OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy and Society is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States	29
Conceptualising the Role of Deservingness in Migrants’ Access to Social Services	28
What Do We Know About Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Participation in UK Higher Education?	27
Developing a New Conceptual Framework of Meaningful Interaction for Understanding Social Isolation and Loneliness	20
Determinants of Public Support for Eco-Social Policies: A Comparative Theoretical Framework	17
Two Scenarios for Sustainable Welfare: A Framework for an Eco-Social Contract	17
Deserving of Social Support? Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Decisions on EU Migrants’ Benefit Claims in Germany	15
Income Support in an Eco-Social State: The Case for Participation Income	14
Fluid Enquiry, Complex Causality, Policy Processes: Making a Difference with Qualitative Longitudinal Research	14
Retrenched, Reconfigured and Broken: The British Welfare State after a Decade of Austerity	13
Towards a Capability-Oriented Eco-Social Policy: Elements of a Normative Framework	12
Employment Inequalities Among British Minority Ethnic Workers in Health and Social Care at the Time of Covid-19: A Rapid Review of the Literature	12
Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Monochrome to Technicolour	11
Insecurity and Historical Legacies in Welfare Regime Change in Southeast Asia – Insights from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand	11
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries	11
The Food Bank: A Safety-Net in Place of Welfare Security in Times of Austerity and the Covid-19 Crisis	11
Into the Promised Land: Modelling the Role of Take-Up Agents in Realising Welfare Rights	11
Revisiting Global Welfare Regimes: Gender, (In)formal Employment and Care	11
Hidden Homelessness: A Scoping Review and Avenues for Further Inquiry	9
Towards a Sustainable Welfare State: The Role of Universal Basic Services	9
Street-Level Judgements about Welfare Deservingness: How Jobcentre Advisors Decide about the Individual Mix of ‘Support’ and ‘Demand’ in the Delivery of Activation Policies	9
Poverty by Design: The Role of Charity and the Cultivated Ethical Citizen	8
Introduction: Global Welfare Regimes Revisited	8
Employer Engagement in Promoting the Labour-Market Participation of Jobseekers with Disabilities. An Employer Perspective	8
Coping with Gendered Welfare Stigma: Exploring Everyday Accounts of Stigma and Resistance Strategies among Mothers Who Claim Social Security Benefits	8

Revisiting Global Welfare Regime Classifications	8
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State	8
Introduction Qualitative Longitudinal Research for Social Policy – Where Are We Now?	8
Right-Wing Populism and the Securitisation of Laïcité Narratives in French Education Policy	8
Crisis Management, Policy Reform, and Institutions: The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 in Australia	8
Older Carers and Carers of People with Dementia: Improving and Developing Effective Support	7
Diversifying the Social Policy Curriculum: A Collaborative Approach	7
Examining the Consequences of Welfare Conditionality: A Case Study of Compulsory Income Management in the Regional Community of Ceduna, Australia	7
Ideas and Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia	7
Employer Engagement and Active Labour Market Policies. Evidence from a Norwegian Multi-Method Study	7
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic	7
What Is Out There and What Can We Learn? International Evidence on Funding and Delivery of Long-Term Care	7
The Legacy of Austerity	6
Self-funders: Still By-Standers in the English Social Care Market?	6
Families, Work and Care: Qualitative Longitudinal Research and Policy Engagement	6
The Brexit Religion and the Holy Grail of the NHS	6
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry	6
Populism, Religion and Catholic Civil Society in Poland: The Case of Primary Education	6
Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme	6
Universal Credit and Automated Decision Making: A Case of the Digital Tail Wagging the Policy Dog?	6
Building the Evidence for Family Violence Policy Reform: The Work of Specialist Women’s Refuges in Victoria, Australia	6
Engaging with Decolonisation, Tackling Antigypsyism: Lessons from Teaching Romani Studies at the Central European University in Hungary	5
Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users	5
Government Transfers and Poverty Alleviation among Older Adults in the United States from 2002 to 2014	5
Introduction: A Hostile Decade for Social Policy: Economic Crisis, Political Crisis and Austerity 2010-20	5
Relationships in the Implementation of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Provision of Health in the Oportunidades-Prospera Programme in Puebla, Mexico	5
Has Social Policy Expansion in Latin America Reduced Welfare Decommodification and Defamilialisation? Evidence from an Overview of the Mexican Welfare Regime	5
Colonial Disparities in Higher Education: Explaining Racial Inequality for Māori Youth in Aotearoa New Zealand	5
Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Policy Responses to Shared New Social Risks	5
Child Support in Shared Care Cases: Do Child Support Policies in Thirteen Countries Reflect Family Policy Models?	5
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary	5
Limits to Transformational Potential: Analysing Entitlement and Agency within a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines	5
Deservingness and Uneven Geographies of Asylum Accommodation	5
Introduction: Interrogating Welfare Stigma	5
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector	5
In-cash Transfers: from Passive to Empowered Beneficiaries in the Global South	5
Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry	5
Intra-Crisis Lesson-Drawing in Real-Time: The Pandemic Lessons Available in the UK Media during the First Months of COVID-19	5
More than a Free Lunch: A Content Analysis of the Controversies Surrounding Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter	5
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England	4
The Production of Employment Conditions for Migrant Care Workers: Cross National Perspectives	4
Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan	4
Supporting Older Co-Resident Carers of Older People – The Impact of Care Act Implementation in Four Local Authorities in England	4
Charting the Rough Journey to ‘Home’: The Contribution of Qualitative Longitudinal Research to Understandings of Homelessness in Austerity	4
Are Older Adults’ Leisure Patterns Consistent with the Active Ageing Model? The Influence of the Ageist Stereotypes	4
Recommodification and the Welfare State in Re/Financialised Austerity Capitalism: Further Eroding Social Citizenship?	4
Sick and Vulnerable Migrants in French Public Hospitals. The Administrative and Budgetary Dimension of Un/Deservingness	4
What Role for Activation in Eco-Social Policy?	4
Deservingness in Judicial Discourse. An Analysis of the Legal Reasoning Adopted in Dutch Case Law on Irregular Migrant Families’ Access to Shelter	4
The Management of Retirement Savings Among Financially Heterogamous Couples	4

Understanding the ‘Tipped Minimum Wage’: Critical Directions for US Policy Research	4
Passing Stigma: Negotiations of Welfare Categories as Street Level Governmentality	4
Tracing State Accountability for COVID-19: Representing Care within Ireland’s Response to the Pandemic	4
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?	4
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision	4
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future	4
Mixed Services and Mediated Deservingness: Access to Housing for Migrants in Greece	4
Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany	4
Introduction: Taxation and Social Policy	4
Enough is Enough: De-colonise, Diversify and De-construct the Curriculum	4