OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Social Policy is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A lost decade? A renewed case for adult social care reform in England	27
Beyond Welfare Chauvinism and Deservingness. Rationales of Belonging as a Conceptual Framework for the Politics and Governance of Migrants’ Rights	25
The Impact of Reduced Working Hours and Furlough Policies on Workers’ Mental Health at the Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study	23
Social Investment, Redistribution or Basic Income? Exploring the Association Between Automation Risk and Welfare State Attitudes in Europe	19
The Continuing Effects of Welfare Reform on Food Bank use in the UK: The Roll-out of Universal Credit	19
Using Artificial Intelligence to classify Jobseekers: The Accuracy-Equity Trade-off	18
Co-Creation in an era of Welfare Conditionality – Lessons from Denmark	17
Can Robots Understand Welfare? Exploring Machine Bureaucracies in Welfare-to-Work	14
The Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Research Evidence	13
In-work Universal Credit: Claimant Experiences of Conditionality Mismatches and Counterproductive Benefit Sanctions	13
‘Rising demand and decreasing resources’: Theorising the ‘cost of austerity’ as a barrier to social worker discretion	12
Digital Social Policy: Past, Present, Future	11
Social Policy in a Climate Emergency Context: Towards an Ecosocial Research Agenda	11
Building the Future from the Present: Imagining Post-Growth, Post-Productivist Ecosocial Policy	11
Plumbing the Depths: The Changing (Socio-Demographic) Profile of UK Poverty	11
Educational Inequalities in Labor Market Exit of Older Workers in 15 European Countries	10
Mental Health Problems at a Critical Juncture: Exit from Social Assistance among Young Finns	9
The Taxation of Families: How Gendered (De)Familialization Tax Policies Modify Horizontal Income Inequality	9
Public Pension Generosity and Old-Age Poverty in OECD countries	9
The third sector in a strategically selective landscape – the case of commissioning public services	9
Ambiguity and Conflict in Policy Implementation: The Case of the New Care Models (Vanguard) Programme in England	9
Trapped into Reverse Asymmetry: Public Employment Services Dealing with Employers	8
Conditional Solidarity - Attitudes Towards Support for Others During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic	8
European Youth Work Policy and Young People’s Experience of Open Access Youth Work	8
Conceptualising state-market-family relationships in comparative research: a conceptual goodness view on defamilization	8

Short-Term Health Policy Responses to Crisis and Uncertainty	8
Understanding Healthcare Social Enterprises: A New Public Governance Perspective	7
Precarious Work, Unemployment Benefit Generosity and Universal Basic Income Preferences: A Multilevel Study on 21 European Countries	7
Minimum Wage as a Social Policy Instrument: Evidence from Germany	7
Moving Social Policy from Mental Illness to Public Wellbeing	7
To Claim or Not to Claim: Investigating Non-Take-Up of Welfare Schemes Targeting Hong Kong Older Adults and the Stigma Attached to Them	7
Insiders under pressure: Flexibilization at the margins and wage inequality	7
Examining Veterans’ Interactions with the UK Social Security System through a Trauma-Informed Lens	7
Changes in Access to Australian Disability Support Benefits During a Period of Social Welfare Reform	7
Welfare and Conflict: Policy Failure in the Indonesian Cash Transfer	7
In Defence of Ordinary Help: Estimating the effect of Early Help/Family Support Spending on Children in Need Rates in England using ALT-SR	7
Opening universities’ doors for business? Marketization, the search for differentiation and employability in England	7
Social Investment, Employment and Policy and Institutional Complementarities: A Comparative Analysis across 26 OECD Countries	6
A Social Policy Case for a Four-Day Week	6
The role of social enterprises in facilitating labour market integration for people with disabilities: A convenient deflection from policy mainstreaming?	6
Financial inclusion in the digital banking age: Lessons from rural India	6
Who excludes? Young People’s Experience of Social Exclusion	6
Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State	6
Second Earners and In-Work Poverty in Europe	6
Social Movements and Social Policy: New Research Horizons	6
Preferences, vote choice, and the politics of social investment: Addressing the puzzle of unequal benefits of childcare provision	6
Placement Advisors as Innovators. How Professionals Use Enhanced Discretion in Germany’s Public Employment Services	6
The Lived Experience of Financialization at the UK Financial Fringe	5
The Implications of Political Trust for Supporting Public Transport	5
First step and last resort: One-Euro-Jobs after the reform	5
Empowering Lone Parents to Progress towards Employability	5
Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens’ Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway	5
Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison	5
“First the Grub, then the Morals”? Disentangling the Self-Interest and Ideological Drivers of Attitudes Towards Demanding Activation Policies in Belgium	5
“You have to work…but you can’t!”: Contradictions of the Active Labour Market Policies for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK	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
‘It’s Not Just About a Rainbow Lanyard’: How Structural Cisnormativity Undermines the Enactment of Anti-Discrimination Legislation in the Welsh Homelessness Service	5
The Problem of Success and Failure in Public-private Innovation Partnerships	5
Subsidized Household Services and Informal Employment: The Belgian Service Voucher Policy	4
Does Student Loan Debt Structure Young People’s Housing Tenure? Evidence from England	4
Subsidising rice and sugar? The Public Distribution System and Nutritional Outcomes in Andhra Pradesh, India	4
Scandinavian Approaches to Begging as a Policy Problem and the Double Insider/Outsider Status of Marginalized Intra-EU Migrants	4
Family as a Redistributive Principle of the Welfare State. The Case of Germany	4
Why Do Poor People Not Take up Benefits? Evidence from the Barcelona’s B-MINCOME Experiment	4
A time of need: Exploring the changing poverty risk facing larger families in the UK	4
How do you Shape a Market? Explaining Local State Practices in Adult Social Care	4
Does the family care best? Ideals of care in a familialistic care regime	4
Institutional Business Power: The Case of Ireland’s Private Home Care Providers	4
Necessities Laid Bare: An Examination of Possible Justifications for Peter Townsend’s Purely Relative Definition of Poverty	4
Wishing for More: Technological Change, the Rise of Involuntary Part-Time Employment and the Role of Active Labour Market Policies	4
Missing Incomes in the UK: Evidence and Policy Implications	4
A Fast Track to Social Rights? Passported Benefits and Administrative Burden	4
Functional assessments in the UK social security system: the experiences of claimants with mental health conditions	4
Income Insecurity and the Relational Coping Strategies of Low-Income Households in the UK	4
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 Ghana	4

Social Constructions of Children and Youth: Beyond Dependents and Deviants	4
How Welfare Professions Contribute to the Making of Welfare Governance: Professional Agency and Institutional Work in Elder Care	4
‘Mutatio Sub Pressura’: An Exploration of the Youth Policy Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Germany	4
A new era of social policy integration? Looking at the case of health, social care and housing	4
The role of social innovation policy in social service sector reform: Evidence from Hong Kong	4
A theory of informal and formal social citizenship and welfare	4
Hybrid entitlement: Welfare recipients’ perceptions of entitlement to social rights	3
The Polarising Worlds of Welfare: Political Orientations, Macroeconomic Context, and Support for Redistribution	3
The rise of big philanthropy in global social policy: implications for policy transfer and analysis	3
Improving Take-Up by Reaching Out to Potential Beneficiaries. Insights from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in Belgium	3
Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons	3
Working Less, Not More in a Workfare Programme: Group Solidarity, Informal Norms and Alternative Value Systems Amongst Activated Participants	3
Governing Researchers through Public Involvement	3
Which Active Labor Market Policies Work for Male Refugees? Evidence from Germany	3
When do municipalities smooth access for new social assistance claimants? Local determinants of municipal welfare agency’s implementation practices in Belgium	3
The Street-Level Organisation in-between Employer Needs and Client Needs: Creaming Users by Motivation in the Norwegian Employment and Welfare Service (NAV)	3
Open Policy Making in the UK – to Whom Might Policy Formulation be ‘Opening Up’?	3
Expanding Welfare State Borders: Trade Unions and the Introduction of Pro-Outsiders Social Policies in Italy and Argentina	3
Discrimination in marketized welfare services: a field experiment on Swedish schools	3
How Does the Provision of Childcare Services Affect Mothers’ Employment Intentions? Empirical Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment	3
Global Patterns of Contemporary Welfare States	3
The Distinctiveness of Smaller Voluntary Organisations Providing Welfare Services	3
The Politics of Change. Coalitional politics and labour market reforms during the sovereign debt crisis in Portugal	3
Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Co-Production Processes in the Disability Sector: Individual and Collection Action Views	3
Socio-Economic Performance of European Welfare States in Technology-Induced Employment Scenarios	3
The Rise and Fall of Social Housing? Housing Decommodification in Long-run Comparison	3
Government profiles as perceived by governments’ NPO partners in Chinese social service delivery	3
Income Loss and Leave Taking: Increased Financial Benefits and Fathers’ Parental Leave Use in Sweden	3