Social Policy & Administration

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COVID‐19 and care homes in England: What happened and why?	75
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis	70
The next generation EU: An analysis of the dimensions of conflict behind the deal	67
Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Canada and the United States: Explaining policy variations between two liberal welfare state regimes	58
The unequal distribution of administrative burden: A framework and an illustrative case study for understanding variation in people's experience of burdens	53
Nordic welfare states—still standing or changed by the COVID‐19 crisis?	50
Disabled people in Britain and the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic	48
COVID‐19, the Great Recession and social policy: Is this time different?	47
Inequalities and poverty risks in old age across Europe: The double‐edged income effect of pension systems	44
The COVID‐19 crisis and policy responses by continental European welfare states	44
Recent pension reforms in Europe: More challenges, new directions. An overview	41
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the COVID‐19 crisis in Central and Eastern Europe	39
Governing new authoritarianism: Populism, nationalism and radical welfare reforms in Hungary and Poland	38
Common shock, different paths? Comparing social policy responses to COVID‐19 in the UK and Ireland	34
Digital coping: How frontline workers cope with digital service encounters	33
Extending working lives: How policies shape retirement and labour market participation of older workers	32
In the eye of the storm…again! Social policy responses to COVID‐19 in Southern Europe	31
The causes of welfare state expansion in democratic middle‐income countries: A literature review	27
Withstanding the plague: Institutional resilience of the East Asian welfare state	20
The disembedded digital economy: Social protection for new economy employment in China	20
We have our dignity, yeah? Scrutiny under suspicion: Experiences of welfare conditionality in the Irish social protection system	18
State‐NGOs relationship in the context of China contracting out social services	18
The complementary roles between clientelism and familism in social policy development	17
Comparing long‐term care systems: A multi‐dimensional, actor‐centred typology	16
Reducing unemployment? Examining the interplay between active labour market policies	14

Informal social protection: A conceptual synthesis	14
Decent work for sustainable development in post‐crisis Nepal: Social policy challenges and a way forward	14
Flexibility in individual funding schemes: How well did Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme support remote learning for students with disability during COVID‐19?	13
The growth of private home care providers in Europe: The case of Ireland	13
Labour market liberalization and the rise of dualism in Europe as the interplay between governments, trade unions and the economy	12
Contextualised resistance: The mediating power of paradigmatic frameworks	12
Fifty years of welfare state generosity	11
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	11
The consequences of non‐standard working and marital biographies for old age income in Europe: Contrasting the individual and the household perspective	10
Carrots or sticks? A multilevel analysis of active labour market policies and non‐standard employment in Europe	10
Integrating development aid into social policy: Lessons on cooperation and its challenges learned from the example of health care in Kyrgyzstan	10
Mediating the claim? How ‘local ecosystems of support’ shape the operation and experience of UK social security	10
Addressing loneliness and social isolation amongst elderly people through local co‐production in Japan	9
Market stewardship of quasi‐markets by street level bureaucrats: The role of local area coordinators in the Australian personalisation system	9
Measuring and framing support for universal basic income	9
Managing precarity: Food bank use by low‐income women workers in a changing welfare regime	9
Frontline social service as a battlefield: Insights from street‐level bureaucrats' interactions with violent clients	9
Why targeting matters: The apprenticeship program for youth in the Czech Republic	9
Linking macro‐level mechanisms to street‐level accountability practices. A cross‐national case study of street‐level accountability of social workers in government funded homeless shelters	9
From austerity‐conditionality towards a new investment‐led growth strategy: Social Europe after the Recovery and Resilience Facility	9
Punitive welfare reform and claimant mental health: The impact of benefit sanctions on anxiety and depression	9
‘Nearly gave up on it to be honest’: Utilisation of individualised budgets by people with psychosocial disability within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme	9
When policy entrepreneurs fail: Explaining the failure of long‐term care reforms in Poland	8
Work–family balance in the second half of life: Caregivers' decisions regarding retirement and working time reduction in Europe	8
Class politics in the sandbox? An analysis of the socio‐economic determinants of preferences towards public spending and parental fees for childcare	8
A mechanism‐based approach to the comparison of national pension systems in Vietnam and Sri Lanka	8
Affects of policy design: The case of young carers in the Care Act 2014 and the Children and Families Act 2014	7
Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s	7
Causal mechanisms in the analysis of transnational social policy dynamics: Evidence from the global south	7
Translating social policy ideas: The Beveridge report, transnational diffusion, andpost‐warwelfare state development in Canada, Denmark, and France	7
Is Nordic elder care facing a (new) collaborative turn?	7
A qualitative study of the practices and experiences of staff in multidisciplinary child sexual exploitation partnerships in three English coastal towns	7
Research approaches to networked employment services: A systematic review	7
The market made us do it: Public procurement and collaborative labour market inclusion governance from below	7
Inequalities in pensions and retirement from a life course perspective: An introduction	7
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	7
Varieties of liberalism: A comparative analysis of family policy and poverty outcomes across the 50 United States	7
From “what works” to “making it work”: A practice perspective on evidence‐based standardization in frontline service organizations	7
Implementation of individual placement and support in a first‐episode psychosis unit: A new way of working	6
Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries	6
Public employment services: Building social resilience in youth?	6
Efficiency and sustainability in municipal social policies	6
Between affordable welfare and affordable food: Internationalized food subsidy reforms in Egypt and Tunisia	6
Active stewardship in healthcare: Lessons from China's health policy reforms	6
Moral framings in the Australian parliamentary debate on drug testing of welfare recipients	6
Public income transfers and wealth accumulation at the bottom: Within and between country differences in Canada and the United States	6
Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	6
A critical review of cost‐effectiveness research in children's social care: What have we learnt so far?	5
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	5
Integrated care and the ‘agentification’ of the English National Health Service	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
Politicalized empowered learning and complex policy implementation: Targeted poverty alleviation in China's county governments	5
Social investments in the knowledge economy: The politics of inclusive, stratified, and targeted reforms across the globe	5
Out of the wilderness? The coming back of the debate on minimum income in Spain and the Great Recession	5
“I don't know what to do—Could it be cultural?” The operationalization of cultural sensitivity among street‐level workers in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration	5
Citizen‐agency versus state‐agency at the frontline in prisons and probation services: A systematic literature review	5
The power of ideas in policymaking processes: The role of institutionalised knowledge production in state bureaucracies	5
Central coordination, regional competition, and local protectionism: Social decentralisation in China's long‐term care reform	5
The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived: A Trojan horse dilemma?	5
Hybridization in China's elder care service provision	4
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	4
Impression management in the market for residential care for children and youth in Sweden	4
Fugitive coproduction: Conceptualising informal community practices in Scotland's hospitals	4
Buying for good: Altruism, ethical consumerism and social policy	4
Equity versus equality: Discourses and practices within decentralized welfare‐to‐work programs in California	4
Signs of the gender revolution's second phase? Historical and cross‐national development of fathers' leave provisions	4
The long and short of it: The temporal significance of wealth and income	4
The guaranteed minimum income in Portugal: A universal safety net under political and financial pressure	4
Gender, welfare state regimes and social policy beyond advanced capitalism: Pathways to decommodification in middle‐income countries	4
Pension reforms, the generational welfare contract and preferences for pro‐old welfare policies in Europe	4
Sick but at work: Graded sick leave in a comparative perspective	4
Who deserves what and why during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Applying the CARIN principles of deservingness to the American welfare state	4
Education as social policy: New tensions in maturing knowledge economies	4
Welfare contracting with Chinese socialist characteristics: Experience of the Bohai Bay Economic Rim, Northern China	3
Multi‐level governance and central‐local tensions: The issue of local discretion in long‐term care policy in Italy	3
Accounting for what and to whom? Accountability tensions in collaborations addressing long‐term unemployment	3
Policy success: What is the role of implementation support programmes?	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
Information, reflection, and successful job search: A labor market policy experiment	3
E Hine: Young Māori mothers talk about welfare benefits	3
From industrial restructuring to the financial crisis: Mainstream nationalism and minimum income in the Basque Country	3
Women's management in local government: The effects of substantive representation on welfare service efficiency	3
Implementation structures at work. Exploring implementation and de‐implementation attempts regarding Housing First and Individual Placement and Support	3
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises	3
Are attitudes in employees of public employment service in line with the principles of individual placement and support? A questionnaire‐based survey	3
Same same but different? Comparing institutional performance in the long‐term care systems of Japan and South Korea	3
Explaining Italian “exceptionalism” and its end: Minimum income from neglect to hyper‐politicization	3
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation	3
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	3
Accommodation and new hurdles: The increasing importance of politics for immigrants' access to social programmes in Western democracies	3
How does self‐employment affect pension income? A comparative analysis of European welfare states	3
Why do unemployed people avoid participation in training? An experiment for policy making	3
Education as a tool of social equality?	2
Dealing with drift: Comparing social care reform in the four nations of the UK	2
Evaluating social policies: Do methodological approaches determine the policy impact?	2
The operation of the social support sector serving siblings of people with disabilities: A cross‐country analysis	2
‘I've probably risk assessed this myself’: Choice, control and participant co‐regulation in a disability individualised funding scheme	2
Cross‐sectoral frontline delivery of welfare‐to‐work services for young adults with complex problems in Norway	2
A scooping review of Scandinavian studies of sick‐listed' and social insurance officers' experiences of their encounters'	2
Generation rent on the housing treadmill: A study on South Korea's housing allowance programmes and recurring precarity	2
Follow the hand that feeds you? The effects of non‐governmental cash transfers on citizenship	2
The provision of work–life balance practices across welfare states and industries and their impact on extraordinary turnover	2
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme	2
Central‐local tensions in the decentralization of social policies: Street‐level bureaucrats and social practices in the Netherlands	2
The employment of people with lived experience of disability in Australian disability services	2
Let's talk about our feelings: Emotional labour of community practice in times of pandemic	2
Exploring the politics of strain: Crime and welfare in remote Indigenous Australia	2
Not seeing the elephant in the room: How policy discourses shape frontline work with child poverty	2
Does capping social security harm health? A natural experiment in the UK	2
Education and ignorance in the UK 80 years after Beveridge: The role of government and equality of opportunity	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
Determinants of social assistance caseloads for employable single adults without dependants in Canada	2
TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states	2
Citizens' expectations about social protection in multilevel governance: The interplay between national and supranational institutions	2
Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform	2
Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states	2
Emergency welfare states in action: Social policy adaptations to COVID‐19 in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	2
Digital policy to disability employment? An ecosystem perspective on China and Australia	2
Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship	2
Reversed socioeconomic pattern in the costs of caring regarding well‐being and paid work among women in Sweden	2
Towards a more all‐inclusive evaluation of interventions for unemployed youth: A longitudinal investigation of participant, programme, relational and contextual factors	2
The ‘New Five Giants’—Conceptualising the challenges facing societal progress in the 21st century	2
Guiding principles for social security policy: Outcomes from a bottom‐up approach	2
How divided is the attitudinal context for policymaking? Changes in public attitudes to the welfare state, inequality and immigration over two decades in Britain	2
Old‐age poverty in a pension latecomer: The impact of basic pension expansions in South Korea	2
Social class bias in welfare sanctioning judgements: Experimental evidence from a nationally representative sample	2
The EPSR and the Next Generation EU: Heralding a reconfiguration of social protection in South Europe?	2
Deregulation, quality and access—The case of legal professionals in Poland	2
The (changing) consideration of social investment in the design of welfare benefits: The case of poverty relief in Austria	2

Social policy reform driven by crises: Promoting and reshaping social policy during the SARS and COVID‐19 pandemics in China	2
Social security or insecurity? The experience of welfare participation by financially vulnerable households in the Netherlands	2
The multi‐dimensional politics of education policy in the knowledge economy: The case of Italy (1996–2008)	2
Whatever happened to the Child Trust Fund? The abandonment of universal savings for UK children	1
The implosion of the Dutch surveillance welfare state	1
Protected against all odds? A mixed‐methods study on the risk of welfare sanctions for immigrants in Germany	1
From policy to politics? Exploring feedback effects of social protection on state‐citizen relations in Ghana	1
Welfare developmentalism with interactive central–local relations: Understanding the recent expansion in pension coverage in China	1
Ratings, rankings and managing numbers: Professionals' perspectives on user surveys in Swedish nursing home care	1
European long‐term care marketisation: A political economy framework	1
The politics of safety net reform in Southern Europe during the Great Recession: Introduction to the regional issue	1
Living wages in Portugal: In search of dignity in a polarised labour market	1
Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state	1
Social work and the state: Perspectives and practice	1
The effect of paid maternity leave on low‐income families' welfare use in the US	1
Knowledge, skills or social mobility? Citizens' perceptions of the purpose of education	1
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea	1
Care earnings in the United States and 24 European countries: The role of social policy and labour market institutions	1
Beveridge, Bevan and institutional change in the UK welfare state	1
Different understandings of welfare benefits among the Dutch public: A focus group study	1
Is there a trade‐off between housing and pension system generosity? Empirical evidence from the Luxembourg Wealth Study	1
The moral, the political and social licence in digitally‐driven family policy and intervention: Parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families	1
Who needs cash? The deservingness perceptions of Brazilian civil servants in cash‐based social policy implementation	1
Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland	1
The politics of disaggregated family policy: The role of party ideology and women's political representation in governments	1
How does she do it all? Effects of education on reconciliation of employment and informal caregiving among Austrian women	1
‘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
Job search, transition to employment and discouragement among older unemployed welfare recipients in Germany	1
Theorizing notions of the participation of people in poverty in social policymaking: Policing, politics and subjectification	1
The industrialisation thesis, revisited: Understanding welfare expansion in China through social expenditure data (2000–2019)	1
Introduction to special issue: States, citizens and social protection in Africa	1
Feeling insecure and excluding immigrants: Relationship between subjective risks and welfare chauvinism	1
Exit from open‐ended social benefits into employment: Access to work, active labour market policies and work intensity	1
The intergenerational transmission of income mobility between mothers and their young adult daughters: The mediating role of their daughters' educational attainment	1
Classifying participatory methods in social care regulation	1
Buffering national welfare states in hard times: The politics of EU capacity‐building in the social policy domain	1
Gender and proposed Auto‐enrolment in the Republic of Ireland: Lessons from the UK	1
The implementation of social protection in a conservative African welfare regime: The values and beliefs of local state officials in Botswana	1
Does the unemployment trap still exist? The case of the Italian minimum income scheme	1
Social protection and state‐citizen relations: A review of the literature	1
Using candidacy theory to explore unemployed over‐50s perceptions of suitability of a welfare to work programme: A longitudinal qualitative study	1
Development and validation of the supervision practice in human services scale	1
Framing Beveridge	1
Markets or unions? De‐unionisation and German firms' provision of flexible working‐time policies from 2002 to 2016	1
Reshaping state–citizen relationships through donor‐designed targeting systems in Lesotho and Malawi	1
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia	1
Beveridge on idleness	1
Do governments account for gender when designing their social protection systems? Findings from an analysis of national social protection strategies	1
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Moving beyond stereotype: A qualitative study of long‐standing recipients of the Indonesian conditional cash transfers (CCT/PKH)	1
Choice and opportunity on the welfare care market: An experimental evaluation of decision‐making in a context of individual funding policy	1
Analysis of the effect of social capital on rural household poverty	1
The culture of education regimes: Efficiency, equality and governance in education and social policy	1
The politics of scale in policy: Scalecraft and education governance, by NataliePapanastasiouBristol: Policy Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781447343851; £60 (Hbk)	0
Which employers have refugee employees—And which do not? Employer typologies developed through hierarchical cluster analyses	0
Disability and care: State, society and invisible lives. UpaliChakravartiNew Delhi: Sage publications India, 2018. ISBN: 9789352807741, £32.99 (Hbk)	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
Clients, Consumers or Citizens? The Privatisation of Adult Social Care in EnglandBobHudsonBristol: Policy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781447355700; £24.99 (pbk)	0
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Public understandings of welfare and the economy: Who knows what and does it relate to political attitudes?	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 quest for a divided welfare state: Sweden in the era of privatization. JohnLapidusBasingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, 2019. ISBN 9783030247836; £69.99 (Hbk)	0
How does immigration affect welfare support in Korea?	0
A research agenda for governance. By B. GuyPeters, JonPierre, EvaSørensen, & JacobTorfing. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022. ISBN: 9781788117982; £80.00 (Hbk)	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
Minimum income in the Western Balkans: From socialism to the European Pillar of Social Rights	0
Crises of the welfare state, resilience, and pessimism of the intellect	0
The case for universal basic incomeLouiseHaaghCambridge, Polity, 2019. ISBN: 9781509522965, £12.99 (Pbk)	0
Palgrave handbook of co‐production of public services and outcomes. Elke Loeffler, Tony BovairdBasingstoke: Palgrave, 2021. ISBN: 9783030537050; £127.50 (Ebk).	0
Creating relationship‐based practice in youth employment services—Converting policy intentions to practical program design	0
Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £25	0
Work and alienation in the platform economy. Amazon and the power of organisation. By SarrahKassem, Bristol University Press. 2023. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781529226546	0
The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective	0
A history of the intermediate tier in the English NHS: Centre, region, periphery	0
Social policy review 31: Analysis and debate in social policyElkeHeins, JamesRees, and CatherineNeedham. Bristol: Policy Press, 2019. ISBN: 1447343981; £75 (Hbk)	0
Control pliers in principal‐agent relations: An investigation of hardship commissions in the German asylum administration	0
Activation through marketisation as a process of ignorancing	0
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
Variations in Social Europe? National political parties' positions on EU‐level social regulations	0
Democratic contestation, organised labour, and pension reform in Ghana and Malawi	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
Street‐level bureaucrats' discretion between individual and institutional factors: The analysis of the minimum income policy implementation in two Italian regions	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
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
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
Subnational policy innovation: The birth of social pensions in Mexico	0
Including migrant skills in a knowledge economy: The politics of recognition of foreign qualifications, work experience and industry courses	0
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	0
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
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Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2022	0
Buying and selling the poor: Inside Australia's privatised welfare‐to‐work marketSiobhanO'Sullivan, MichaelMcGann, MarkConsidineSydney University Press, Sydney (2021). ISBN: 9781743327869	0
Policy representation of everyday harm experienced by people with disability	0