Social Policy & Administration

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The next generation EU: An analysis of the dimensions of conflict behind the deal	76
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis	76
Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Canada and the United States: Explaining policy variations between two liberal welfare state regimes	68
Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	60
Inequalities and poverty risks in old age across Europe: The double‐edged income effect of pension systems	57
Recent pension reforms in Europe: More challenges, new directions. An overview	56
Nordic welfare states—still standing or changed by the COVID‐19 crisis?	56
COVID‐19, the Great Recession and social policy: Is this time different?	53
The COVID‐19 crisis and policy responses by continental European welfare states	53
Digital coping: How frontline workers cope with digital service encounters	45
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis in Central and Eastern Europe	45
Common shock, different paths? Comparing social policy responses to COVID‐19 in the UK and Ireland	40
Extending working lives: How policies shape retirement and labour market participation of older workers	37
In the eye of the storm…again! Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Southern Europe	35
Withstanding the plague: Institutional resilience of the East Asian welfare state	23
Comparing long‐term care systems: A multi‐dimensional, actor‐centred typology	21
Informal social protection: A conceptual synthesis	19
Fifty years of welfare state generosity	18
From austerity‐conditionality towards a new investment‐led growth strategy: Social Europe after the Recovery and Resilience Facility	18
The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development	17
The consequences of non‐standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective	15
Flexibility in individual funding schemes: How well did Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme support remote learning for students with disability during COVID‐19?	14
Carrots or sticks? A multilevel analysis of active labour market policies and non‐standard employment in Europe	13
Changing the healthcare financing paradigm: Domestic actors and international organizations in the agenda setting for diffusion of social health insurance in post‐communist Central and Eastern Europe	12
Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries	12

Managing precarity: Food bank use by low‐income women workers in a changing welfare regime	12
Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security	12
Frontline social service as a battlefield: Insights from street‐level bureaucrats' interactions with violent clients	12
Efficiency and sustainability in municipal social policies	10
Inequalities in pensions and retirement from a life course perspective: An introduction	10
‘Nearly gave up on it to be honest’: Utilisation of individualised budgets by people with psychosocial disability within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme	10
Integrating development aid into social policy: Lessons on cooperation and its challenges learned from the example of health care in Kyrgyzstan	10
The market made us do it: Public procurement and collaborative labour market inclusion governance from below	10
A mechanism‐based approach to the comparison of national pension systems in Vietnam and Sri Lanka	9
Translating social policy ideas: The Beveridge report, transnational diffusion, andpost‐warwelfare state development in Canada, Denmark, and France	9
Is Nordic elder care facing a (new) collaborative turn?	9
Measuring and framing support for universal basic income	9
When policy entrepreneurs fail: Explaining the failure of long‐term care reforms in Poland	9
From “what works” to “making it work”: A practice perspective on evidence‐based standardization in frontline service organizations	9
Moral framings in the Australian parliamentary debate on drug testing of welfare recipients	8
Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south	8
Politicalized empowered learning and complex policy implementation: Targeted poverty alleviation in China's county governments	8
Buying for good: Altruism, ethical consumerism and social policy	8
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	8
Social investments in the knowledge economy: The politics of inclusive, stratified, and targeted reforms across the globe	8
No activation without reconciliation? The interplay between ALMP and ECEC in relation to women's employment, unemployment and inactivity in 30 OECD countries, 1985–201	8
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	8
Active stewardship in healthcare: Lessons from China's health policy reforms	8
Education as social policy: New tensions in maturing knowledge economies	7
Pension reforms, the generational welfare contract and preferences for pro‐old welfare policies in Europe	7
Affects of policy design: The case of young carers in the Care Act 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014	7
Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	7
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	7
A critical review of cost‐effectiveness research in children's social care: What have we learnt so far?	7
Central coordination, regional competition, and local protectionism: Social decentralisation in China's long‐term care reform	6
The EPSR and the Next Generation EU: Heralding a reconfiguration of social protection in South Europe?	6
TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states	6
Central‐local tensions in the decentralization of social policies: Street‐level bureaucrats and social practices in the Netherlands	6
Fugitive coproduction: Conceptualising informal community practices in Scotland's hospitals	6
Between affordable welfare and affordable food: Internationalized food subsidy reforms in Egypt and Tunisia	6
The implosion of the Dutch surveillance welfare state	5
Individual need and societal claims: Challenging the understanding of universalism versus selectivism in social policy	5
Bureaucratic conflict between transnational actor coalitions: The diffusion of British National Vocational Qualifications to China	5
Same same but different? Comparing institutional performance in the long‐term care systems of Japan and South Korea	5
Evaluating social policies: Do methodological approaches determine the policy impact?	5
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme	5
The power of ideas in policymaking processes: The role of institutionalised knowledge production in state bureaucracies	5
Who deserves what and why during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Applying the CARIN principles of deservingness to the American welfare state	5
Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship	5
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation	5
Buffering national welfare states in hard times: The politics of EU capacity‐building in the social policy domain	5
How does self‐employment affect pension income? A comparative analysis of European welfare states	5
The employment of people with lived experience of disability in Australian disability services	5
Old‐age poverty in a pension latecomer: The impact of basic pension expansions in South Korea	4
Women's management in local government: The effects of substantive representation on welfare service efficiency	4

Signs of the gender revolution's second phase? Historical and cross‐national development of fathers' leave provisions	4
Information, reflection, and successful job search: A labor market policy experiment	4
Excluded workers and exempted employers: A qualitative study on domestic workers' access to social protection in the Netherlands	4
Implementation structures at work. Exploring implementation and de‐implementation attempts regarding Housing First and Individual Placement and Support	4
Cross‐sectoral frontline delivery of welfare‐to‐work services for young adults with complex problems in Norway	4
Gender, welfare state regimes and social policy beyond advanced capitalism: Pathways to decommodification in middle‐income countries	4
How does she do it all? Effects of education on reconciliation of employment and informal caregiving among Austrian women	4
Social policy reform driven by crises: Promoting and reshaping social policy during the SARS and COVID‐19 pandemics in China	4
Social security or insecurity? The experience of welfare participation by financially vulnerable households in the Netherlands	4
Are attitudes in employees of public employment service in line with the principles of individual placement and support? A questionnaire‐based survey	4
Multi‐level governance and central‐local tensions: The issue of local discretion in long‐term care policy in Italy	4
Follow the hand that feeds you? The effects of non‐governmental cash transfers on citizenship	4
Do governments account for gender when designing their social protection systems? Findings from an analysis of national social protection strategies	4
Dealing with drift: Comparing social care reform in the four nations of the UK	4
Does capping social security harm health? A natural experiment in the UK	4
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises	4
Welfare contracting with Chinese socialist characteristics: Experience of the Bohai Bay Economic Rim, Northern China	3
Protected against all odds? A mixed‐methods study on the risk of welfare sanctions for immigrants in Germany	3
The industrialisation thesis, revisited: Understanding welfare expansion in China through social expenditure data (2000–2019)	3
Accounting for what and to whom? Accountability tensions in collaborations addressing long‐term unemployment	3
Let's talk about our feelings: Emotional labour of community practice in times of pandemic	3
Emergency welfare states in action: Social policy adaptations to COVID‐19 in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	3
The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective	3
Education and ignorance in the UK 80 years after Beveridge: The role of government and equality of opportunity	3
Towards a more all‐inclusive evaluation of interventions for unemployed youth: A longitudinal investigation of participant, programme, relational and contextual factors	3
How divided is the attitudinal context for policymaking? Changes in public attitudes to the welfare state, inequality and immigration over two decades in Britain	3
Markets or unions? De‐unionisation and German firms' provision of flexible working‐time policies from 2002 to 2016	3
The provision of work–life balance practices across welfare states and industries and their impact on extraordinary turnover	3
The two‐child limit and fertility decision making: When policy narratives and lived experiences collide	3
Policy success: What is the role of implementation support programmes?	3
The ‘New Five Giants’—Conceptualising the challenges facing societal progress in the 21st century	3
Education as a tool of social equality?	3
‘I've probably risk assessed this myself’: Choice, control and participant co‐regulation in a disability individualised funding scheme	3
Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform	3
The politics of disaggregated family policy: The role of party ideology and women's political representation in governments	3
The multi‐dimensional politics of education policy in the knowledge economy: The case of Italy (1996–2008)	3
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 decisio	3
Choose your battles: How civil society organisations choose context‐specific goals and activities to fight for immigrant welfare rights in Malaysia and Argentina	3
Introduction: 20 years of welfare reform in China (2000–2020): Challenges from developmentalism to COVID‐19	2
The implementation of social protection in a conservative African welfare regime: The values and beliefs of local state officials in Botswana	2
Who needs cash? The deservingness perceptions of Brazilian civil servants in cash‐based social policy implementation	2
Social protection and state‐citizen relations: A review of the literature	2
Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study	2
Towards a new era in the governance of integrated activation: A systematic review of the literature on the governance of welfare benefits and employment‐related services in Europe (2010–21)	2
Crisis in the UK National Health Service: What does it mean, and what are the consequences?	2
Including migrant skills in a knowledge economy: The politics of recognition of foreign qualifications, work experience and industry courses	2
Which employers have refugee employees—And which do not? Employer typologies developed through hierarchical cluster analyses	2
‘Show me you're trying, that's all…’: Exploring the discursive impact of punishments and incentives in theWelshhomelessness system as ‘controlled conditionalities’	2
Care earnings in the United States and 24 European countries: The role of social policy and labour market institutions	2
Exploring the politics of strain: Crime and welfare in remote Indigenous Australia	2
Governance agility in reception of war refugees from Ukraine: The case of Wrocław, Poland	2
Widening double dualisation? Labour market inequalities and national social policy responses in Western Europe during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
Social class bias in welfare sanctioning judgements: Experimental evidence from a nationally representative sample	2
Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state	2
Generation rent on the housing treadmill: A study on South Korea's housing allowance programmes and recurring precarity	2
Moving beyond stereotype: A qualitative study of long‐standing recipients of the Indonesian conditional cash transfers (CCT/PKH)	2
Digital policy to disability employment? An ecosystem perspective on China and Australia	2
Not seeing the elephant in the room: How policy discourses shape frontline work with child poverty	2
Introduction to special issue: States, citizens and social protection in Africa	2
Is there a trade‐off between housing and pension system generosity? Empirical evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study	2
Knowledge, skills or social mobility? Citizens' perceptions of the purpose of education	2
Guiding principles for social security policy: Outcomes from a bottom‐up approach	2
From policy to politics? Exploring feedback effects of social protection on state‐citizen relations in Ghana	2
A scooping review of Scandinavian studies of sick‐listed' and social insurance officers' experiences of their encounters'	2
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia	2
Citizens' expectations about social protection in multilevel governance: The interplay between national and supranational institutions	2
Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states	2
Deregulation, quality and access—The case of legal professionals in Poland	2
Reversed socioeconomic pattern in the costs of caring regarding well‐being and paid work among women in Sweden	2
Social work and the state: Perspectives and practice	2
The operation of the social support sector serving siblings of people with disabilities: A cross‐country analysis	2
Modern welfare in the United Kingdom is a universal (dis)credit to Beveridge. Is it time for a basic income?	1
Feeling insecure and excluding immigrants: Relationship between subjective risks and welfare chauvinism	1
Do you know to whom you pay your taxes? The case of decentralised Spain	1
Welfare developmentalism with interactive central–local relations: Understanding the recent expansion in pension coverage in China	1
The moral, the political and social licence in digitally‐driven family policy and intervention: Parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families	1
Fertility‐based employment discrimination and family policy: Evidence from a field experiment	1
The politics of sanctioning the poor through welfare conditionality: Revealing causal mechanisms in Uruguay	1
Variations in Social Europe? National political parties' positions on EU‐level social regulations	1
Whatever happened to the Child Trust Fund? The abandonment of universal savings for UK children	1

Street‐level bureaucrats' discretion between individual and institutional factors: The analysis of the minimum income policy implementation in two Italian regions	1
Ratings, rankings and managing numbers: Professionals' perspectives on user surveys in Swedish nursing home care	1
Policy representation of everyday harm experienced by people with disability	1
On the effects of active labour market policies among individuals reporting to have severe mental health problems	1
Creating relationship‐based practice in youth employment services—Converting policy intentions to practical program design	1
Disease	1
Crisis? What crisis? Social policy when crises are and are not crises in Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	1
Adaptive social protection in Indonesia: Stress‐testing the effect of a natural disaster on poverty and vulnerability	1
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea	1
Analysis of the effect of social capital on rural household poverty	1
Beveridge, Bevan and institutional change in the UK welfare state	1
In search of a job—But which one? How unemployed people revise their occupational expectations	1
Social rights in EU and its member states	1
The hidden side of Social Europe: Revealing welfare Euroscepticism through focus group discussions	1
European long‐term care marketisation: A political economy framework	1
Different understandings of welfare benefits among the Dutch public: A focus group study	1
Beveridge on idleness	1
A job trial subsidy for youth: Cheap labour or a screening device?	1
Classifying participatory methods in social care regulation	1
Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland	1
Living wages in Portugal: In search of dignity in a polarised labour market	1
Predictability and transparency of working conditions for food delivery platform workers across selected EU countries	1
Crises of the welfare state, resilience, and pessimism of the intellect	1
Quantity over quality? How economic factors and welfare state interventions affected job insecurity and job quality before, during and after the economic crises	1
Upskilling as integration policy: Making the most of refugees' human capital in a context of skill shortage	1
Re‐establishing needed limits: European competition policy's role in European healthcare systems and the lessons of the Dôvera case	1
Development and validation of the supervision practice in human services scale	1
Inclusive citizenship and degenderization: A comparison of state support in 22 European countries	1
Framing Beveridge	1
Cash transfers after electoral violence: A case study of citizen‐state relations in Nakuru, Kenya	1
Exit from open‐ended social benefits into employment: Access to work, active labour market policies and work intensity	1
The culture of education regimes: Efficiency, equality and governance in education and social policy	1
Theorizing notions of the participation of people in poverty in social policymaking: Policing, politics and subjectification	1
Everyday sense making and the discursive delineation of social policy space in Zambia	1
Activation through marketisation as a process of ignorancing	1
Labour market gender gaps and childcare policies in countries with different social investment strategies	1
Choice and opportunity on the welfare care market: An experimental evaluation of decision‐making in a context of individual funding policy	1
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Reshaping state–citizen relationships through donor‐designed targeting systems in Lesotho and Malawi	1
Do carer tasks predict carer employment? Evidence from the Survey of Adult Carers in England	0
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Robots and immigrants: Who is stealing jobs? By K.Maronitis, D.Pencheva, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2022. pp. 156. £26.99. ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐1271‐6	0
Public Rights Orientations and Views on Long‐Term Care Options for Children in the Child Protection System: An Analysis of Representative Samples of Adults in California, USA and Norway	0
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Critical juncture and historical legacies: Insights and methods. By Collier, D., & Munck, G. L. (Eds.), London: The Rowman & Little‐field Publishing Group, Inc.2022. pp. 1–473. $92.70 (Hardcov	0
Disability and care: State, society and invisible lives. UpaliChakravartiNew Delhi: Sage publications India, 2018. ISBN: 9789352807741, £32.99 (Hbk)	0
A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England: What was it meant to achieve?	0
Buying and selling the poor: Inside Australia's privatised welfare‐to‐work marketSiobhanO'Sullivan, MichaelMcGann, MarkConsidineSydney University Press, Sydney (2021). ISBN: 9781743327869	0
Trafficking chains: Modern slavery in society. By SylviaWalby, Karen A.Shire, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024. 3 £27.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐3235‐6	0
Public understandings of welfare and the economy: Who knows what and does it relate to political attitudes?	0
Want: Still the easiest giant to attack?	0
Democratic contestation, organised labour, and pension reform in Ghana and Malawi	0
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Social policy in a political vacuum: Women's experiences of hunger during the Cost‐of‐Living Crisis in Northern Ireland	0
De‐professionalism and austerity: Challenges for the public sector. NigelMalinBristol: Policy Press, 2020. ISBN: 9789811507793; £26.99 (Pbk)	0
The settlement house movement revisited: A transnational history: John Gal, Stefan Köngeter and Sarah VicaryBristol, Policy Press, 2021. ISBN: 978‐1447354239; £60.00 (Pbk)	0
De Gruyter handbook of contemporary welfare states. BentGreve (Ed.), Berlin: De Gruyter. 2022. £105.30 (hbk). ISBN: 9783110721249	0
Subnational policy innovation: The birth of social pensions in Mexico	0
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),	0
Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017‐2018, by Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikanno. 2021. ISBN: 978‐1‐83910‐484‐8	0
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Control pliers in principal‐agent relations: An investigation of hardship commissions in the German asylum administration	0
Determinants of the Unconditional Basic Income Acceptance Among German Citizens: An Empirical Analysis Based on Innovation Resistance Theory	0
Social policy review 31: Analysis and debate in social policyElkeHeins, JamesRees, and CatherineNeedham. Bristol: Policy Press, 2019. ISBN: 1447343981; £75 (Hbk)	0
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 (paper	0
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)	0
Exploring the practical relevance of food aid rationales in Belgium: Lessons from applying in‐kind transfer valuation methods	0
Empowering the poor through financial and social inclusion in Africa an Islamic perspective. By Abdelrahman Elzahi SaaidAli (Ed.), Switzerland: Springer Nature. 2022. £130.00 (pbk). ISBN: 978303100925	0
Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2022	0
Social policy in the Islamic world. Ali AkbarTajmazinaniBasingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. ISBN: 9783030577537; £71.50 (ebk)	0
The unequal pandemic: COVID‐19 and health inequalities. By ClareBambra, JuliaLynch, Katherine E.Smith, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2021. £9.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1447361237	0
Welfare to work in contemporary European welfare states: Legal, sociological and philosophical perspectives on justice and domination. AnjaEleveld, ThomasKampenJosienArtsBristol: Policy Press, 2019. <	0
The politics of scale in policy: Scalecraft and education governance, by NataliePapanastasiouBristol: Policy Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781447343851; £60 (Hbk)	0
Democratic professionalism in public services, JaneLethbridgeBristol: Policy Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781447342106; £23.99 (Pbk)	0
Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £25	0
Welfare conditionality and policy contingencies of school‐allowance retractions in Sweden	0
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The Four Lenses of Population Aging: Planning for the Future in Canada's Provinces. By PatrikMarier, University of Toronto Press, 2021, 368 Pages. £44.95 (Pbk)	0
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Understanding Path‐Departing Changes in Childcare Policy: The Influence of Self‐Undermining Policy Feedback	0
The quest for a divided welfare state: Sweden in the era of privatization. JohnLapidusBasingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2019. ISBN 9783030247836; £69.99 (Hbk)	0
A history of the intermediate tier in the English NHS: Centre, region, periphery	0
The case for universal basic incomeLouiseHaaghCambridge, Polity, 2019. ISBN: 9781509522965, £12.99 (Pbk)	0
Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights	0
A research agenda for governance. By B. GuyPeters, JonPierre, EvaSørensen, & JacobTorfing. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. ISBN: 9781788117982; £80.00 (Hbk)	0
State childcare provision in China: Subnational variations and localized policy contexts across 31 mainland provinces	0
All in, against all odds. Path shift in family policy via cross‐party agreement: the case of the Single Universal Allowance reform in Italy	0
How does immigration affect welfare support in Korea?	0
Collaboration for Impact: Lessons from the field. John Butcher and David GilchristCanberra: ANU Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781760463960; £41.09 (Pbk)	0
Visualising the 2020s UK cost‐of‐living crisis	0
Bureaucratic Manoeuvres: The contested administration of the unemployed, JohnGrundyToronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781487504472; £41.99 (Hbk)	0
Palgrave handbook of co‐production of public services and outcomes. Elke Loeffler, Tony BovairdBasingstoke: Palgrave, 2021. ISBN: 9783030537050; £127.50 (Ebk).	0
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)	0
Clients, Consumers or Citizens? The Privatisation of Adult Social Care in EnglandBobHudsonBristol: Policy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781447355700; £24.99 (pbk)	0