Social Policy & Administration

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Policy & Administration 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The ‘New Five Giants’—Conceptualising the challenges facing societal progress in the 21st century73
Perceptions of Poverty and Policy Preferences: The Contribution of Q Methodology27
Reforming Long‐Term Care Provision and Work in Post‐Pandemic Times: Scope and Drivers of Policy Change in the Spanish Decentralised System26
Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 202223
How does immigration affect welfare support in Korea?23
Jesse Hajer & John Loxley (2021). Social service, private gain: The political economy of social impact bonds, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0328‐4 (cloth), 20
Fertility‐based employment discrimination and family policy: Evidence from a field experiment17
Understanding migrants' attitudes towards state pension: The role of length of stay and settlement intention17
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion16
Austerity from the left: Social democratic parties in the shadow of the great recession. By BjörnBremer, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2023). £83.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978019287221015
Beveridge, Bevan and institutional change in the UK welfare state14
User‐Centred Design in Child Welfare: Importance of an Anti‐Racism Lens14
The politics of social policies in Portugal: Different responses in times of crises14
Social investment, labour market participation and public debt sustainability: An empirical analysis of European countries13
Upskilling as integration policy: Making the most of refugees' human capital in a context of skill shortage12
Looking beyond the workplace: Trade unions and the politics of poverty in Italy12
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Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme12
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea12
Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states11
Handbook on social protection systemsby EstherSchüring, MarkusLoewe (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. ISBN: 9781839109102; £375.00 (Hardback)11
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?11
Social security, full employment and voluntary action: The three pillars of William Beveridge's welfare society11
Food insecurity: The resilient, but “silent poverty” perspectives of older ethnic minority individuals within UK communities10
Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?10
Verification of policy information and citizen attitudes toward government under COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from survey experiment in South Korea10
Welfare state regimes and social policy resistance to fiscal consolidations10
Revisiting the role of social work in the substantial realization of social rights in local welfare systems: Transforming and changing the rules of the institutional game?10
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Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation9
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia9
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Social policy: A critical and intersectional analysis By Fiona WilliamsMickCarpenterPolicy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781509540396; £18.99 (pbk)9
Frontline social service as a battlefield: Insights from street‐level bureaucrats' interactions with violent clients9
Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom: Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable?8
Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state8
Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study8
Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform8
Screening for Asylum at Airports: The Implementation of the ‘Manifestly Unfounded’ Filter in France and Germany, 1980–20058
The Wage Stop and Restricting Benefit Income in the United Kingdom: Discretion, Wages and Hardship8
The impact of universal credit rollout on homelessness assistance need in Scottish local authorities7
The Use and Impact of Well‐Being Metrics on Policymaking: Developers' and Users' Perspectives in Scotland and Italy7
“You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims7
How to Fix the Welfare State? Some Ideas for Better Social Services. By PaulSpicker, Policy Press, 2022, 162pp. £27.997
Beyond financial constraints: The politics of Irish health system reform in the aftermath of the great recession7
The industrialisation thesis, revisited: Understanding welfare expansion in China through social expenditure data (2000–2019)7
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Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland7
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Reconsidering policy, complexity, governance and the state. KateCrowley, JennyStewart, AdrianKay, and Brian W.HeadBristol: Policy Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781447333135; £26.99 (EPub)6
The rise of food charity across Europe. HannahLambie‐Mumford and TiinaSilvastiBristol: Policy Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781447347583; £26.99 (EPub)5
Improving the Likelihood of Positive Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Considering Intersections Between Justice, Gender, and Trauma5
Protected against all odds? A mixed‐methods study on the risk of welfare sanctions for immigrants in Germany5
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TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states5
National health services of Western Europe: Challenges, reforms and future perspectives. By GuidoGiarelli, MikeSaks (Eds.), London: Routledge. 2024. £130.00; hardback. ISBN: 97803676895995
Fugitive coproduction: Conceptualising informal community practices in Scotland's hospitals5
National charitable fundraising for the NHS, 1948–20235
‘Money anxiety’: Understanding HE students' experiences of the cost‐of‐living crisis5
The Discretionary Power of Street‐Level Bureaucrats From the Perspective of Illusio5
To Comply or Not to Comply, That Is the Question: The Street‐Level Implementation of Jurisprudence by Migration Officers5
The Making of a LeftBehind Class Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation. by FredPowell, MargaretScanlon, PatrickLeahy, HilaryJenkinson and5
Christopher Deeming. Minimum income standards and reference budgets, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐5295‐2; pp 3515
The Beveridge report 80 years on: ‘Squalor’ and housing—‘A true goliath’4
Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship4
Left partisan politics and pension privatisation at the crossroads of political legacy and contemporary politics (1980–2017)4
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?4
Information, reflection, and successful job search: A labor market policy experiment4
Program Design to Ease Administrative Burden in Times of Crisis: An Evaluation of Two Emergency Aid Programs in Los Angeles4
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The moral, the political and social licence in digitally‐driven family policy and intervention: Parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families4
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Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £254
The politics of the welfare state in Turkey: How social movements and elite competition created a welfare state. By ErdemYörük, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2022. pp. 221. 29.25 USD (paper4
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe4
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Moral framings in the Australian parliamentary debate on drug testing of welfare recipients4
Introduction: 20 years of welfare reform in China (2000–2020): Challenges from developmentalism to COVID‐194
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Care earnings in the United States and 24 European countries: The role of social policy and labour market institutions4
How Do Non‐Standard Work and Labour Market Policy Spending Shape Preferences for Training Versus Unemployment Benefits in Budgetary Trade‐Offs?4
Framing Beveridge3
A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England: What was it meant to achieve?3
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Emergency welfare states in action: Social policy adaptations to COVID‐19 in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia3
Welfare conditionality and policy contingencies of school‐allowance retractions in Sweden3
Crisis in the UK National Health Service: What does it mean, and what are the consequences?3
Constrained ‘choices’: Optional familism and educational divides in work‐family arrangements3
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Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises3
Living with financial insecurity: Analysing the impact of the cost‐of‐living crisis on older ethnic minority people3
Do you know to whom you pay your taxes? The case of decentralised Spain3
Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm3
The ‘two lives’ of Esping‐Andersen and the revival of a research programme: Gender equality, employment and redistribution in contemporary social policy3
The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development3
Social rights in EU and its member states3
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Explaining Variation in Decision‐Making Authority for Care Managers in a Decentralised Welfare State3
Work and alienation in the platform economy. Amazon and the power of organisation. By SarrahKassem, Bristol University Press. 2023. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN: 97815292265463
Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south3
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Ratings, rankings and managing numbers: Professionals' perspectives on user surveys in Swedish nursing home care2
The divisive state of social policy: The ‘bedroom tax,’ austerity and housing insecurity by Kelly BogueBristol: Policy press, 2019. ISBN: 9781447350538; £60 (Hbk)2
The culture of education regimes: Efficiency, equality and governance in education and social policy2
A job trial subsidy for youth: Cheap labour or a screening device?2
Does the unemployment trap still exist? The case of the Italian minimum income scheme2
Women–state relations: The gendered politics of social protection provisioning in Zambia2
Allowance or service: Public attitudes toward childcare‐related family policies in China2
What Can Be Learned at the Intersection of Crisis Management and Administrative Burdens? Evidence From a Systematic Review of the Governance of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme During 2
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Social protection and state‐citizen relations: A review of the literature2
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“I never planned for it”—Exploration of expectations about caring for older parents2
Policy entrepreneurship at the street level: Understanding the effect of the individualNissimCohenCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781108818865; £15 (Pbk)2
Alternative targeting methods for social assistance programs: Evidence from Tunisia2
A scooping review of Scandinavian studies of sick‐listed' and social insurance officers' experiences of their encounters'2
Addressing hardship and climate change: Citizens' perceptions of costs of living, social inequalities and priorities for policy2
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Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries2
Welfare service reforms: Arab minority welfare bureau managers assess the outcomes2
A path to professional capability: The Career Start Programme in Bulgaria as a strategy to youth development2
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Exploring the politics of strain: Crime and welfare in remote Indigenous Australia2
An ‘interface first’ bureaucracy: Interface design, universal credit and the digital welfare state2
Decentring European governanceMarkBevirRyanPhillipsAbingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019, ISBN: 9780367661069; £36.99 (Pbk)2
Moving Beyond Regulation: Cross‐Sectoral Coordination in Providing Holistic Care in For‐Profit Residential Homes for Disabled People2
The Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on School‐to‐School Transitions. A Study of Lower Secondary School Graduates2
Nordic earner‐carer politics: A comparative and historical analysis (1st edition). By Anne LiseEllingsæter, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024. £95 (hardback). ISBN: 97818022070712
Living Wages in Latin America: An Assessment of Disparities and a Stakeholder Roadmap for Action2
Swedish unions and obligatory complementary income insurance: Securing unemployment benefits in a changing welfare state1
Dealing with drift: Comparing social care reform in the four nations of the UK1
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The operation of the social support sector serving siblings of people with disabilities: A cross‐country analysis1
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Women, Vulnerabilities and Welfare Service Systems, Routledge Advances in Social work. Kuronen, M., Virokannas, E., & Salovaara, U.Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2021.1
The quest for a divided welfare state: Sweden in the era of privatization. JohnLapidusBasingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2019. ISBN 9783030247836; £69.99 (Hbk)1
Corporations and the cost of living crisis: Corporate involvement in UK food charity1
The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor: A 200‐year History. StewartLansley. Bristol: Policy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781447363217; £19.99 (Pbk)1
From “what works” to “making it work”: A practice perspective on evidence‐based standardization in frontline service organizations1
Does capping social security harm health? A natural experiment in the UK1
Social policy in the Islamic world. Ali AkbarTajmazinaniBasingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. ISBN: 9783030577537; £71.50 (ebk)1
Policy Failure in the Lives of Young Disabled People: In Search of Good Transitions1
Not seeing the elephant in the room: How policy discourses shape frontline work with child poverty1
Social citizenship in an age of welfare regionalism: The state of the social union. By MarkSimpson, Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing, Hart. 2022. pp. 241. £76.50. 198 + xxi pp1
Women's management in local government: The effects of substantive representation on welfare service efficiency1
Markets or unions? De‐unionisation and German firms' provision of flexible working‐time policies from 2002 to 20161
Means‐Tested Welfare Benefits and Subjective Well‐Being Through Time: Does Clients' Life Satisfaction Recover?1
Determinants of the Unconditional Basic Income Acceptance Among German Citizens: An Empirical Analysis Based on Innovation Resistance Theory1
The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective1
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‘Show me you're trying, that's all…’: Exploring the discursive impact of punishments and incentives in the Welsh homelessness system as ‘controlled conditionalities’1
A history of the intermediate tier in the English NHS: Centre, region, periphery1
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Intersectionality, agency and take‐up of benefits among families living in poverty1
Monetary redress for abuse in state care. By StephenWinter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. ISBN: 9781009082662. Open Access (online) ISBN: 9781316514160; 223 pages; £85 (Hbk)1
Control pliers in principal‐agent relations: An investigation of hardship commissions in the German asylum administration1
The multi‐dimensional politics of education policy in the knowledge economy: The case of Italy (1996–2008)1
‘It's the kids that suffer’: Exploring how the UK's benefit cap and two‐child limit harm children1
Active representation and equal treatment: The influence of bureaucrats' social background on discrimination1
Choosing not to choose—Patients' justification of a disengaged choice of primary care provider1
Mobilizing voluntary action in the UK: Learning from the pandemic. By IreneHardill, JurdenGrotz, LauraCrawford (Eds.), Bristol: Policy Press Shorts. 2022. pp. 202. £14.99 (paperback) or 1447367239OA (1
Let's talk about our feelings: Emotional labour of community practice in times of pandemic1
Towards Social Europe? Obstacles and opportunities in the multi‐level governance of welfare states1
Human Rights and the Care of Older People: Dignity, Vulnerability, and the Anti‐Torture NormBy MaeveO'Rourke, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 242 pp. £90 (Hbk). ISBN: 9780191953002. 1
Adaptive social protection in Indonesia: Stress‐testing the effect of a natural disaster on poverty and vulnerability1
Active stewardship in healthcare: Lessons from China's health policy reforms1
Implementation structures at work. Exploring implementation and de‐implementation attempts regarding Housing First and Individual Placement and Support1
Street‐level bureaucrats' discretion between individual and institutional factors: The analysis of the minimum income policy implementation in two Italian regions1
Citizens' expectations about social protection in multilevel governance: The interplay between national and supranational institutions1
Financing and Provision of Long‐Term Care in Europe: Reflections on Intergenerational Solidarity in Care for Older People1
The market made us do it: Public procurement and collaborative labour market inclusion governance from below1
Comparison of Policy Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic. Does It Reproduce the Old Patterns?1
Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security1
The politics of disaggregated family policy: The role of party ideology and women's political representation in governments1
Short‐term changes in financial situation have immediate mental health consequences: Implications for social policy1
Development and validation of the supervision practice in human services scale1
The hidden side of Social Europe: Revealing welfare Euroscepticism through focus group discussions1
Do carer tasks predict carer employment? Evidence from the Survey of Adult Carers in England1
Big data and the welfare state. How the information revolution threatens social solidarity. TorbenIversen and PhilippRehm. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN: 1
The European Pillar of Social Rights: How strategic agency shaped the European Union's flagship social initiative1
The world politics of social investment: Volume II. Julian L.Garritzmann (Ed.), SiljaHäusermann (Ed.), BrunoPalier (Ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. £64 (hardback). ISBN: 9780191
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Old‐age poverty in a pension latecomer: The impact of basic pension expansions in South Korea0
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The long term relationship between childhood Medicaid expansions and severe chronic conditions in adulthood0
Do Justifications Affect Tolerance for Administrative Burdens? Evidence From a Survey Experiment Among Policymakers0
A research agenda for governance. By B. GuyPeters, JonPierre, EvaSørensen, & JacobTorfing. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. ISBN: 9781788117982; £80.00 (Hbk)0
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Work inclusion of marginalised groups in a troubled city district—How can active labour market policies improve?0
Does multiculturalism help immigrant youth engage in school? Multicultural paradox in the welfare state0
Is there a trade‐off between housing and pension system generosity? Empirical evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study0
Three Philosophies of Person‐Centred Care, From the Perspectives of Care Workers and Managers Supporting Older People0
Comparing the Impacts of Czech ALMP Training Programmes Implemented During the 2020 COVID‐19 Pandemic to Programmes in 2016 and 20190
Follow the hand that feeds you? The effects of non‐governmental cash transfers on citizenship0
In Search of a Connection: Public Procurement and Active Labour Market Policies in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia0
‘Nearly gave up on it to be honest’: Utilisation of individualised budgets by people with psychosocial disability within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme0
Central coordination, regional competition, and local protectionism: Social decentralisation in China's long‐term care reform0
Welfare developmentalism with interactive central–local relations: Understanding the recent expansion in pension coverage in China0
Profiles Among Women Without a Paid Job and Social Benefits: An Intersectional Perspective Using Dutch Population Register Data0
The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain. Class Struggle, Labor Market Restructuring and Welfare ReformBy JayWiggan, Bristol: Policy Press, 2024. 282 pp. (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐4473‐6611‐90
Erratum to “Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights”0
Introduction to special issue: States, citizens and social protection in Africa0
Crises of the welfare state, resilience, and pessimism of the intellect0
‘I've probably risk assessed this myself’: Choice, control and participant co‐regulation in a disability individualised funding scheme0
Theorizing notions of the participation of people in poverty in social policymaking: Policing, politics and subjectification0
Is Nordic elder care facing a (new) collaborative turn?0
Spaces of subsidiarity: A comparative inquiry into the social agenda of Cohesion Policy0
A Decade in Transition: Forms of Recalibration in the Italian Regional Health Systems0
The politics of sanctioning the poor through welfare conditionality: Revealing causal mechanisms in Uruguay0
How do right‐wing populist majoritarian governments redistribute? Evidence from Poland, 2005–20190
Trajectories among recipients of social assistance in Norway: A local approach0
The Nehru‐Era Economic History and Thought & Their Lasting ImpactBy A.Panagariya, New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 2024. $49.45 (Hardback). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐777461‐80
Collaboration Through a Computer Screen: Migrant Integration Services and the Challenges of Co‐Producing Services Online0
What policy functions are reflected in the distribution of financial support for parents by child age and birth order? An analysis of 28 European countries0
Same same but different? Comparing institutional performance in the long‐term care systems of Japan and South Korea0
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Health systems in the COVID‐19 crises: Comparative patterns of NHS satisfaction and preferences for public health action in Scotland and England0
Reversed socioeconomic pattern in the costs of caring regarding well‐being and paid work among women in Sweden0
Indentured: Benefit deductions, debt recovery and welfare disciplining0
Signs of the gender revolution's second phase? Historical and cross‐national development of fathers' leave provisions0
How divided is the attitudinal context for policymaking? Changes in public attitudes to the welfare state, inequality and immigration over two decades in Britain0
Two faces of activation attitudes. Explaining citizens' diverging views on demanding versus enabling activation policies0
A nation in crisis: Division, conflict and capitalism in the United Kingdom. By NevilleKirk, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2024. £21.99. ISBN: 9781350374508 (pbk)0
Democratic contestation, organised labour, and pension reform in Ghana and Malawi0
Comparing long‐term care systems: A multi‐dimensional, actor‐centred typology0
Informal social capital building in local employment services: Its role in the labour market integration of disadvantaged young people0
StefanDercon, Gambling on development: Why some countries win and others lose. Hurts & Company, 2022. ISBN: 9781787385627; £25 (Hbk)0
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The Routledge handbook of the welfare state. Greve, B.London: Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9780367659875; £27.99 (Pbk)0
Who needs cash? The deservingness perceptions of Brazilian civil servants in cash‐based social policy implementation0
Predictability and transparency of working conditions for food delivery platform workers across selected EU countries0
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The world politics of social investment. Volume 1: Welfare states in the knowledge economy. By J.Garritzmann, S.Häusermann, B.Palier (Eds.), Oxford University Press. 2022. pp. 488. £57.00 (Hardback). 0
Cash transfers after electoral violence: A case study of citizen‐state relations in Nakuru, Kenya0
Reshaping state–citizen relationships through donor‐designed targeting systems in Lesotho and Malawi0
Social protection, community participation and state‐citizen relations: Evidence from a cash transfer program in south‐central Somalia0
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The two‐child limit and fertility decision making: When policy narratives and lived experiences collide0
Fathering and poverty: Uncovering men's participation in low‐income family life0
Care and Minimum Income Policies: When Welfare Conditionality Meets Unpaid Care Work0
HartleyDean (2020). Understanding human need, 2nd edition, Bristol: Policy Press. ISBN 9781447341987, Pbk, £25.990
Policy success: What is the role of implementation support programmes?0
Everyday sense making and the discursive delineation of social policy space in Zambia0
Collaboration for Impact: Lessons from the field. John Butcher and David GilchristCanberra: ANU Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781760463960; £41.09 (Pbk)0
Excluded workers and exempted employers: A qualitative study on domestic workers' access to social protection in the Netherlands0
Governance agility in reception of war refugees from Ukraine: The case of Wrocław, Poland0
Does digital government hollow out the essence of street‐level bureaucracy? A systematic literature review of how digital tools' foster curtailment, enablement and continuation of street‐level decisio0
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