Journal of Social Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Social Policy is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work28
Social Policy in a Climate Emergency Context: Towards an Ecosocial Research Agenda26
The Impact of Reduced Working Hours and Furlough Policies on Workers’ Mental Health at the Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study25
Social Investment, Redistribution or Basic Income? Exploring the Association Between Automation Risk and Welfare State Attitudes in Europe24
Digital Social Policy: Past, Present, Future22
Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy22
Co-Creation in an era of Welfare Conditionality – Lessons from Denmark22
The Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Research Evidence17
In-work Universal Credit: Claimant Experiences of Conditionality Mismatches and Counterproductive Benefit Sanctions16
‘Rising demand and decreasing resources’: Theorising the ‘cost of austerity’ as a barrier to social worker discretion14
Public Pension Generosity and Old-Age Poverty in OECD countries13
Financial inclusion in the digital banking age: Lessons from rural India12
Plumbing the Depths: The Changing (Socio-Demographic) Profile of UK Poverty12
European Youth Work Policy and Young People’s Experience of Open Access Youth Work11
Educational Inequalities in Labor Market Exit of Older Workers in 15 European Countries11
The Taxation of Families: How Gendered (De)Familialization Tax Policies Modify Horizontal Income Inequality11
Understanding Healthcare Social Enterprises: A New Public Governance Perspective11
Social Investment, Employment and Policy and Institutional Complementarities: A Comparative Analysis across 26 OECD Countries10
The Lived Experience of Financialization at the UK Financial Fringe10
How Socioeconomic Status and Family Social Capital Matter for the Subjective Well-Being of Young People: Implications for the Child and Family Welfare Policy in Ghana10
Conditional Solidarity - Attitudes Towards Support for Others During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic9
Short-Term Health Policy Responses to Crisis and Uncertainty9
Changes in Access to Australian Disability Support Benefits During a Period of Social Welfare Reform9
Trapped into Reverse Asymmetry: Public Employment Services Dealing with Employers9
To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them8
In Defence of Ordinary Help: Estimating the effect of Early Help/Family Support Spending on Children in Need Rates in England using ALT-SR8
Does Student Loan Debt Structure Young People’s Housing Tenure? Evidence from England8
Moving Social Policy from Mental Illness to Public Wellbeing8
Social Movements and Social Policy: New Research Horizons8
A Social Policy Case for a Four-Day Week8
Examining Veterans’ Interactions with the UK Social Security System through a Trauma-Informed Lens8
How do you Shape a Market? Explaining Local State Practices in Adult Social Care7
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison7
The role of social enterprises in facilitating labour market integration for people with disabilities: A convenient deflection from policy mainstreaming?7
Governing Researchers through Public Involvement7
Placement Advisors as Innovators. How Professionals Use Enhanced Discretion in Germany’s Public Employment Services7
A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK7
Who excludes? Young People’s Experience of Social Exclusion7
The Implications of Political Trust for Supporting Public Transport7
A theory of informal and formal social citizenship and welfare6
Necessities Laid Bare: An Examination of Possible Justifications for Peter Townsend’s Purely Relative Definition of Poverty6
The Problem of Success and Failure in Public-private Innovation Partnerships6
The Rise and Fall of Social Housing? Housing Decommodification in Long-run Comparison6
Preferences, vote choice, and the politics of social investment: Addressing the puzzle of unequal benefits of childcare provision6
The role of social innovation policy in social service sector reform: Evidence from Hong Kong6
Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State6
First step and last resort: One-Euro-Jobs after the reform6
Empowering Lone Parents to Progress towards Employability5
The effects of an old-age allowance programme on intergenerational interactions in Taiwan: Heterogeneous effects by adult children’s motives for giving5
Scandinavian Approaches to Begging as a Policy Problem and the Double Insider/Outsider Status of Marginalized Intra-EU Migrants5
Why Do Poor People Not Take up Benefits? Evidence from the Barcelona’s B-MINCOME Experiment5
The Distinctiveness of Smaller Voluntary Organisations Providing Welfare Services5
Are Social Impact Bonds an Innovation in Finance or Do They Help Finance Social Innovation?5
Institutions and the politics of agency in COVID-19 response: Federalism, executive power, and public health policy in Brazil, India, and the U.S.5
A safety net for all? – Vignette-based assessments of Swedish social assistance over three decades5
Government profiles as perceived by governments’ NPO partners in Chinese social service delivery5
“You have to work…but you can’t!”: Contradictions of the Active Labour Market Policies for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK5
Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens’ Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway5
Income Loss and Leave Taking: Increased Financial Benefits and Fathers’ Parental Leave Use in Sweden5
Family as a Redistributive Principle of the Welfare State. The Case of Germany5
‘It’s Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard’: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service5
Subsidized Household Services and Informal Employment: The Belgian Service Voucher Policy4
Institutional Business Power: The Case of Ireland’s Private Home Care Providers4
How Welfare Professions Contribute to the Making of Welfare Governance: Professional Agency and Institutional Work in Elder Care4
A Fast Track to Social Rights? Passported Benefits and Administrative Burden4
The Polarising Worlds of Welfare: Political Orientations, Macroeconomic Context, and Support for Redistribution4
Discrimination in marketized welfare services: a field experiment on Swedish schools4
Global Patterns of Contemporary Welfare States4
Working Less, Not More in a Workfare Programme: Group Solidarity, Informal Norms and Alternative Value Systems Amongst Activated Participants4
Improving Take-Up by Reaching Out to Potential Beneficiaries. Insights from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Belgium4
Have the Welfare Professions Lost Autonomy? A Comparative Study of Doctors and Teachers4
Income Insecurity and the Relational Coping Strategies of Low-Income Households in the UK4
Charities’ income during the COVID-19 pandemic: administrative evidence for England and Wales4
Between left and right: A discourse network analysis of Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter4
Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies4
Missing Incomes in the UK: Evidence and Policy Implications4
Hybrid entitlement: Welfare recipients’ perceptions of entitlement to social rights4
The Street-Level Organisation in-between Employer Needs and Client Needs: Creaming Users by Motivation in the Norwegian Employment and Welfare Service (NAV)4
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons3
The Politics of Change. Coalitional politics and labour market reforms during the sovereign debt crisis in Portugal3
The Relevance of Job-Related Concessions for Unemployment Duration Among Recipients of Means-Tested Benefits in Germany3
Social Policy Expansion and Retrenchment in Latin America: Causal Paths to Successful Reform3
Accountability in personalised Supported Employment-based activation services3
Technology and homecare in the UK: Policy, storylines and practice3
Which Active Labor Market Policies Work for Male Refugees? Evidence from Germany3
Digital Practices of Negotiation: Social Workers at the Intersection of Migration and Social Policies in Switzerland and Belgium3
Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Co-Production Processes in the Disability Sector: Individual and Collection Action Views3
Market-Oriented Policies on Care for Older People in Urban China: Examining the Experiment-Based Policy Implementation Process3
Socio-Economic Performance of European Welfare States in Technology-Induced Employment Scenarios3
Why is Lived Experience Absent from Social Security Policymaking?3
How Does the Provision of Childcare Services Affect Mothers’ Employment Intentions? Empirical Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment3
Does the family care best? Ideals of care in a familialistic care regime3
Richness, Insecurity and the Welfare State3
Social Policy and Queer Lives: Coming Out of the Closet?3
The rise of big philanthropy in global social policy: implications for policy transfer and analysis3
Expanding Welfare State Borders: Trade Unions and the Introduction of Pro-Outsiders Social Policies in Italy and Argentina3
When do municipalities smooth access for new social assistance claimants? Local determinants of municipal welfare agency’s implementation practices in Belgium3
Class Conflict or Consensus? Understanding Social Partner Positions on Social Policy Reforms3
Parental Leave Take-up and its Intensity. Do Partners’ Workplace Characteristics Matter?2
The Leadership of Co-Production in Health and Social Care Integration in Scotland: A Qualitative Study2
Digitally Networked Social Services: Mapping the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) online network in Queensland, Australia2
Mary Daly (2020), Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £25.00, pp. 232, pbk.2
‘Navigating’ the Value of Lived Experience in Support Work with Multiply Disadvantaged Adults2
Protest and Social Policies for Outsiders: The Expansion of Social Pensions in Latin America2
The impact of using an income supplement to meet child poverty targets: evidence from Scotland2
Weakly institutionalized, heavily contested: Does support for contemporary welfare reforms rely on norms of distributive justice?2
How has the idea of prevention been conceptualised and progressed in adult social care in England?2
‘The Biggest Charity You’ve Never Heard of’: Institutional Logics of Charity and the State in Public Fundraising in Scotland’s NHS.2
The Persistence in Gendering: Work-Family Policy in Britain since Beveridge2
In Their Own Best Interest. Is There a Paternalistic Case for Welfare Conditionality?2
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany2
Employer-provided childcare across the 50 United States: the normative importance of public childcare and female leadership2
Individual and Contextual Sources of (Mis)Perceptions About the Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State2
Financializing Healthcare and Infrastructures of Social Reproduction: How to Bankrupt a Hospital and be Unprepared for a Pandemic2
No Longer ‘Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards’? Advances in Local State-Voluntary and Community Sector Relationships During Covid-192
Legitimate child protection interventions and the dimension of confidence: A comparative analysis of populations views in six European countries2
How Much Choice is Enough? Parental Satisfaction with Secondary School Choice in England and Scotland2
Embedded and exterior practices of cross-sector co-production: the impact of fields2
Welfare Expansion without Inequality Reduction: Institutional Explanation of Old-Age Poverty in Korea2
The Role of the Deservingness Criteria in the case of Single Mothers’ Perceived Welfare Deservingness in Hungary2
Paternalism in Australian parliamentary debate: the case of drug testing social security recipients2
Policy feedback and income targeting in the welfare state2
The Participation of People in Vulnerable Situations in Interest Organisations: A Qualitative Study of Representatives Views2
The Dynamics of Social Assistance in the Informal Economy: Empirical Evidence from Urban China2
Next to Nothing: The Impact of the Norwegian Introduction Programme on Female Immigrants’ Labour Market Inclusion2
An analysis of the Dutch-style pension plans proposed by UK policy-makers2
Does the Family Care Best? Ideals of Care in a Familialistic Care Regime – ERRATUM2
Do Assessment Tools Shape Policy Preferences? Analysing Policy Framing Effects on Older Adults’ Conceptualisation of Autonomy2
Parenting Support and its Different Functions – Parents’ Experiences. A Case Study from Norway2
Outcome-based contracting and gaming practices in marketised public employment services. Dilemmas from the Italian case2
The Schumpeterian Consensus: The New Logic of Global Social Policy to Face Digital Transformation1
Welfare Regime Variation in the Impact of the Great Recession on Deprivation Levels: A Dynamic Perspective on Polarisation vs Convergence for Social Risk Groups, 2005–20141
A Framework for Evaluating the Adequacy of Disability Benefit Programs and its Application to the U.S. Social Security Disability Programs1
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons – CORRIGENDUM1
Welfare Sanctions and Deprivation in Germany: Do First Sanctions Lead to Higher Levels of Deprivation Among the Long-Term Unemployed and Recipients of Basic Income Support?1
Are Factors Associated with Adult Refugees’ Settlement different from Well-Being? A Longitudinal Study focusing on Gender and Age in Australia1
Advancing Value Pluralist Approaches to Social Policy Controversies: A Case Study of Welfare Conditionality1
Covid19, Charitable Giving and Collectivism: a data-harvesting approach1
Impact of unconditional cash transfers on household livelihood outcomes in Nigeria1
Financialisation and private equity in early childhood care and education in England1
Basic Income and the Legitimization Crisis of Neoliberalism1
Conditionality and contentment: Universal Credit and UK welfare benefit recipients’ life satisfaction1
‘Unprecedented injustice’: Digitalisation and the perceived accessibility of childcare benefits1
Will Bartlett , Vassilis Monastiriotis and Panagiotis Koutrumpis (eds) (2020), Social Exclusion and Labour Market Challenges in the Western Balkans, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, £64.99, pp. 309, h1
Getting By: Neoliberal Governmentality and the Lack of Success in Instilling Financial Self-Reliance1
Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany?1
“Oldies come bottom of Grim Reaper hierarchy” : A framing analysis of UK newspaper coverage of old age and risk of dying during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic1
State inspection in contexts of cultural and sociopolitical conflict: The case of social services offered to Arab-Palestinian young women in Israel1
Welfare Attitudes in Crisis: The Role of Ideology in Healthcare Satisfaction in Portugal and Ireland1
Employer Responses to Legislation Protecting Non-Regular Workers: Evidence from South Korea1
How Does the Content of Deservingness Criteria Differ for More and Less Deserving Target Groups? An Analysis of Polish Online Debates on Refugees and Families with Children1
Incoherent and Indefensible? A Normative Analysis of Young People’s Position in England’s Welfare and Homelessness Systems1
How Incarcerating Children Affects their Labour Market Outcomes1
Impact of South Carolina’s TANF Program on Earnings of New Entrants Before and During the Great Economic Recession1
Fiona Williams (2021), Social Policy: A Critical and Intersectional Analysis, Cambridge: Polity, £18.99, pp. 248, pbk.1
What Curbs Social Investment? The Effect of Foreign Electoral Outcomes on Childcare Expenditure Levels1
What are the Barriers to Taxing Wealth? The Case of a Wealth Tax Proposal in the UK1
Joseph Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Martine Durand (eds) (2019), For Good Measure: An Agenda for Moving Beyond GDP, New York and London: The New Press, $39.99, pp. 448, hbk.1
The contested jurisdiction of Social Policy in UK universities since 19721
Voluntary Action, Territory and Timing: The Council of Social Service for Wales, Periodisation and the New Historiography of the ‘British Welfare State’1
Who should pay for social care for older people in England? Results from surveys of public attitudes to the funding of adult social care1
Child-related Social Policies in Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic1
What They Talk About When They Talk About Homelessness: Discourse and Knowledge Culture as a Barrier to Integrated Policy Initiatives1
Challenges to the Strategic State: Welfare Reform Lessons from a Devolved Polity1
Changes in Working Women’s Self-Reported Subjective Wellbeing and Quality of Interpersonal Relationships During COVID-19: A Quantitative Comparison of Essential and Non-essential Workers in Singapore1
Attitudes toward government, rich and poor, and support for redistribution1
Recognising and addressing wealth privilege in policymaking through an analysis of epistemic practice and agency1
The Impact of (In)Stability of Pension System on Retirement Timing: Macro-Level Analysis Based on “Certainty Effect”1
Public Acceptance of Regional Redistribution in Germany: A Survey Experiment on the Perceived Deservingness of Regions1
Take-up and distribution of a universal cash benefit: The case of the Austrian long-term care allowance1
Housing affordability and poverty in Europe: on the deteriorating position of market renters1
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