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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Perceptions of Poverty and Policy Preferences: The Contribution of Q Methodology	47
Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2022	41
Exploring the Disciplinary State: The Pace and Pattern of ‘Getting Tough’ in Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom Since 1990	32
Reforming Long‐Term Care Provision and Work in Post‐Pandemic Times: Scope and Drivers of Policy Change in the Spanish Decentralised System	29
Digital First? Understanding Citizens' Communication Needs in Digital Public Encounters	25
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	24
Introduction: The Dynamics of Migration Policy Implementation: The Frontline and Beyond	24
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),	24
Public Encounters: Advancing the Study and Practice of Citizen‐State Relationships	21
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	19
Governing Personal Assistance in Three East Asian Countries: Policy Choices and the Experiences of Disabled People	19
To Politicise or to Depoliticise, That Is the Question! On Public Encounters in Deliberative Processes	19
Street‐Level Bureaucrats Manufacturing Migrants: An Implementation Study of Policy Measures to Address Statelessness in the Dominican Republic	17
Fertility‐based employment discrimination and family policy: Evidence from a field experiment	17
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Understanding migrants' attitudes towards state pension: The role of length of stay and settlement intention	17
User‐Centred Design in Child Welfare: Importance of an Anti‐Racism Lens	16
Divergent Institutional Logics—Implementing Supported Employment in Hybrid Contexts of Danish Public Employment Services	16
The politics of social policies in Portugal: Different responses in times of crises	16
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Upskilling as integration policy: Making the most of refugees' human capital in a context of skill shortage	15
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?	15
Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states	14
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	14
Organising Changes: The Institutional Work Behind the Implementation of a Minimum Income Scheme	14

Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?	13
Looking beyond the workplace: Trade unions and the politics of poverty in Italy	13
Handbook on social protection systemsby EstherSchüring, MarkusLoewe (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. ISBN: 9781839109102; £375.00 (Hardback)	13
Verification of policy information and citizen attitudes toward government under COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from survey experiment in South Korea	12
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea	12
Social investment, labour market participation and public debt sustainability: An empirical analysis of European countries	11
Beyond Formal Coverage: The True Reach of Family Policies in Latin America	11
Welfare state regimes and social policy resistance to fiscal consolidations	11
How Stakes Vary and Influence Crisis Decision‐Making: Evidence From Local Government Managers During COVID ‐19	11
Food insecurity: The resilient, but “silent poverty” perspectives of older ethnic minority individuals within UK communities	11
Spatiality of Service Delivery in the Covid19 Pandemic: Transcending Spatial Boundaries or Accommodating Logistical Challenges?	11
Social policy: A critical and intersectional analysis By Fiona WilliamsMickCarpenterPolicy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781509540396; £18.99 (pbk)	10
Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study	10
Screening for Asylum at Airports: The Implementation of the ‘Manifestly Unfounded’ Filter in France and Germany, 1980–2005	10
Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom : Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable?	10
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme	10
The Wage Stop and Restricting Benefit Income in the United Kingdom: Discretion, Wages and Hardship	10
Coerced Volunteering: Provision of Frontline Social Services During Emergencies	9
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia	9
The impact of universal credit rollout on homelessness assistance need in Scottish local authorities	9
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation	9
The industrialisation thesis, revisited: Understanding welfare expansion in China through social expenditure data (2000–2019)	9
COVID ‐19 Pandemic: A Catalyst for More Comprehensive Unemployment Benefits for the Self‐Employed in Scandinavia?	9
How to Fix the Welfare State? Some Ideas for Better Social Services. By PaulSpicker, Policy Press, 2022, 162pp. £27.99	9
“You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims	9
National health services of Western Europe: Challenges, reforms and future perspectives. By GuidoGiarelli, MikeSaks (Eds.), London: Routledge. 2024. £130.00; hardback. ISBN: 9780367689599	9
Navigating the Tension Lines of Value Co‐Creation: Frontline Care Staff's Experiences With Residential Transition Processes for Service Users in Co‐Located Supported Housing	8
European Union Youth Policy: Moving Beyond Mobility	8
The Use and Impact of Well‐Being Metrics on Policymaking: Developers' and Users' Perspectives in Scotland and Italy	8
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Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland	8
National charitable fundraising for the NHS, 1948–2023	8
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TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states	8
To Comply or Not to Comply, That Is the Question: The Street‐Level Implementation of Jurisprudence by Migration Officers	7
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Welfare Conditionality as Administrative Burden: The Perceived Costs of (Potential) Sanctions and How Welfare Claimants Cope With It	7
The Discretionary Power of Street‐Level Bureaucrats From the Perspective of Illusio	7
The Making of a Left‐Behind Class Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation. by FredPowell, MargaretScanlon, PatrickLeahy, HilaryJenkinson and	7
Christopher Deeming. Minimum income standards and reference budgets, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐5295‐2; pp 351	7
Improving the Likelihood of Positive Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Considering Intersections Between Justice, Gender, and Trauma	7
The Politics of Social Care in Japan: How Central–Local Interactions Shaped Child Allowances and Elderly Medical Care	7
The moral, the political and social licence in digitally‐driven family policy and intervention: Parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families	6
Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship	6
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Explaining Social Policy Expansion: The Curious Case of the Justin Trudeau Era in Canada	6
Implementing Proximate Welfare Programs in Weak Institutional Contexts: Lessons From the Global South	6
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‘Money anxiety’: Understanding HE students' experiences of the cost‐of‐living crisis	6
Left partisan politics and pension privatisation at the crossroads of political legacy and contemporary politics (1980–2017)	6

The Language of Public Encounters: Computational Measures of Complexity and Emotionality in Spoken Bureaucratic Communication	6
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Introduction: 20 years of welfare reform in China (2000–2020): Challenges from developmentalism to COVID‐19	6
Crisis as Catalyst: An Inter‐Event Analysis of Social Policy Reforms in East Asia	5
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe	5
A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England: What was it meant to achieve?	5
Work and alienation in the platform economy. Amazon and the power of organisation. By SarrahKassem, Bristol University Press. 2023. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781529226546	5
Doing Ethics Work in Digitalised Welfare: How Discretion and Judgement Are Reconfigured in Everyday Practice	5
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Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	5
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Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £25	5
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Do you know to whom you pay your taxes? The case of decentralised Spain	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
Program Design to Ease Administrative Burden in Times of Crisis: An Evaluation of Two Emergency Aid Programs in Los Angeles	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
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises	5
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Social rights in EU and its member states	5
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Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	4
Constrained ‘choices’: Optional familism and educational divides in work‐family arrangements	4
Explaining Variation in Decision‐Making Authority for Care Managers in a Decentralised Welfare State	4
Living Wages in Latin America: An Assessment of Disparities and a Stakeholder Roadmap for Action	4
Crisis in the UK National Health Service: What does it mean, and what are the consequences?	4
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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
The Perceived Procedural Paradox: Explaining (In)coherence in Attitudes Towards Conditionality and Complexity in the Dutch Welfare State	4
Delegated Governance in Segmented Welfare Regimes: How Non‐State Provision Shaped Childcare Policy Outcomes in Mexico	4
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
The ‘two lives’ of Esping‐Andersen and the revival of a research programme: Gender equality, employment and redistribution in contemporary social policy	4
Welfare conditionality and policy contingencies of school‐allowance retractions in Sweden	4
Managing the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Perceived Risks and Social Policy Preferences Among Firm‐Level Decision Makers	4
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Welfare service reforms: Arab minority welfare bureau managers assess the outcomes	4
Nordic earner‐carer politics: A comparative and historical analysis (1st edition). By Anne LiseEllingsæter, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024. £95 (hardback). ISBN: 9781802207071	4
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Intersectionality, agency and take‐up of benefits among families living in poverty	3
The culture of education regimes: Efficiency, equality and governance in education and social policy	3
Policy Failure in the Lives of Young Disabled People: In Search of Good Transitions	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
The Role of Information in the Street‐Level Bureaucrat–Client Relationship: Open‐Book Services and the Case of the Swedish Patient Accessible Electronic Health Record	3
The Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on School‐to‐School Transitions. A Study of Lower Secondary School Graduates	3
Addressing hardship and climate change: Citizens' perceptions of costs of living, social inequalities and priorities for policy	3
Does the unemployment trap still exist? The case of the Italian minimum income scheme	3
An ‘interface first’ bureaucracy: Interface design, universal credit and the digital welfare state	3
A history of the intermediate tier in the English NHS: Centre, region, periphery	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
Choosing not to choose—Patients' justification of a disengaged choice of primary care provider	3
Short‐term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy	3
The hidden side of Social Europe: Revealing welfare Euroscepticism through focus group discussions	3
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A path to professional capability: The Career Start Programme in Bulgaria as a strategy to youth development	3
State Legislators' Knowledge About Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy	3
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
Control pliers in principal‐agent relations: An investigation of hardship commissions in the German asylum administration	3
‘It's the kids that suffer’: Exploring how the UK's benefit cap and two‐child limit harm children	3
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“I never planned for it”—Exploration of expectations about caring for older parents	3
Social protection and state‐citizen relations: A review of the literature	3
A job trial subsidy for youth: Cheap labour or a screening device?	3
The Limits of the Possible: Third Sector Employability Support for Vulnerable Users and the Challenge of Job Quality	3
Allowance or service: Public attitudes toward childcare‐related family policies in China	3
Moving Beyond Regulation: Cross‐Sectoral Coordination in Providing Holistic Care in For‐Profit Residential Homes for Disabled People	3
The Role of Tax‐Benefit Systems in Reducing the Gender Income Gap in Latin America	3
Women–state relations: The gendered politics of social protection provisioning in Zambia	3
Access to Safety Net Programs in the U.S. During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: Barriers and Lessons From a Scoping Review	3
Alternative targeting methods for social assistance programs: Evidence from Tunisia	3