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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Logistics of care: Trust-reform and self-managing teams in municipal home care services46
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 Children42
What They Talk About When They Talk About Homelessness: Discourse and Knowledge Culture as a Barrier to Integrated Policy Initiatives32
To what extent does early childhood education policy in Australia recognise and propose action on the social determinants of health and health equity?31
The Dynamics of Social Assistance in the Informal Economy: Empirical Evidence from Urban China29
Understanding informal care burden domains’ impact on overall burden – a structural equation modeling approach with cross-sectional data from Germany27
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter21
Amandine Crespy (2022), The European Social Question: Tackling Key Controversies, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £24.99, pp. 256, pbk.19
Stewart Lansley (2021), The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History, Bristol: Policy Press, £19.99, pp. 318, pbk.19
JSP volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Front matter16
How Does the Provision of Childcare Services Affect Mothers’ Employment Intentions? Empirical Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment15
Digitally Networked Social Services: Mapping the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) online network in Queensland, Australia15
The contested jurisdiction of Social Policy in UK universities since 197214
Adapting to an older workforce: health and the (non) response of employers in an era of insecurity13
‘It’s Like the Sword of Damocles’ – A Trauma-Informed Framework Analysis of Individuals’ Experiences of Assessment for the Personal Independence Payment Benefit in the UK13
The impact of health impairments on employment entry and the quality of employment among basic income support recipients in Germany12
Organisational outputs of administrative reforms: disability in Danish job centres12
Emergency Responses to COVID-19 and Opportunities for Inclusive Social Policy12
Cross-jurisdictional youth employment policy and welfare in Scotland, Wales and England: a street-level perspective12
Not that basic: how level, design, and context matter for the redistributive outcomes of universal basic income11
Deserving more? A vignette study on the role of self-interest and deservingness opinions for popular support for wealth taxation in Germany11
Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies10
Ship of Theseus: from ILO Standards to Outcome of Maternity Protection Policy10
Opening the black box of the municipal government: exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands10
Cities as social investment frontrunners: the case of Amsterdam as innovator and welfare stopgap10
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison9
Social Policy and Queer Lives: Coming Out of the Closet?9
JSP volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Front matter9
The Persistence in Gendering: Work-Family Policy in Britain since Beveridge9
Ute Klammer, Simone Leiber and Sigrid Leitner (eds) (2020), Social Work and the Making of Social Policy, Bristol: Policy Press, £26.99, pp. 256, pbk.9
Competition and childcare quality: Evidence from Quebec9
Bent Greve (2022), Rethinking Welfare and the Welfare State, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £63.00, pp. 160, hbk.*8
To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them8
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons8
First thing to go? Key findings from a foundational study of hygiene poverty in Ireland8
Does the family care best? Ideals of care in a familialistic care regime8
Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales8
Financialisation and private equity in early childhood care and education in England8
Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens’ Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway8
JSP volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Front matter8
Recognising and addressing wealth privilege in policymaking through an analysis of epistemic practice and agency8
How Incarcerating Children Affects their Labour Market Outcomes8
Socio-Economic Gaps in Workers’ Participation in Private Pension Programmes in Ten European Countries7
State inspection in contexts of cultural and sociopolitical conflict: The case of social services offered to Arab-Palestinian young women in Israel7
Between ideology and self-interest: exploring variations in public support for basic income schemes in Germany7
JSP volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Back matter7
Incoherent and Indefensible? A Normative Analysis of Young People’s Position in England’s Welfare and Homelessness Systems7
Did increasing the UK’s Universal Credit and working tax credits by £20 per week in 2020–2021 reduce food insecurity?7
Financializing Healthcare and Infrastructures of Social Reproduction: How to Bankrupt a Hospital and be Unprepared for a Pandemic7
Does the Family Care Best? Ideals of Care in a Familialistic Care Regime – ERRATUM7
Does young adulthood caring influence educational attainment and employment in the UK and Germany?7
Income Insecurity and the Relational Coping Strategies of Low-Income Households in the UK7
John Stewart (2020), Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 600, hbk.6
Derek Fraser (2023), The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State, London & New York: Routledge, £120, pp. 240, hbk.6
Comparing Government Social Welfare Service Acquisition Regimes: Marketisation and Bases for Competition in Canadian and English Homelessness6
How and why does relational welfare work to support young people not in employment, education or training (NEET)? A realist evaluation6
Individual and Contextual Sources of (Mis)Perceptions About the Impact of Immigration on the Welfare State6
When trade-offs touch self-interests: attitudes on education spending in a cross-country analysis6
Lisa Dellmuth (2021), Is Europe Good For You? EU Spending and Well-Being, Bristol University Press, £47.99, pp. 202, hbk.6
Investigating social protection amongst platform workers in Germany: forced individualisation, hybrid income generation and undesired regulation6
‘It’s Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard’: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service6
The Participation of People in Vulnerable Situations in Interest Organisations: A Qualitative Study of Representatives Views5
In Defence of Ordinary Help: Estimating the effect of Early Help/Family Support Spending on Children in Need Rates in England using ALT-SR5
Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen (2020), Finntopia: What We Can Learn From the World’s Happiest Country, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, £18.99, pp. 320, hbk.5
Missing Incomes in the UK: Evidence and Policy Implications5
Booming opportunities and looming challenges? Expansion strategies among finance-controlled providers in the field of Swedish eldercare5
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, h5
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Front matter5
Welfare Attitudes in Crisis: The Role of Ideology in Healthcare Satisfaction in Portugal and Ireland5
Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK: Learning from the Pandemic. Edited by Irene Hardill , Jurgen Grotz and Laura Crawford . Policy Press, 2022, 202pp, Paperback, £14.99/EPUB Open Access. ISBN 29785
Paul Spicker (2022), How to Fix the Welfare State: Some Ideas for Better Social Services, Bristol: Policy Press, £27.99, pp. 168, pbk.5
JSP volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Back matter5
A dynamic perspective on profiling financial-aid eligibility: the case of South Africa4
Anja Eleveld , Thomas Kampen and Josien Arts (eds) (2020) Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare States: Legal, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Justice and Domination, Brist4
The unexpected impact of geographic access on take-up of social benefits4
Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work4
Philanthropic Foundations and Institutional Change under Rigid Authoritarianism: Exploring the Ford Foundation’s Historical Grantmaking in the Chinese Family Planning Field (1991–2005)4
Paul Spicker (2019), Thinking Collectively Social Policy, Collective Action and the Common Good, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 188, hbk.4
Improving Take-Up by Reaching Out to Potential Beneficiaries. Insights from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Belgium4
Jonathan Wistow (2022), Social Policy, Political Economy and the Social Contract, Bristol: Policy Press, £24.99, pp. 190, pbk.4
Take-up and distribution of a universal cash benefit: The case of the Austrian long-term care allowance4
JSP volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
Making the most of language acquisition of Syrian asylum permit holders in the Netherlands: the role of policy factors examined4
The Effect of Social Benefit Reform on Educational Inequality4
What are the Barriers to Taxing Wealth? The Case of a Wealth Tax Proposal in the UK4
Conditionality and contentment: Universal Credit and UK welfare benefit recipients’ life satisfaction4
Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Co-Production Processes in the Disability Sector: Individual and Collection Action Views4
Varieties of engagement: exploring the micro-practices of managers in employing disadvantaged jobseekers3
When do municipalities smooth access for new social assistance claimants? Local determinants of municipal welfare agency’s implementation practices in Belgium3
How has the idea of prevention been conceptualised and progressed in adult social care in England?3
Attitudes toward government, rich and poor, and support for redistribution3
Universal Credit: administrative burdens of automated welfare3
The two-child policy was not associated with an increase in abortions among its target population3
Covid19, Charitable Giving and Collectivism: a data-harvesting approach3
JSP volume 52 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
Discrimination in marketized welfare services: a field experiment on Swedish schools3
Are Social Impact Bonds an Innovation in Finance or Do They Help Finance Social Innovation?3
Which Active Labor Market Policies Work for Male Refugees? Evidence from Germany – CORRIGENDUM3
Global Patterns of Contemporary Welfare States – ERRATUM3
Fostering societal participation of marginalised people in street-outreach services in the Netherlands3
Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: foundations of the US ecosocial safety net3
Employer Responses to Legislation Protecting Non-Regular Workers: Evidence from South Korea3
Did the COVID-19 pandemic fuel public support for social protection?3
Co-producing care: roles and strategies of informal carers3
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?3
‘Navigating’ the Value of Lived Experience in Support Work with Multiply Disadvantaged Adults3
New shades of conflict? Theorising the multi-dimensional politics of eco-social policies3
JSP volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
JSP volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Front matter2
Who excludes? Young People’s Experience of Social Exclusion2
Between left and right: A discourse network analysis of Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter2
Do crisis narratives encourage redistribution? Australian housing policy debates during COVID-192
Sheila Shaver (ed) (2020) Handbook on Gender and Social Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, £42.00, pp. 480, pbk.2
Expanding Welfare State Borders: Trade Unions and the Introduction of Pro-Outsiders Social Policies in Italy and Argentina2
Who deserves economic relief? Examining Twitter/X debates about Covid-19 economic relief for small businesses and the self-employed in Germany2
JSP volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter2
A Social Policy Case for a Four-Day Week2
JSP volume 53 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
Paternity leave-taking and US Fathers’ participation in housework2
Which training leads to employment? The effectiveness of varying types of training programmes for unemployed jobseekers in Flanders2
Delivering ‘50 PLUS Choices’ in the UK: how compatible are ‘fuller working lives’ with an increasing reliance on informal carers to deliver social care?2
Paternalism in Australian parliamentary debate: the case of drug testing social security recipients2
Housing affordability and poverty in Europe: on the deteriorating position of market renters2
Social and environmental protection: the effects of social insurance generosity on the acceptance of material sacrifices for the sake of environmental protection2
Why Do People Support or Oppose Maximum Income? Ideological Dispersion around Four Positions and Shared Concerns about Implementation2
Hope in a paranoid place? Critique, utopianism and prefigurative policy reform2
Unconditional cash transfers and compliance with public health recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States2
Welfare Expansion without Inequality Reduction: Institutional Explanation of Old-Age Poverty in Korea2
The Rise and Fall of Social Housing? Housing Decommodification in Long-run Comparison2
The Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Research Evidence2
Stijn Oosterlynck , Andreas Novy and Yuri Kazepov (eds) (2019) Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty and Exclusion: A Critical Appraisal, Bristol: Policy Press, £75.00, pp. 276, hbk.2
Inequality of Opportunity in Health Among Urban, Rural, and Migrant Children: Evidence from China2
JSP volume 51 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State1
Social bridging finance: a new Scottish model for financing public service design and delivery?1
Employer-provided childcare across the 50 United States: the normative importance of public childcare and female leadership1
Polarisation and inequality: ‘peace’ in Northern Ireland1
Getting By: Neoliberal Governmentality and the Lack of Success in Instilling Financial Self-Reliance1
Beyond individual responsibility – towards a relational understanding of financial resilience through participatory research and design1
Horses for Courses: Subject Differences in the Chances of Securing Different Types of Graduate Jobs in the UK1
Suspicious Minds? Media effects on the perception of disability benefit claimants1
The Journal of Social Policy Turns 50 – Time for Reflections and Looking to the Future1
Charities’ income during the COVID-19 pandemic: administrative evidence for England and Wales1
Disability and Employment Policy in Canada: National Policy Variation for Working Age Individuals1
Towards policies of dignity? The German Participation Opportunities Act as a response to long-term unemployment1
Financial inclusion in the digital banking age: Lessons from rural India1
The politics of minimum income reform in Spain: explaining unexpected and consensual path departure1
The Role of the Deservingness Criteria in the case of Single Mothers’ Perceived Welfare Deservingness in Hungary1
The Schumpeterian Consensus: The New Logic of Global Social Policy to Face Digital Transformation1
Performance and trust in child protection systems: a comparative analysis of England and Norway1
A Framework for Evaluating the Adequacy of Disability Benefit Programs and its Application to the U.S. Social Security Disability Programs1
JSP volume 53 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Protest and Social Policies for Outsiders: The Expansion of Social Pensions in Latin America1
Goodbye human annotators? Content analysis of social policy debates using ChatGPT1
Monitoring a Fragile Child Protection System: a Longitudinal Local Area Ecological Analysis of the Inequalities Impact of Children’s Services Inspections on Statutory Child Welfare Interventions in En1
Dennie Oude Nijhuis (ed) (2021), Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State, Abingdon & New York: Routledge, £36.99, pp. 376, pbk.1
Weakly institutionalized, heavily contested: Does support for contemporary welfare reforms rely on norms of distributive justice?1
Female mayors do not lead to greater childcare provision – Evidence from Polish municipalities1
JSP volume 53 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger and Marta Lorimer (2022), Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness, and Democracy, Bristol: Policy Press, £47.99, pp. 200, pbk.1
European Youth Work Policy and Young People’s Experience of Open Access Youth Work – CORRIGENDUM1
Parental Leave Take-up and its Intensity. Do Partners’ Workplace Characteristics Matter?1
Policy feedback and income targeting in the welfare state1
Elisabeth Anderson (2021), Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State, Princeton: Princeton University Press, £25.00, pp. 384, pbk.1
Why Do Poor People Not Take up Benefits? Evidence from the Barcelona’s B-MINCOME Experiment1
The Street-Level Organisation in-between Employer Needs and Client Needs: Creaming Users by Motivation in the Norwegian Employment and Welfare Service (NAV)1
JSP volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
The dynamic effects of becoming disabled on work, wages and wellbeing in the UK from 1991 to 20181
A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK1
Territory and solidarity: evidence from Taiwan’s pension policy reform1
Moving Social Policy from Mental Illness to Public Wellbeing1
Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state: The passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in the United States1
Embedded and exterior practices of cross-sector co-production: the impact of fields – CORRIGENDUM1
Peter Taylor-Gooby (2022), A Kinder City: A Market World Novel, Market Harborough: Troubador Publishing, £9.99, pp. 320 pbk, £2.99 ebook.1
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