Social Policy & Administration

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Policy & Administration 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.)
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Perceptions of Poverty and Policy Preferences: The Contribution of Q Methodology45
Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 202239
Exploring the Disciplinary State: The Pace and Pattern of ‘Getting Tough’ in Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom Since 199032
Reforming Long‐Term Care Provision and Work in Post‐Pandemic Times: Scope and Drivers of Policy Change in the Spanish Decentralised System28
Digital First? Understanding Citizens' Communication Needs in Digital Public Encounters25
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), 23
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: 978019287221023
Introduction: The Dynamics of Migration Policy Implementation: The Frontline and Beyond22
Public Encounters: Advancing the Study and Practice of Citizen‐State Relationships21
Governing Personal Assistance in Three East Asian Countries: Policy Choices and the Experiences of Disabled People18
To Politicise or to Depoliticise, That Is the Question! On Public Encounters in Deliberative Processes18
Divergent Institutional Logics—Implementing Supported Employment in Hybrid Contexts of Danish Public Employment Services18
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion17
The politics of social policies in Portugal: Different responses in times of crises17
Street‐Level Bureaucrats Manufacturing Migrants: An Implementation Study of Policy Measures to Address Statelessness in the Dominican Republic17
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Understanding migrants' attitudes towards state pension: The role of length of stay and settlement intention16
Fertility‐based employment discrimination and family policy: Evidence from a field experiment15
User‐Centred Design in Child Welfare: Importance of an Anti‐Racism Lens15
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Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states14
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?14
Organising Changes: The Institutional Work Behind the Implementation of a Minimum Income Scheme14
Handbook on social protection systemsby EstherSchüring, MarkusLoewe (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. ISBN: 9781839109102; £375.00 (Hardback)13
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?13
Looking beyond the workplace: Trade unions and the politics of poverty in Italy13
Beyond Formal Coverage: The True Reach of Family Policies in Latin America12
How Stakes Vary and Influence Crisis Decision‐Making: Evidence From Local Government Managers During COVID ‐1912
Social investment, labour market participation and public debt sustainability: An empirical analysis of European countries11
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea11
Spatiality of Service Delivery in the Covid19 Pandemic: Transcending Spatial Boundaries or Accommodating Logistical Challenges?11
Food insecurity: The resilient, but “silent poverty” perspectives of older ethnic minority individuals within UK communities11
Verification of policy information and citizen attitudes toward government under COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from survey experiment in South Korea11
Upskilling as integration policy: Making the most of refugees' human capital in a context of skill shortage11
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme11
Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?11
Social policy: A critical and intersectional analysis By Fiona WilliamsMickCarpenterPolicy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781509540396; £18.99 (pbk)10
The industrialisation thesis, revisited: Understanding welfare expansion in China through social expenditure data (2000–2019)10
Screening for Asylum at Airports: The Implementation of the ‘Manifestly Unfounded’ Filter in France and Germany, 1980–200510
Welfare state regimes and social policy resistance to fiscal consolidations10
The Wage Stop and Restricting Benefit Income in the United Kingdom: Discretion, Wages and Hardship10
Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom : Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable?9
TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states9
“You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims9
Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study9
National charitable fundraising for the NHS, 1948–20239
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation9
Navigating the Tension Lines of Value Co‐Creation: Frontline Care Staff's Experiences With Residential Transition Processes for Service Users in Co‐Located Supported Housing9
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia9
The impact of universal credit rollout on homelessness assistance need in Scottish local authorities8
National health services of Western Europe: Challenges, reforms and future perspectives. By GuidoGiarelli, MikeSaks (Eds.), London: Routledge. 2024. £130.00; hardback. ISBN: 97803676895998
Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland8
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How to Fix the Welfare State? Some Ideas for Better Social Services. By PaulSpicker, Policy Press, 2022, 162pp. £27.998
COVID ‐19 Pandemic: A Catalyst for More Comprehensive Unemployment Benefits for the Self‐Employed in Scandinavia?8
Beyond financial constraints: The politics of Irish health system reform in the aftermath of the great recession8
The Use and Impact of Well‐Being Metrics on Policymaking: Developers' and Users' Perspectives in Scotland and Italy8
European Union Youth Policy: Moving Beyond Mobility7
The Discretionary Power of Street‐Level Bureaucrats From the Perspective of Illusio7
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Improving the Likelihood of Positive Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Considering Intersections Between Justice, Gender, and Trauma7
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To Comply or Not to Comply, That Is the Question: The Street‐Level Implementation of Jurisprudence by Migration Officers7
Christopher Deeming. Minimum income standards and reference budgets, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐5295‐2; pp 3517
The Making of a LeftBehind Class Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation. by FredPowell, MargaretScanlon, PatrickLeahy, HilaryJenkinson and7
The Language of Public Encounters: Computational Measures of Complexity and Emotionality in Spoken Bureaucratic Communication6
The Politics of Social Care in Japan: How Central–Local Interactions Shaped Child Allowances and Elderly Medical Care6
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Welfare Conditionality as Administrative Burden: The Perceived Costs of (Potential) Sanctions and How Welfare Claimants Cope With It6
The moral, the political and social licence in digitally‐driven family policy and intervention: Parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families6
Implementing Proximate Welfare Programs in Weak Institutional Contexts: Lessons From the Global South6
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Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship6
‘Money anxiety’: Understanding HE students' experiences of the cost‐of‐living crisis6
Crisis as Catalyst: An Inter‐Event Analysis of Social Policy Reforms in East Asia5
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Introduction: 20 years of welfare reform in China (2000–2020): Challenges from developmentalism to COVID‐195
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Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises5
Work and alienation in the platform economy. Amazon and the power of organisation. By SarrahKassem, Bristol University Press. 2023. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN: 97815292265465
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe5
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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 (paper5
Left partisan politics and pension privatisation at the crossroads of political legacy and contemporary politics (1980–2017)5
Program Design to Ease Administrative Burden in Times of Crisis: An Evaluation of Two Emergency Aid Programs in Los Angeles5
Explaining Social Policy Expansion: The Curious Case of the Justin Trudeau Era in Canada5
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Do you know to whom you pay your taxes? The case of decentralised Spain5
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?5
How Do Non‐Standard Work and Labour Market Policy Spending Shape Preferences for Training Versus Unemployment Benefits in Budgetary Trade‐Offs?5
Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £255
A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England: What was it meant to achieve?5
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Social rights in EU and its member states5
Explaining Variation in Decision‐Making Authority for Care Managers in a Decentralised Welfare State4
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Nordic earner‐carer politics: A comparative and historical analysis (1st edition). By Anne LiseEllingsæter, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024. £95 (hardback). ISBN: 97818022070714
Delegated Governance in Segmented Welfare Regimes: How Non‐State Provision Shaped Childcare Policy Outcomes in Mexico4
Constrained ‘choices’: Optional familism and educational divides in work‐family arrangements4
Welfare conditionality and policy contingencies of school‐allowance retractions in Sweden4
Living Wages in Latin America: An Assessment of Disparities and a Stakeholder Roadmap for Action4
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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 4
Managing the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Perceived Risks and Social Policy Preferences Among Firm‐Level Decision Makers4
The ‘two lives’ of Esping‐Andersen and the revival of a research programme: Gender equality, employment and redistribution in contemporary social policy4
Living with financial insecurity: Analysing the impact of the cost‐of‐living crisis on older ethnic minority people4
Emergency welfare states in action: Social policy adaptations to COVID‐19 in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia4
The Perceived Procedural Paradox: Explaining (In)coherence in Attitudes Towards Conditionality and Complexity in the Dutch Welfare State4
Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm4
The Role of Information in the Street‐Level Bureaucrat–Client Relationship: Open‐Book Services and the Case of the Swedish Patient Accessible Electronic Health Record3
Moving Beyond Regulation: Cross‐Sectoral Coordination in Providing Holistic Care in For‐Profit Residential Homes for Disabled People3
The Role of Tax‐Benefit Systems in Reducing the Gender Income Gap in Latin America3
An ‘interface first’ bureaucracy: Interface design, universal credit and the digital welfare state3
Does the unemployment trap still exist? The case of the Italian minimum income scheme3
Control pliers in principal‐agent relations: An investigation of hardship commissions in the German asylum administration3
Social protection and state‐citizen relations: A review of the literature3
Choosing not to choose—Patients' justification of a disengaged choice of primary care provider3
Policy entrepreneurship at the street level: Understanding the effect of the individualNissimCohenCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108818865; £15 (Pbk)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 (hardc3
Intersectionality, agency and take‐up of benefits among families living in poverty3
Addressing hardship and climate change: Citizens' perceptions of costs of living, social inequalities and priorities for policy3
The hidden side of Social Europe: Revealing welfare Euroscepticism through focus group discussions3
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State Legislators' Knowledge About Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy3
Welfare service reforms: Arab minority welfare bureau managers assess the outcomes3
Policy Failure in the Lives of Young Disabled People: In Search of Good Transitions3
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‘It's the kids that suffer’: Exploring how the UK's benefit cap and two‐child limit harm children3
“I never planned for it”—Exploration of expectations about caring for older parents3
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 (3
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Access to Safety Net Programs in the U.S. During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: Barriers and Lessons From a Scoping Review3
The Limits of the Possible: Third Sector Employability Support for Vulnerable Users and the Challenge of Job Quality3
Allowance or service: Public attitudes toward childcare‐related family policies in China3
A path to professional capability: The Career Start Programme in Bulgaria as a strategy to youth development3
Crisis in the UK National Health Service: What does it mean, and what are the consequences?3
Women–state relations: The gendered politics of social protection provisioning in Zambia3
A job trial subsidy for youth: Cheap labour or a screening device?3
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)3
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Short‐term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy3
The culture of education regimes: Efficiency, equality and governance in education and social policy3
The Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on School‐to‐School Transitions. A Study of Lower Secondary School Graduates3
Alternative targeting methods for social assistance programs: Evidence from Tunisia3
Determinants of the Unconditional Basic Income Acceptance Among German Citizens: An Empirical Analysis Based on Innovation Resistance Theory2
A history of the intermediate tier in the English NHS: Centre, region, periphery2
Adequacy and Sustainability of Future Retirement Pensions in the Baltics: Analysis Based on Lithuania2
The Relationship Between Perceptions of Social Service Quality and Subjective Well‐Being2
“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 Encounters2
The multi‐dimensional politics of education policy in the knowledge economy: The case of Italy (1996–2008)2
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. 2
Corporations and the cost of living crisis: Corporate involvement in UK food charity2
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The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective2
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)2
Swedish unions and obligatory complementary income insurance: Securing unemployment benefits in a changing welfare state2
Adaptive social protection in Indonesia: Stress‐testing the effect of a natural disaster on poverty and vulnerability2
Digital Transformation and Public Welfare Services: The Opportunity, the Challenge, and the Wildcard. By John StormPedersen, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025. £80.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐02
The politics of disaggregated family policy: The role of party ideology and women's political representation in governments2
Do carer tasks predict carer employment? Evidence from the Survey of Adult Carers in England2
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
On the effects of active labour market policies among individuals reporting to have severe mental health problems2
Big data and the welfare state. How the information revolution threatens social solidarity. TorbenIversen and PhilippRehm. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN: 2
The world politics of social investment: Volume II. Julian L.Garritzmann (Ed.), SiljaHäusermann (Ed.), BrunoPalier (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. £64 (hardback). ISBN: 9780192
Comparison of Policy Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic. Does It Reproduce the Old Patterns?2
Means‐Tested Welfare Benefits and Subjective Well‐Being Through Time: Does Clients' Life Satisfaction Recover?2
Financing and Provision of Long‐Term Care in Europe: Reflections on Intergenerational Solidarity in Care for Older People2
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Active representation and equal treatment: The influence of bureaucrats' social background on discrimination2
Active stewardship in healthcare: Lessons from China's health policy reforms2
‘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 European Pillar of Social Rights: How strategic agency shaped the European Union's flagship social initiative2
Dealing with drift: Comparing social care reform in the four nations of the UK2
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The Role of Institutional Trust in European Healthcare Evaluations—A Comparison of Absolute and Relative Healthcare Attitudes During the COVID‐19 Pandemic2
The Future of Social Policy (1st Edition). By BentGreve, London: Routledge, 2025. 110 pp. £39.99 (paperback), £145.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐284728‐32
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 pp2
Markets or unions? De‐unionisation and German firms' provision of flexible working‐time policies from 2002 to 20162
Street‐level bureaucrats' discretion between individual and institutional factors: The analysis of the minimum income policy implementation in two Italian regions2
Public Encounters as Venues for Citizen Empowerment: The ‘In‐Between’ in the Belgian Probation Sector2
A Genealogy of ‘Future Orientation’: Re‐Inventing Social Work in an Era of Welfare State Bordering2
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Street‐Level Policymaking: From Local Political Preferences to Welfare Policy Delivery2
Teaching Social Policy: International, Comparative and Global PerspectivesBy ZoëIrving (ed.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023. 240 pp. £90 (hardback) and £23.35 (softback). ISBN: 978‐1‐03530‐200‐01
The EPSR and the Next Generation EU: Heralding a reconfiguration of social protection in South Europe?1
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 (Hardcov1
Disability Employment Policy in Australia: Barriers and Facilitators to Workforce Participation1
In search of a job—But which one? How unemployed people revise their occupational expectations1
Training in the age of liberalization and crisis: Understanding the learning experiences of young Active Labour Market Programme Participants1
Families and the State: A Cross‐Country Comparison of Family Policies in Latin America1
Automatically Prepared? How Frontline Workers Cope in the Face of Automation1
Adapted Physical Activity for Elderly People and National Policies. A Comparative Investigation1
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Public Rights Orientations and Views on Long‐Term Care Options for Children in the Child Protection System: An Analysis of Representative Samples of Adults in California, USA and Norway1
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Are attitudes in employees of public employment service in line with the principles of individual placement and support? A questionnaire‐based survey1
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: 97805203948891
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: 978‐1‐83910‐484‐81
Activation, Work and Well‐Being: Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications1
Robots and immigrants: Who is stealing jobs? By K.Maronitis, D.Pencheva, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2022. pp. 156. £26.99. ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐1271‐61
The Elgar companion to gender and global migration: Beyond Western research. By NataliaRibas‐Mateos, SaskiaSassen (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2022. ISBN: 978‐1‐80220‐125‐3; hardback1
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
Social security or insecurity? The experience of welfare participation by financially vulnerable households in the Netherlands1
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: 978‐14473663861
How Public Participation Depends on What Happens ‘In‐Between’. Analysing Emotion, Memory and Meaning in Participatory Policies1
Generation rent on the housing treadmill: A study on South Korea's housing allowance programmes and recurring precarity1
Crowded‐out? Changes in informal childcare during the expansion of formal services in Germany1
Who deserves what and why during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Applying the CARIN principles of deservingness to the American welfare state1
Education as a tool of social equality?1
Conflictual and consensual class relations in collective governance: Comparing the expansion of short apprenticeships in Germany and Switzerland1
Exploring the practical relevance of food aid rationales in Belgium: Lessons from applying in‐kind transfer valuation methods1
Developing a novel inclusive policy analysis framework based on capability approach and institutional analysis and development method1
Classifying participatory methods in social care regulation1
The NHS at 75: Many unhappy returns?1
Which employers have refugee employees—And which do not? Employer typologies developed through hierarchical cluster analyses1
No welfare without workfare? Revisiting varieties of minimum income schemes in Europe (2008–2022)1
Variations in Social Europe? National political parties' positions on EU‐level social regulations1
Once again: Are welfare states in crisis?1
Buying and selling the poor: Inside Australia's privatised welfare‐to‐work marketSiobhanO'Sullivan, MichaelMcGann, MarkConsidineSydney University Press, Sydney (2021). ISBN: 97817433278691
Service Accessibility in Prisons Under New Public Management: Incarcerated Women's Perspectives and Responses1
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: 9783031009251
Social policy, political economy and the social contract. JonathanWistow, Policy Press. 2022. £24.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐14473526171
Ball, S. (2022). Behavioural public policy in Australia: How an idea became practice. London/New York: Routledge ISBN: 9781032269719; £130.001
Book review: Working class experiences of social inequalities in (post‐) industrial landscapes feelings of class, by LarsMeierRoutledge, 2021. ISBN: 9780429458408; £27.74 (EPub)1
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The implementation of social protection in a conservative African welfare regime: The values and beliefs of local state officials in Botswana1
Towards Social Europe? Obstacles and opportunities in the multi‐level governance of welfare states1
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Changes in Social Assistance Policies and Subjective Well‐Being: Lessons From Kazakhstan1
Public understandings of welfare and the economy: Who knows what and does it relate to political attitudes?1
Correction to: Education and ignorance in the UK 80 years after Beveridge: The role of government and equality of opportunity1
Social policy in a political vacuum: Women's experiences of hunger during the Cost‐of‐Living Crisis in Northern Ireland1
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“You've Got a Lot to Prove”: A Mixed Methods Analysis of How Older Adults and Their Families Navigate Medicaid Enrollment1
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 Crisis1
Measuring and Harmonising Coverage, Generosity and History of Work‐Injury Policies Globally1
Women's management in local government: The effects of substantive representation on welfare service efficiency1
Knowledge, skills or social mobility? Citizens' perceptions of the purpose of education1
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Whatever happened to the Child Trust Fund? The abandonment of universal savings for UK children1
Effects of organisational factors and employee characteristics on employers' reporting of client violence in non‐institutional social services in Sweden1
The next UK welfare state? UK welfare after COVID‐19, by ChristopherPierson, Bristol: Policy Press, 2021, 162 pages1
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