Social Policy and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Policy and Society is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Housing and Papering Over the Cracks of the Welfare State: Exploring the Role and Impact of Technology as Part of Housing Service Provision in an Era of Multi-level Precarity54
Framing and Shaming: The 2017 Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All Campaign46
Introduction: ‘Race’, Learning and Teaching in Social Policy in Higher Education42
Some Useful Sources32
The Green Agenda: Why the Provision and Development of Gypsy/Traveller Sites in Scotland is a Health Hazard as Much as an Accommodation Priority31
Ideas and Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia25
Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan22
Tailored and Seamless: Individualised Budgets and the Dual Forces of Personalisation and Collaboration21
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project19
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM19
Homelessness Transitions, Risks, and Prevention Across the Life Course18
Some Useful Sources18
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea16
You Are Safe Here: Community Sponsorship Policy and Refugee Integration in the UK16
Some Useful Sources15
Interactions between Child Labour and Schooling: Parental Perceptions in Rural and Urban Ghana12
Introduction: Mapping the Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities12
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Sociology: A Critical Analysis of the Conceptual, the Methodological and the Institutional11
Two Scenarios for Sustainable Welfare: A Framework for an Eco-Social Contract10
Co-creating Value in the Scandinavian Welfare System: Matching Elderly Care in a Major Swedish Municipality9
Employment Inequalities Among British Minority Ethnic Workers in Health and Social Care at the Time of Covid-19: A Rapid Review of the Literature9
Does China Need a Carers’ Policy? A Reflection Based on the Caregiving Experience of Older Carers9
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future9
The Moderating Role of Corruption-Nexus Between Active Labor Market Policies and Unemployment in OECD Countries8
Fluid Enquiry, Complex Causality, Policy Processes: Making a Difference with Qualitative Longitudinal Research8
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion8
What Is Out There and What Can We Learn? International Evidence on Funding and Delivery of Long-Term Care8
Understanding Disability Policy Development: Integrating Social Policy Research with the Disability Studies Perspective7
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A Conceptual Framework to Map Responses to Hate Crime, Hate Incidents and Hate Speech: The Case of Australia7
“I Was Trusted for Once”: Imagining More Humane Income Supports Through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot7
More than a Free Lunch: A Content Analysis of the Controversies Surrounding Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter7
Informal Care Provision and the Reduction of Economic Activity Among Mid-Life Carers in Great Britain – A Mixed-Methods Approach7
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System7
Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities – CORRIGENDUM7
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Back matter7
Austerity, Poverty, and Children’s Services Quality in England: Consequences for Child Welfare and Public Services7
Austerity, Ageism, and the Rhetoric of Self-reliance: The Policy Drivers and Socio-cultural Attitudes Contributing to the Loneliness Experienced by Older Residents in an Underprivileged Community in S6
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix6
A Hidden Cost: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland6
Freedom and Gender Equality in EU Family Policy Tools – ERRATUM6
From Conceptual Gaps to Policy Dialogue: Conceptual Approaches to Disability and Old Age in Ageing Research and Disability Studies6
Crisis Management, Policy Reform, and Institutions: The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 in Australia6
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study6
LGBTQ+ Families, Welfare, and Same-sex Marriage Legalisation in Taiwan: A Social Policy Perspective5
Diversifying the Social Policy Curriculum: A Collaborative Approach5
Freedom and Gender Equality in EU Family Policy Tools5
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?5
The Problems with Troubled Families: Rethinking the Analysis Behind the 120,000 Troubled Families Statistic5
The Food Bank: A Safety-Net in Place of Welfare Security in Times of Austerity and the Covid-19 Crisis5
Some Useful Sources5
The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Policies on Young Fathers: Comparative Insights from the UK and Sweden5
Introduction: The (Un)Deserving Migrant? Street-Level Bordering Practices and Deservingness in Access to Social Services5
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Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus5
The Production of Employment Conditions for Migrant Care Workers: Cross National Perspectives5
Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities5
Governing Through (An Exclusive) Community: Limitations of State Conceptualisations of ‘the Community’ in Domestic Violence Policies5
Exploring the Alternatives to the Male-Breadwinner Model – The Implications for Social Policy Study4
Making a Case for Centring Energy Poverty in Social Policy in Light of the Climate Emergency: A Global Integrative Review4
Social Policy Development Revisited: The Interplay between Push and Pull Factors in the Indonesian Healthcare Expansion4
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM4
Some Useful Sources4
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Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Canada and the United States4
Sleepwalking into the ‘Post-Racial’: Social Policy and Research-Led Teaching4
No Place for Old Men? Meeting the Needs of an Ageing Male Prison Population in England and Wales4
The Social Practices of Food Bank Volunteer Work4
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‘It Matters How They See You’: ‘Maternal Activation’ As a Strategy to Navigate Contradictory Discourses of Motherhood and Neoliberal Activism in the Welsh Homelessness System4
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision4
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance4
Constituting ‘Problems’ through Policies: A WPR Approach of Policies Governing Teenage Pregnancy in France4
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The Cost-of-Living Crisis in the UK and Ireland: on Inflation, Indexation, and One-Off Policy Responses3
What Role for Activation in Eco-Social Policy?3
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services3
Temporary Measures or Lasting Reform? Examining Gulf States’ Evolving Welfare Policies in Response to the Global Health Crisis3
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach3
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State3
More than Money? Job Quality and Food Insecurity among Employed Lone Mother Households in the United States3
Beyond the Work Society? Social Policy and the Reduction of Working Time3
Military Veterans and Welfare Reform: Bridging Two Policy Worlds through Qualitative Longitudinal Research3
Chinese and Australian Neoliberal Policy Responses to Risks in Social Service Purchasing3
Some Useful Sources3
When Can Government Paternalist Interventions Be Justified? Welfare-to-Work and Interference Intentions3
Taking from the Disadvantaged? Consumption Tax Induced Poverty across Household Types in Eleven OECD Countries3
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State3
Incentives and Deterrents to the Supply of Long-term Care for the Elderly in England: Evidence and Experience in Two Local Authorities3
If Not Now, Then When? Pathways to Embed Climate Change Within Social Policy3
Towards a Sustainable Welfare State: The Role of Universal Basic Services3
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Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic3
Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors3
Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme3
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea3
Why Curriculum and Culturally Responsive Teaching is Important in the Education of Refugee Children: Some Suggestions from the Field3
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland – ERRATUM2
Deserving the Right to Work? Immigration Officials and the Work Permit in Germany2
What Determines Social Service Workers’ Wages: A Cross-Country Analysis Using a Luxembourg Income Study2
Cracking the Nest Egg: Comparing Pension Politics in Post-Communist Russia and Hungary – ERRATUM2
Case Study: Decolonising the Curriculum – An Exemplification2
No Common Ground? Public Knowledge about Welfare Spending in Turkey and its Social Divisions2
Meeting Marginal Demands in New Welfare Governance? China’s Contracting of Welfare Services in the Sectors of Disability and HIV/AIDS2
“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes2
‘Working With the Whole Person’: Employability Keyworker Experiences of Supporting People Furthest From the Labour Market2
The ‘Perfect Storm’: Food Banks and Food Insecurity During the Covid-19 Pandemic2
List of Referees for 20232
Exclusionary Mechanisms of Social Policy Redistribution in Hungary2
Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Southern Europe2
Social Capital, Social Health Insurance, and Health-related Quality of Life among People with Chronic Disease: Cultural and Ideational Perspectives2
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States2
“We Pupils Had to Hear…” Marginalised Youths’ Experiences of Racialising Language and Symbolic Violence in Swedish Schools2
Food for Thought: A Survey on the Nature of Work Precarity in Platform-Based On-Demand Work2
Agendas of Reform: Continuity and Change in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)2
Introduction: Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Persons2
How Does Automation Risk Shape Social Policy Preference? Employment Insecurity and Policy Feedback Effect in China1
Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System1
The Effect of Social Pension on Material Hardship among Older Adults in Korea: Regression Discontinuity Estimation1
Global Trends in Social Inclusion and Social Inclusion Policy: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda1
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Administrative Burden in Citizen-State Encounters: The Role of Waiting, Communication Breakdowns and Administrative Errors1
Northern Ireland Childcare Strategy: A Work in Progress?1
Hidden Homelessness: A Scoping Review and Avenues for Further Inquiry1
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction1
Social Policy Attitudes in the UK: Distinguishing Welfarism from Statism1
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’1
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?1
The Debt Relief Notice: Its Effectiveness in Improving the Financial Well-Being of Over-Indebted Individuals and Its Impact on Social Mobility1
Breaking the Impasse: Rethinking Refugee Integration through the Equality Act 2010 in the United Kingdom1
Post-COVID, Digital Societies: Opportunities and Policy Challenges for Human Security in the United Kingdom and South Korea1
Tackling Ethnic Minority Disadvantage: The Differential Impact of Short-term and Long-term-Oriented Strategies on Subsequent Job Matches and Sustainable Employment1
Explore the Mutual Benefits of Studying the Rights of Sexual Minority People in Hong Kong Confucianism1
Beyond the Budget: A Global Perspective on Social Spending through Tax Expenditures1
Taxation and Social Need: Lessons from the Short-Lived UK Health and Social Care Levy1
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries1
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England1
Conceptualising the Role of Deservingness in Migrants’ Access to Social Services1
Governing the Family through Parental Responsibilisation and Professionalisation: An Analysis of the State ‘Family Education’ Discourses in Contemporary China1
Silent Elements of Policy Change: Inflation and Uprating Mechanisms in the Low Countries0
What Do We Know About Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Participation in UK Higher Education?0
Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany0
Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection0
Migrants’ Relational Experiences with the Welfare State at the Street Level: A Focus on the Role of Language0
Income Support in an Eco-Social State: The Case for Participation Income0
NGOs and the Promotion of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe0
Engaging with Decolonisation, Tackling Antigypsyism: Lessons from Teaching Romani Studies at the Central European University in Hungary0
Introduction: Policies and Practices Shaping Long-Term Care: Between an Inclusivity Ethos and Service Delivery Realities0
Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Monochrome to Technicolour0
Transforming Familialistic Youth Welfare Policies in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Higher Education Support Policies in Korea and Japan0
Using the Intersectional Approach to Social Policy to Investigate the Adult Worker Model0
Colonial Disparities in Higher Education: Explaining Racial Inequality for Māori Youth in Aotearoa New Zealand0
Child Support in Shared Care Cases: Do Child Support Policies in Thirteen Countries Reflect Family Policy Models?0
Analysing Co-creation and Co-production Initiatives for the Development of Age-friendly Strategies: Learning from the Three Capital Cities in the Basque Autonomous Region0
Some Useful Sources0
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Introduction: Interrogating Welfare Stigma0
Five Factors for Effective Policy to Improve Attitudes towards People with Disability0
Intra-Crisis Lesson-Drawing in Real-Time: The Pandemic Lessons Available in the UK Media during the First Months of COVID-190
“I feel like I’m useful. I’m not useless, you know?”: Exploring Volunteering as Resistance to Stigma for Men Who Experience Mental Illness0
Language Hierarchies, Liminality, and Resistance in Canadian and Finnish Integration Educations for Adult Migrants0
‘They Made an Excellent Start…but After a While, It Started to Die Out’, Tensions in Combining Personalisation and Integration in English Adult Social Care0
How Have the Nordic Welfare States Responded to the Unexpected Increase in Inflation?0
Disability and Regulatory Approaches to Employer Engagement: Cross-National Challenges in Bridging the Gap between Motivation and Hiring Practice0
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Small Moments and Turning Points for Long-term Poor Families in Norway: The Lived Experience of Having a Family Coordinator0
The ‘Means Available to Relieve Suffering’: Translating Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards in Canadian Policy and Practice0
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties0
Case Study: Enhancing the Learning Experiences of BAME Students at a University: The University Role0
An Intersectional Approach to Family Life: Reflections on Same-Sex Marriage, Familisation Risks, and Defamilisation Risks in Mainland China0
It’s Not All About Bricks and Mortar: Experiences and Barriers in the Housing Crisis0
Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Policy Responses to Shared New Social Risks0
Financial Exclusion in the UK: Evidence on Ethnicity0
The Practical Politics of Doughnut Economics and Climate Crisis0
Introduction: Social Policy Responses and Institutional Reforms in the Pandemic0
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Person-Centred Approach to Bridging South Korea’s Digital Divide0
When Job Search is Deemed Insufficient: Experiences of Unemployed People Disbarred Following Compliancy Monitoring0
Universal Credit and Automated Decision Making: A Case of the Digital Tail Wagging the Policy Dog?0
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Some Useful Sources0
Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: a just transition to Net Zero0
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level0
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Othering in Media Representations of Elderly Care: Using the Social Justice Framework to Make Sense of Public Discourses on Migrants and Culture0
Some Useful Sources – CORRIGENDUM0
The Normative Construction of and Contestation over In-Work Benefits in Hong Kong: A Moral Economy Approach0
SPS volume 22 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
The Conditionality of Trusting Caseworkers in the Social Services Sector – Insights from Germany and Denmark0
Trapped in a Blind Spot: The Covid-19 Crisis in Nursing Homes in Italy and Spain0
List of Referees for 20210
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Tracing State Accountability for COVID-19: Representing Care within Ireland’s Response to the Pandemic0
The Importance of Considering Debt and Young Children in Activation: A Survival Analysis of Return to Welfare0
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism0
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Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector0
Partnership and Personalisation in Personal Care: Conflicts and Compromises0
Different, Yet the Same: Three Decades of Family Policy Change in Hungary, Lithuania and Romania0
Business Structures, Stereotypes and Knowledge of Discrimination: Understanding Employers’ Support to Paid Family Leave in Hong Kong0
Factors Associated with Preventive Care Utilisation among Chinese Older Adults: Evidence from the 2018 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey0
Devolution and Social Citizenship: The Case of the Basic Income Pilot for Care Leavers in Wales0
Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users0
Limits to Transformational Potential: Analysing Entitlement and Agency within a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines0
Progressing Towards a Freer Market in Australian Residential Aged Care0
Introduction: Comparing Social Policy Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis0
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy0
Some Useful Sources0
Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Monochrome to Technicolour – ERRATUM0
About Waiting: A Reading from Social Policies and Emotions in the Context of a Pandemic0
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry0
Working Hard or Hardly Working? Examining the Politics of In-Work Conditionality in the UK0
Constructions of Unemployed Individuals in German Parliamentary Debates on Active Labour Market Policy Reforms: A Comparative Analysis of 2003 and 20160
Representing the Social Problem of Dementia: Reflexions on Carol Bacchi’s What Is the Problem Represented to Be Approach0
The Same Storm, but Different Boats: Unpicking the ‘Housing Crisis’0
Contracting Out Social Services in China’s Three First-Tier Cities: Exploring ‘Variation’ through the Eyes of NGO Practitioners0
Informal Care Provision and the Reduction of Economic Activity Among Mid-Life Carers in Great Britain – A Mixed-Methods Approach – ERRATUM0
Why Do Families of Children with Disabilities Discontinue Using Rehabilitation Services? A Qualitative Study in Rural Mainland China0
Welfare between Social and Human Rights – Charity in the New Social Landscape of Sweden0
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Economic Sanctions and the Material Well-being of Iranian Older Adults: Do Pensions Make a Difference?0
The Impact of Employer Characteristics on Sustaining Employment for Workers with Reduced Capacity: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data0
Between the Client and the Institutional System: Street-level Bureaucrats’ Discretion, Positioning, and Trust in Institutional Encounters with Forced Migrants in Finland and Sweden0
Building the Evidence for Family Violence Policy Reform: The Work of Specialist Women’s Refuges in Victoria, Australia0
Leveraging Policy Capabilities in Russia and Finland during the Pandemic0
Are Young English People’s Attitudes Towards Employment Indicative of Whether They Have Spent a Large Proportion of Their Adult Lives Unemployed?0
Charting the Rough Journey to ‘Home’: The Contribution of Qualitative Longitudinal Research to Understandings of Homelessness in Austerity0
SPS volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Poverty by Design: The Role of Charity and the Cultivated Ethical Citizen0
The Economic Cost of Unpaid Care to the Public Finances: Inequalities in Welfare Benefits, Forgone Earnings-related Tax Revenue, and Health Service Utilisation0
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision – CORRIGENDUM0
Work First or Education First? Frontline Service Challenges of Providing Enabling Activation0
Some Useful Sources0
Social Policy and the Determinants of Vulnerability – Missing ‘Race’ in Climate Adaptation0
Some Useful Sources0
Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Asset-based Welfare and Housing in Great Britain0
‘You’re having us on … that’s what it felt like.’: Frontline Workers Navigating the Introduction of Moral Commitments to Domestic Abuse Support within a Statutory Homelessness System0
Editors’ Notes: Towards the Centenary of the ‘Beveridge Report’: A Debate on the Welfare State for the Next Twenty Years0
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Institutional Dimension of Burnout in Governmental Psychosocial and Community Programmes: Gaps between Intervening Conditions, Consequences, and Guidelines for Improvement0
Are Older Adults’ Leisure Patterns Consistent with the Active Ageing Model? The Influence of the Ageist Stereotypes0
Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation0
Introduction: Social Policy and the Climate Crisis0
Security, Social Policy, Agency and Work of the Courts in Relation to Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons0
Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry0
Applying Neo-Republican Theory to Welfare to Work Practices: Rules and Arbitrary Power in Mandatory Work Programmes in the Netherlands0
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work0
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