid maternity leave on low‐income families' welfare use in the US1
Framing Beveridge1
Beveridge, Bevan and institutional change in the UK welfare state1
Theorizing notions of the participation of people in poverty in social policymaking: Policing, politics and subjectification1
Reshaping state–citizen relationships through donor‐designed targeting systems in Lesotho and Malawi1
Gender and proposed Auto‐enrolment in the Republic of Ireland: Lessons from the UK1
‘Show me you're trying, that's all…’: Exploring the discursive impact of punishments and incentives in the Welsh homelessness system as ‘controlled conditionalities’1
The implementation of social protection in a conservative African welfare regime: The values and beliefs of local state officials in Botswana1
Knowledge, skills or social mobility? Citizens' perceptions of the purpose of education1
Does the unemployment trap still exist? The case of the Italian minimum income scheme1
Crises of the welfare state, resilience, and pessimism of the intellect1
Using candidacy theory to explore unemployed over‐50s perceptions of suitability of a welfare to work programme: A longitudinal qualitative study1
Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study1
Job search, transition to employment and discouragement among older unemployed welfare recipients in Germany1
Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state1
Feeling insecure and excluding immigrants: Relationship between subjective risks and welfare chauvinism1
The intergenerational transmission of income mobility between mothers and their young adult daughters: The mediating role of their daughters' educational attainment1
The two‐child limit and fertility decision making: When policy narratives and lived experiences collide1
Classifying participatory methods in social care regulation1
Development and validation of the supervision practice in human services scale1
Exit from open‐ended social benefits into employment: Access to work, active labour market policies and work intensity1
The culture of education regimes: Efficiency, equality and governance in education and social policy1
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Is there a trade‐off between housing and pension system generosity? Empirical evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study1
Social work and the state: Perspectives and practice1
The implosion of the Dutch surveillance welfare state1
Policy representation of everyday harm experienced by people with disability1
Who needs cash? The deservingness perceptions of Brazilian civil servants in cash‐based social policy implementation1
The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective1
Ratings, rankings and managing numbers: Professionals' perspectives on user surveys in Swedish nursing home care1
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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
The industrialisation thesis, revisited: Understanding welfare expansion in China through social expenditure data (2000–2019)1
Moving beyond stereotype: A qualitative study of long‐standing recipients of the Indonesian conditional cash transfers (CCT/PKH)1
Analysis of the effect of social capital on rural household poverty1
Welfare developmentalism with interactive central–local relations: Understanding the recent expansion in pension coverage in China1
All in, against all odds. Path shift in family policy via cross‐party agreement: the case of the Single Universal Allowance reform in Italy0
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)0
A history of the intermediate tier in the English NHS: Centre, region, periphery0
Does digital government hollow out the essence of street‐level bureaucracy? A systematic literature review of how digital tools' foster curtailment, enablement and continuation of street‐level decisio0
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Disability and care: State, society and invisible lives. UpaliChakravartiNew Delhi: Sage publications India, 2018. ISBN: 9789352807741, £32.99 (Hbk)0
The unequal pandemic: COVID‐19 and health inequalities. By ClareBambra, JuliaLynch, Katherine E.Smith, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2021. £9.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐14473612370
The settlement house movement revisited: A transnational history: John Gal, Stefan Köngeter and Sarah VicaryBristol, Policy Press, 2021. ISBN: 978‐1447354239; £60.00 (Pbk)0
Subnational policy innovation: The birth of social pensions in Mexico0
Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017‐2018, by Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikanno. 2021. ISBN: 978‐1‐83910‐484‐80
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), 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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Which employers have refugee employees—And which do not? Employer typologies developed through hierarchical cluster analyses0
Public understandings of welfare and the economy: Who knows what and does it relate to political attitudes?0
Robots and immigrants: Who is stealing jobs? By K.Maronitis, D.Pencheva, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2022. pp. 156. £26.99. ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐1271‐60
Variations in Social Europe? National political parties' positions on EU‐level social regulations0
Democratic contestation, organised labour, and pension reform in Ghana and Malawi0
Social policy review 31: Analysis and debate in social policyElkeHeins, JamesRees, and CatherineNeedham. Bristol: Policy Press, 2019. ISBN: 1447343981; £75 (Hbk)0
Control pliers in principal‐agent relations: An investigation of hardship commissions in the German asylum administration0
The politics of scale in policy: Scalecraft and education governance, by NataliePapanastasiouBristol: Policy Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781447343851; £60 (Hbk)0
Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £250
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Do carer tasks predict carer employment? Evidence from the Survey of Adult Carers in England0
Critical juncture and historical legacies: Insights and methods. By Collier, D., & Munck, G. L. (Eds.), London: The Rowman & Little‐field Publishing Group, Inc.2022. pp. 1–473. $92.70 (Hardcov0
The Four Lenses of Population Aging: Planning for the Future in Canada's Provinces. By PatrikMarier, University of Toronto Press, 2021, 368 Pages. £44.95 (Pbk)0
Buying and selling the poor: Inside Australia's privatised welfare‐to‐work marketSiobhanO'Sullivan, MichaelMcGann, MarkConsidineSydney University Press, Sydney (2021). ISBN: 97817433278690
Empowering the poor through financial and social inclusion in Africa an Islamic perspective. By Abdelrahman Elzahi SaaidAli (Ed.), Switzerland: Springer Nature. 2022. £130.00 (pbk). ISBN: 9783031009250
Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights0
Street‐level bureaucrats' discretion between individual and institutional factors: The analysis of the minimum income policy implementation in two Italian regions0
Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 20220
The quest for a divided welfare state: Sweden in the era of privatization. JohnLapidusBasingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2019. ISBN 9783030247836; £69.99 (Hbk)0
The case for universal basic incomeLouiseHaaghCambridge, Polity, 2019. ISBN: 9781509522965, £12.99 (Pbk)0
How does immigration affect welfare support in Korea?0
Palgrave handbook of co‐production of public services and outcomes. Elke Loeffler, Tony BovairdBasingstoke: Palgrave, 2021. ISBN: 9783030537050; £127.50 (Ebk).0
Clients, Consumers or Citizens? The Privatisation of Adult Social Care in EnglandBobHudsonBristol: Policy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781447355700; £24.99 (pbk)0
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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 pp0
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 (paper0
Work and alienation in the platform economy. Amazon and the power of organisation. By SarrahKassem, Bristol University Press. 2023. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN: 97815292265460
Activation through marketisation as a process of ignorancing0
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