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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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Perceptions of Poverty and Policy Preferences: The Contribution of Q Methodology	45
Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2022	39
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	28
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	23
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
Introduction: The Dynamics of Migration Policy Implementation: The Frontline and Beyond	22
Public Encounters: Advancing the Study and Practice of Citizen‐State Relationships	21
Divergent Institutional Logics—Implementing Supported Employment in Hybrid Contexts of Danish Public Employment Services	18
Governing Personal Assistance in Three East Asian Countries: Policy Choices and the Experiences of Disabled People	18
To Politicise or to Depoliticise, That Is the Question! On Public Encounters in Deliberative Processes	18
Street‐Level Bureaucrats Manufacturing Migrants: An Implementation Study of Policy Measures to Address Statelessness in the Dominican Republic	17
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Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	17
The politics of social policies in Portugal: Different responses in times of crises	17
Understanding migrants' attitudes towards state pension: The role of length of stay and settlement intention	16
User‐Centred Design in Child Welfare: Importance of an Anti‐Racism Lens	15
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Fertility‐based employment discrimination and family policy: Evidence from a field experiment	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?	14
Organising Changes: The Institutional Work Behind the Implementation of a Minimum Income Scheme	14
Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states	14
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

Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	13
Beyond Formal Coverage: The True Reach of Family Policies in Latin America	12
How Stakes Vary and Influence Crisis Decision‐Making: Evidence From Local Government Managers During COVID ‐19	12
Upskilling as integration policy: Making the most of refugees' human capital in a context of skill shortage	11
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme	11
Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?	11
Social investment, labour market participation and public debt sustainability: An empirical analysis of European countries	11
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea	11
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 communities	11
Verification of policy information and citizen attitudes toward government under COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from survey experiment in South Korea	11
Welfare state regimes and social policy resistance to fiscal consolidations	10
The Wage Stop and Restricting Benefit Income in the United Kingdom: Discretion, Wages and Hardship	10
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, 1980–2005	10
National charitable fundraising for the NHS, 1948–2023	9
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation	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	9
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia	9
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 states	9
“You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims	9
Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study	9
How to Fix the Welfare State? Some Ideas for Better Social Services. By PaulSpicker, Policy Press, 2022, 162pp. £27.99	8
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 recession	8
The Use and Impact of Well‐Being Metrics on Policymaking: Developers' and Users' Perspectives in Scotland and Italy	8
The impact of universal credit rollout on homelessness assistance need in Scottish local authorities	8
National health services of Western Europe: Challenges, reforms and future perspectives. By GuidoGiarelli, MikeSaks (Eds.), London: Routledge. 2024. £130.00; hardback. ISBN: 9780367689599	8
Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland	8
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To Comply or Not to Comply, That Is the Question: The Street‐Level Implementation of Jurisprudence by Migration Officers	7
Christopher Deeming. Minimum income standards and reference budgets, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐5295‐2; pp 351	7
The Making of a Left‐Behind Class Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation. by FredPowell, MargaretScanlon, PatrickLeahy, HilaryJenkinson and	7
European Union Youth Policy: Moving Beyond Mobility	7
The Discretionary Power of Street‐Level Bureaucrats From the Perspective of Illusio	7
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Improving the Likelihood of Positive Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Considering Intersections Between Justice, Gender, and Trauma	7
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Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship	6
‘Money anxiety’: Understanding HE students' experiences of the cost‐of‐living crisis	6
The Language of Public Encounters: Computational Measures of Complexity and Emotionality in Spoken Bureaucratic Communication	6
The Politics of Social Care in Japan: How Central–Local Interactions Shaped Child Allowances and Elderly Medical Care	6
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Welfare Conditionality as Administrative Burden: The Perceived Costs of (Potential) Sanctions and How Welfare Claimants Cope With It	6
The moral, the political and social licence in digitally‐driven family policy and intervention: Parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families	6

Implementing Proximate Welfare Programs in Weak Institutional Contexts: Lessons From the Global South	6
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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Do you know to whom you pay your taxes? The case of decentralised Spain	5
Crisis as Catalyst: An Inter‐Event Analysis of Social Policy Reforms in East Asia	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
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 states	5
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Left partisan politics and pension privatisation at the crossroads of political legacy and contemporary politics (1980–2017)	5
Explaining Social Policy Expansion: The Curious Case of the Justin Trudeau Era in Canada	5
Introduction: 20 years of welfare reform in China (2000–2020): Challenges from developmentalism to COVID‐19	5
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises	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
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe	5
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	5
Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £25	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
Explaining Variation in Decision‐Making Authority for Care Managers in a Decentralised Welfare State	4
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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: 9781802207071	4
Delegated Governance in Segmented Welfare Regimes: How Non‐State Provision Shaped Childcare Policy Outcomes in Mexico	4
Constrained ‘choices’: Optional familism and educational divides in work‐family arrangements	4
Welfare conditionality and policy contingencies of school‐allowance retractions in Sweden	4
Living Wages in Latin America: An Assessment of Disparities and a Stakeholder Roadmap for Action	4
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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 Makers	4
The ‘two lives’ of Esping‐Andersen and the revival of a research programme: Gender equality, employment and redistribution in contemporary social policy	4
Living with financial insecurity: Analysing the impact of the cost‐of‐living crisis on older ethnic minority people	4
Emergency welfare states in action: Social policy adaptations to COVID‐19 in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	4
The Perceived Procedural Paradox: Explaining (In)coherence in Attitudes Towards Conditionality and Complexity in the Dutch Welfare State	4
Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	4
The culture of education regimes: Efficiency, equality and governance in education and social policy	3
Alternative targeting methods for social assistance programs: Evidence from Tunisia	3
The Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on School‐to‐School Transitions. A Study of Lower Secondary School Graduates	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
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
An ‘interface first’ bureaucracy: Interface design, universal credit and the digital welfare state	3
Does the unemployment trap still exist? The case of the Italian minimum income scheme	3
Control pliers in principal‐agent relations: An investigation of hardship commissions in the German asylum administration	3
Social protection and state‐citizen relations: A review of the literature	3
Choosing not to choose—Patients' justification of a disengaged choice of primary care provider	3
Policy entrepreneurship at the street level: Understanding the effect of the individualNissimCohenCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108818865; £15 (Pbk)	3
Intersectionality, agency and take‐up of benefits among families living in poverty	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 hidden side of Social Europe: Revealing welfare Euroscepticism through focus group discussions	3
Addressing hardship and climate change: Citizens' perceptions of costs of living, social inequalities and priorities for policy	3
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State Legislators' Knowledge About Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy	3
Welfare service reforms: Arab minority welfare bureau managers assess the outcomes	3
Policy Failure in the Lives of Young Disabled People: In Search of Good Transitions	3
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‘It's the kids that suffer’: Exploring how the UK's benefit cap and two‐child limit harm children	3
“I never planned for it”—Exploration of expectations about caring for older parents	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
Access to Safety Net Programs in the U.S. During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic: Barriers and Lessons From a Scoping Review	3
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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
A path to professional capability: The Career Start Programme in Bulgaria as a strategy to youth development	3
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 Zambia	3
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 policy	3