Critical Social Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Social Policy is 2. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: The Marketisation of Welfare to Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street Level by Michael McGann22
The multiple and competing functions of local reviews of serious child abuse cases in England20
Book Review: Thinking Collectively. Social Policy, Collective Action and the Common Good by Paul Spicker16
Book Review: Engaging with Social Work: A Critical Introduction by Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett and Selma Macfarlane16
Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales13
Banishment12
COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security: Re-setting debate12
Building power from below: Dispatches and lessons from movement building in a postindustrial city in Northern New Jersey in the United States12
Book Review: The Next Welfare State? UK Welfare After COVID-19 by Christopher Pierson11
Book Review: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Social Resistance by Masoud Kamali11
Book Review: Somo Sisters Tapestry: A Tale of Cultural Change, Shocks and Life in the UK by 12 Women by WODIN, with an introduction by Julie Sylvia Kalungi10
Book Review: Agents of Reform. Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State by Elisabeth Anderson9
Book Review: Substances, Welfare and Social Relations: Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope by Amber Gazso8
Framing Community Sponsorship in the context of the UK’s hostile environment8
Hegemony and settler colonial subjectivities: The censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)8
Book Review: A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand by Ian Kelvin Hyslop8
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality8
It Shouldn't Happen Here: Colonial and racial discourses of deservingness in UK anti-poverty campaign7
Book Review: Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services by Rich Moth7
Engineering the filial self. Negotiating the moral construction of filial piety at different government levels in China7
Book Review: Working Across Difference: Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice by Donna Baines, Bindi Bennett, Susan Goodwin and Margot Rawsthorne6
Book Review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch6
Government through clanship: Governing Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists through a community-based social protection programme5
Book Review: Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risk and Harms by Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie Huegler and Delphine Peace5
The (un)just transition in ecomodernist climate policy: Critical analysis of social inequities in the US Inflation Reduction Act5
Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation?5
Social solidarity and deservingness5
Book Review: The Impact of Community Work: How to Gather Evidence by Karen McArdle, Sue Briggs, Kirsty Forrester, Ed Garrett and Catherine McKay4
‘The Left will find that it has bought a Trojan Horse’: The dialectics of universal basic income4
United Nations Policy on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Problematizations and Performances4
Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration4
Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour4
Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler4
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention, Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie3
Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies3
Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice3
Credibility contests: The contributions of experiential knowledge to radicalisation expertise3
De-bordering and re-bordering practices at the intersection of gender and migration. A multi-site exploration of specialized services for migrant women experiencing violence in Italy and Sweden3
Book Review: Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu3
Responsibilising young benefit recipients: Income management and financial capability in New Zealand2
Book Review: It’s Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate by John Bissett2
Book Review: The Criminalisation of Social Policy in Neoliberal Societies by Elizabeth Kiely and Katharina Swirak2
Book Review: Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic by Paul Michael Garrett2
Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy2
Book Review: The Invention of the ‘Underclass’: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge by Loïc Wacquant2
Risks and representations: Creating consensus narratives about risk with pregnant women involved with child protection systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland2
Attacking transnationalism and citizenship: British Bangladeshis, family migration, and the postcolonial state2
Eviscerating equality: Normative whiteness and Conservative equality policy2
Regulating domestic and care work in Italy: Assessing the relative influence of the familistic model today2
What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire2
Book Review: Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain by Maddy Power2
Understanding the interplay of financial change, debt, and lone parenthood in the UK: A secondary mixed methods analysis2
Migrant women becoming ‘stronger together’ through the arts: Creating Ground2
Book Review: Social Work with the Black African Diaspora by Washington Marovatsanga and Paul Michael Garrett2
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