OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy & Administration is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How does immigration affect welfare support in Korea?	75
Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2022	32
The ‘New Five Giants’—Conceptualising the challenges facing societal progress in the 21st century	27
Reforming Long‐Term Care Provision and Work in Post‐Pandemic Times: Scope and Drivers of Policy Change in the Spanish Decentralised System	26
Perceptions of Poverty and Policy Preferences: The Contribution of Q Methodology	23
Exploring the Disciplinary State: The Pace and Pattern of ‘Getting Tough’ in Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom Since 1990	22
Governing Personal Assistance in Three East Asian Countries: Policy Choices and the Experiences of Disabled People	20
Understanding migrants' attitudes towards state pension: The role of length of stay and settlement intention	20
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	20
Beveridge, Bevan and institutional change in the UK welfare state	19
Fertility‐based employment discrimination and family policy: Evidence from a field experiment	19
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),	18
Introduction: The Dynamics of Migration Policy Implementation: The Frontline and Beyond	17
The politics of social policies in Portugal: Different responses in times of crises	16
User‐Centred Design in Child Welfare: Importance of an Anti‐Racism Lens	16
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	16
Street‐Level Bureaucrats Manufacturing Migrants: An Implementation Study of Policy Measures to Address Statelessness in the Dominican Republic	15
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	13
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	13
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?	13
Social investment, labour market participation and public debt sustainability: An empirical analysis of European countries	13
Spatiality of Service Delivery in the Covid19 Pandemic: Transcending Spatial Boundaries or Accommodating Logistical Challenges?	13
Verification of policy information and citizen attitudes toward government under COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from survey experiment in South Korea	12
Social security, full employment and voluntary action: The three pillars of William Beveridge's welfare society	12

Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states	12
Handbook on social protection systemsby EstherSchüring, MarkusLoewe (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. ISBN: 9781839109102; £375.00 (Hardback)	12
Beyond Formal Coverage: The True Reach of Family Policies in Latin America	11
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme	11
Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?	11
Looking beyond the workplace: Trade unions and the politics of poverty in Italy	11
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea	11
Upskilling as integration policy: Making the most of refugees' human capital in a context of skill shortage	11
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation	10
Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform	10
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Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state	9
The industrialisation thesis, revisited: Understanding welfare expansion in China through social expenditure data (2000–2019)	9
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia	9
Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study	9
Social policy: A critical and intersectional analysis By Fiona WilliamsMickCarpenterPolicy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781509540396; £18.99 (pbk)	9
Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom: Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable?	8
“You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims	8
Screening for Asylum at Airports: The Implementation of the ‘Manifestly Unfounded’ Filter in France and Germany, 1980–2005	8
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TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states	7
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The Wage Stop and Restricting Benefit Income in the United Kingdom: Discretion, Wages and Hardship	7
The impact of universal credit rollout on homelessness assistance need in Scottish local authorities	6
Improving the Likelihood of Positive Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Considering Intersections Between Justice, Gender, and Trauma	6
National charitable fundraising for the NHS, 1948–2023	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
The Use and Impact of Well‐Being Metrics on Policymaking: Developers' and Users' Perspectives in Scotland and Italy	6
The Discretionary Power of Street‐Level Bureaucrats From the Perspective of Illusio	6
How to Fix the Welfare State? Some Ideas for Better Social Services. By PaulSpicker, Policy Press, 2022, 162pp. £27.99	6
To Comply or Not to Comply, That Is the Question: The Street‐Level Implementation of Jurisprudence by Migration Officers	6
Protected against all odds? A mixed‐methods study on the risk of welfare sanctions for immigrants in Germany	5
The Making of a Left‐Behind Class Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation. by FredPowell, MargaretScanlon, PatrickLeahy, HilaryJenkinson and	5
The moral, the political and social licence in digitally‐driven family policy and intervention: Parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families	5
Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship	5
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Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland	5
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‘Money anxiety’: Understanding HE students' experiences of the cost‐of‐living crisis	5
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Left partisan politics and pension privatisation at the crossroads of political legacy and contemporary politics (1980–2017)	5
Beyond financial constraints: The politics of Irish health system reform in the aftermath of the great recession	5
Introduction: 20 years of welfare reform in China (2000–2020): Challenges from developmentalism to COVID‐19	5
Christopher Deeming. Minimum income standards and reference budgets, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐5295‐2; pp 351	5
Moral framings in the Australian parliamentary debate on drug testing of welfare recipients	5
The Beveridge report 80 years on: ‘Squalor’ and housing—‘A true goliath’	5
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Emergency welfare states in action: Social policy adaptations to COVID‐19 in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	4
Living with financial insecurity: Analysing the impact of the cost‐of‐living crisis on older ethnic minority people	4

Care earnings in the United States and 24 European countries: The role of social policy and labour market institutions	4
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises	4
How Do Non‐Standard Work and Labour Market Policy Spending Shape Preferences for Training Versus Unemployment Benefits in Budgetary Trade‐Offs?	4
Implementing Proximate Welfare Programs in Weak Institutional Contexts: Lessons From the Global South	4
Constrained ‘choices’: Optional familism and educational divides in work‐family arrangements	4
Do you know to whom you pay your taxes? The case of decentralised Spain	4
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe	4
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A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England: What was it meant to achieve?	4
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Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £25	4
Program Design to Ease Administrative Burden in Times of Crisis: An Evaluation of Two Emergency Aid Programs in Los Angeles	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
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Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	4
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	4
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The ‘two lives’ of Esping‐Andersen and the revival of a research programme: Gender equality, employment and redistribution in contemporary social policy	3
Framing Beveridge	3
Managing the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Perceived Risks and Social Policy Preferences Among Firm‐Level Decision Makers	3
Welfare service reforms: Arab minority welfare bureau managers assess the outcomes	3
Addressing hardship and climate change: Citizens' perceptions of costs of living, social inequalities and priorities for policy	3
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
A path to professional capability: The Career Start Programme in Bulgaria as a strategy to youth development	3
Explaining Variation in Decision‐Making Authority for Care Managers in a Decentralised Welfare State	3
Social rights in EU and its member states	3
Welfare conditionality and policy contingencies of school‐allowance retractions in Sweden	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
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
Women–state relations: The gendered politics of social protection provisioning in Zambia	3
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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
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Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	3
Crisis in the UK National Health Service: What does it mean, and what are the consequences?	3
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The Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on School‐to‐School Transitions. A Study of Lower Secondary School Graduates	3
Allowance or service: Public attitudes toward childcare‐related family policies in China	3
Alternative targeting methods for social assistance programs: Evidence from Tunisia	3