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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2022	33
Reforming Long‐Term Care Provision and Work in Post‐Pandemic Times: Scope and Drivers of Policy Change in the Spanish Decentralised System	27
Exploring the Disciplinary State: The Pace and Pattern of ‘Getting Tough’ in Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom Since 1990	26
Perceptions of Poverty and Policy Preferences: The Contribution of Q Methodology	25
Fertility‐based employment discrimination and family policy: Evidence from a field experiment	22
Governing Personal Assistance in Three East Asian Countries: Policy Choices and the Experiences of Disabled People	22
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	21
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
Street‐Level Bureaucrats Manufacturing Migrants: An Implementation Study of Policy Measures to Address Statelessness in the Dominican Republic	19
The politics of social policies in Portugal: Different responses in times of crises	19
Introduction: The Dynamics of Migration Policy Implementation: The Frontline and Beyond	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
Understanding migrants' attitudes towards state pension: The role of length of stay and settlement intention	18
User‐Centred Design in Child Welfare: Importance of an Anti‐Racism Lens	17
Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?	16
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Beyond Formal Coverage: The True Reach of Family Policies in Latin America	15
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea	14
Food insecurity: The resilient, but “silent poverty” perspectives of older ethnic minority individuals within UK communities	14
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	13
Social security, full employment and voluntary action: The three pillars of William Beveridge's welfare society	13
Spatiality of Service Delivery in the Covid19 Pandemic: Transcending Spatial Boundaries or Accommodating Logistical Challenges?	13
Handbook on social protection systemsby EstherSchüring, MarkusLoewe (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. ISBN: 9781839109102; £375.00 (Hardback)	13
Social investment, labour market participation and public debt sustainability: An empirical analysis of European countries	13
Verification of policy information and citizen attitudes toward government under COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from survey experiment in South Korea	12

Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states	12
Welfare state regimes and social policy resistance to fiscal consolidations	11
Upskilling as integration policy: Making the most of refugees' human capital in a context of skill shortage	11
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?	11
Looking beyond the workplace: Trade unions and the politics of poverty in Italy	11
Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study	10
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme	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
Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state	10
The Wage Stop and Restricting Benefit Income in the United Kingdom: Discretion, Wages and Hardship	9
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia	9
Screening for Asylum at Airports: The Implementation of the ‘Manifestly Unfounded’ Filter in France and Germany, 1980–2005	9
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Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform	9
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“You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims	8
Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom: Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable?	8
TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states	7
Improving the Likelihood of Positive Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Considering Intersections Between Justice, Gender, and Trauma	7
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation	7
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
To Comply or Not to Comply, That Is the Question: The Street‐Level Implementation of Jurisprudence by Migration Officers	6
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How to Fix the Welfare State? Some Ideas for Better Social Services. By PaulSpicker, Policy Press, 2022, 162pp. £27.99	6
Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland	6
The Discretionary Power of Street‐Level Bureaucrats From the Perspective of Illusio	6
The impact of universal credit rollout on homelessness assistance need in Scottish local authorities	6
Protected against all odds? A mixed‐methods study on the risk of welfare sanctions for immigrants in Germany	6
Beyond financial constraints: The politics of Irish health system reform in the aftermath of the great recession	6
The Use and Impact of Well‐Being Metrics on Policymaking: Developers' and Users' Perspectives in Scotland and Italy	5
Left partisan politics and pension privatisation at the crossroads of political legacy and contemporary politics (1980–2017)	5
‘Money anxiety’: Understanding HE students' experiences of the cost‐of‐living crisis	5
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Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £25	5
Moral framings in the Australian parliamentary debate on drug testing of welfare recipients	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
Implementing Proximate Welfare Programs in Weak Institutional Contexts: Lessons From the Global South	5
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Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship	5
Introduction: 20 years of welfare reform in China (2000–2020): Challenges from developmentalism to COVID‐19	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
Christopher Deeming. Minimum income standards and reference budgets, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐5295‐2; pp 351	5
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe	5
Welfare conditionality and policy contingencies of school‐allowance retractions in Sweden	4

Program Design to Ease Administrative Burden in Times of Crisis: An Evaluation of Two Emergency Aid Programs in Los Angeles	4
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	4
A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England: What was it meant to achieve?	4
How Do Non‐Standard Work and Labour Market Policy Spending Shape Preferences for Training Versus Unemployment Benefits in Budgetary Trade‐Offs?	4
Do you know to whom you pay your taxes? The case of decentralised Spain	4
Social rights in EU and its member states	4
Constrained ‘choices’: Optional familism and educational divides in work‐family arrangements	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
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
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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Managing the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Perceived Risks and Social Policy Preferences Among Firm‐Level Decision Makers	4
Explaining Variation in Decision‐Making Authority for Care Managers in a Decentralised Welfare State	4
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Welfare service reforms: Arab minority welfare bureau managers assess the outcomes	3
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The Role of Tax‐Benefit Systems in Reducing the Gender Income Gap in Latin America	3
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Allowance or service: Public attitudes toward childcare‐related family policies in China	3
The Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on School‐to‐School Transitions. A Study of Lower Secondary School Graduates	3
Delegated Governance in Segmented Welfare Regimes: How Non‐State Provision Shaped Childcare Policy Outcomes in Mexico	3
Living Wages in Latin America: An Assessment of Disparities and a Stakeholder Roadmap for Action	3
The ‘two lives’ of Esping‐Andersen and the revival of a research programme: Gender equality, employment and redistribution in contemporary social policy	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
Crisis in the UK National Health Service: What does it mean, and what are the consequences?	3
Addressing hardship and climate change: Citizens' perceptions of costs of living, social inequalities and priorities for policy	3
The Limits of the Possible: Third Sector Employability Support for Vulnerable Users and the Challenge of Job Quality	3
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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
A path to professional capability: The Career Start Programme in Bulgaria as a strategy to youth development	3
Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	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
Women–state relations: The gendered politics of social protection provisioning in Zambia	3
Moving Beyond Regulation: Cross‐Sectoral Coordination in Providing Holistic Care in For‐Profit Residential Homes for Disabled People	3