Social Policy and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Policy and Society 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 Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project54
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study47
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future35
What Is Out There and What Can We Learn? International Evidence on Funding and Delivery of Long-Term Care32
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter26
SPS volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Front matter22
Incentives and Deterrents to the Supply of Long-term Care for the Elderly in England: Evidence and Experience in Two Local Authorities21
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter20
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance19
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach19
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?19
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter16
Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors16
The Social Practices of Food Bank Volunteer Work15
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic13
Beyond the Work Society? Social Policy and the Reduction of Working Time13
List of Referees for 202311
Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States11
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision11
Meeting Marginal Demands in New Welfare Governance? China’s Contracting of Welfare Services in the Sectors of Disability and HIV/AIDS11
Some Useful Sources10
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’9
“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes9
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction9
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy8
Defamilisation, Familisation, and LGBTQ+ Studies8
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter8
Workplace Factors Associated with Employment of Refugees – Evidence from a Survey Among Danish Employers8
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back matter8
Analysing Co-creation and Co-production Initiatives for the Development of Age-friendly Strategies: Learning from the Three Capital Cities in the Basque Autonomous Region8
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties7
Investment Decisions on Physical Activity Promotion: A Locality Case Study in Complex Public Health Policy Making7
Child Support in Shared Care Cases: Do Child Support Policies in Thirteen Countries Reflect Family Policy Models?7
Not Free at All: Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care System7
Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users7
Financial Exclusion in the UK: Evidence on Ethnicity7
Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy7
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter7
Disability and Regulatory Approaches to Employer Engagement: Cross-National Challenges in Bridging the Gap between Motivation and Hiring Practice7
The Conditionality of Trusting Caseworkers in the Social Services Sector – Insights from Germany and Denmark6
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Front matter6
The Entrepreneurial Welfare Mix: The Case of Community-Based Old Age Services in China6
Introduction: ‘Race’, Learning and Teaching in Social Policy in Higher Education6
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level6
Editors’ Notes: Towards the Centenary of the ‘Beveridge Report’: A Debate on the Welfare State for the Next Twenty Years6
The Same Storm, but Different Boats: Unpicking the ‘Housing Crisis’6
Case Study: Enhancing the Learning Experiences of BAME Students at a University: The University Role6
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism6
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector6
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry6
Constituting ‘Problems’ through Policies: A WPR Approach of Policies Governing Teenage Pregnancy in France5
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea5
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM5
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM5
When Can Government Paternalist Interventions Be Justified? Welfare-to-Work and Interference Intentions5
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix5
The Problems with Troubled Families: Rethinking the Analysis Behind the 120,000 Troubled Families Statistic5
More than Money? Job Quality and Food Insecurity among Employed Lone Mother Households in the United States5
Introduction: The (Un)Deserving Migrant? Street-Level Bordering Practices and Deservingness in Access to Social Services5
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System5
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus5
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State4
SPS volume 21 issue 1 Cover and Back matter4
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England4
Contracting Out Social Services in China’s Three First-Tier Cities: Exploring ‘Variation’ through the Eyes of NGO Practitioners4
Introduction: Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Persons4
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services4
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?4
Explore the Mutual Benefits of Studying the Rights of Sexual Minority People in Hong Kong Confucianism4
SPS volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Back matter4
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State4
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea4
Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System4
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries4
Governing the Family through Parental Responsibilisation and Professionalisation: An Analysis of the State ‘Family Education’ Discourses in Contemporary China4
Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Policy Responses to Shared New Social Risks3
How Have the Nordic Welfare States Responded to the Unexpected Increase in Inflation?3
Coping with Gendered Welfare Stigma: Exploring Everyday Accounts of Stigma and Resistance Strategies among Mothers Who Claim Social Security Benefits3
Informal Care Provision and the Reduction of Economic Activity Among Mid-Life Carers in Great Britain – A Mixed-Methods Approach – ERRATUM3
Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection3
When Job Search is Deemed Insufficient: Experiences of Unemployed People Disbarred Following Compliancy Monitoring3
Silent Elements of Policy Change: Inflation and Uprating Mechanisms in the Low Countries3
Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Monochrome to Technicolour3
Security, Social Policy, Agency and Work of the Courts in Relation to Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons3
Risk Governance, State Capacity, and Critical Human Security: Evolution of Risk Governance in Response to Systemic Risk in the UK and South Korea3
Poverty by Design: The Role of Charity and the Cultivated Ethical Citizen3
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland3
Some Useful Sources3
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary3
Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation3
Constructions of Unemployed Individuals in German Parliamentary Debates on Active Labour Market Policy Reforms: A Comparative Analysis of 2003 and 20163
List of Referees for 20223
Addressing Water Poverty Under Climate Crisis: Implications for Social Policy3
Colonial Disparities in Higher Education: Explaining Racial Inequality for Māori Youth in Aotearoa New Zealand3
Introduction: Policies and Practices Shaping Long-Term Care: Between an Inclusivity Ethos and Service Delivery Realities3
Some Useful Sources – CORRIGENDUM3
SPS volume 22 issue 3 Cover and Back matter3
Determinants of Public Support for Eco-Social Policies: A Comparative Theoretical Framework3
Equality and Devolution in the United Kingdom: A Story in Three Acts and a Sequel3
Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry3
The Practical Politics of Doughnut Economics and Climate Crisis3
Crisis Management, Policy Reform, and Institutions: The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 in Australia2
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Taxation and Social Need: Lessons from the Short-Lived UK Health and Social Care Levy2
Diversifying the Social Policy Curriculum: A Collaborative Approach2
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion2
Housing and Papering Over the Cracks of the Welfare State: Exploring the Role and Impact of Technology as Part of Housing Service Provision in an Era of Multi-level Precarity2
The Food Bank: A Safety-Net in Place of Welfare Security in Times of Austerity and the Covid-19 Crisis2
The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Policies on Young Fathers: Comparative Insights from the UK and Sweden2
Chinese and Australian Neoliberal Policy Responses to Risks in Social Service Purchasing2
A Hidden Cost: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland2
Some Useful Sources2
Austerity, Ageism, and the Rhetoric of Self-reliance: The Policy Drivers and Socio-cultural Attitudes Contributing to the Loneliness Experienced by Older Residents in an Underprivileged Community in S2
Exploring the Alternatives to the Male-Breadwinner Model – The Implications for Social Policy Study2
Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme2
Cracking the Nest Egg: Comparing Pension Politics in Post-Communist Russia and Hungary – ERRATUM2
Some Useful Sources2
Co-creating Value in the Scandinavian Welfare System: Matching Elderly Care in a Major Swedish Municipality2
Limits to Transformational Potential: Analysing Entitlement and Agency within a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines1
‘They Made an Excellent Start…but After a While, It Started to Die Out’, Tensions in Combining Personalisation and Integration in English Adult Social Care1
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland – ERRATUM1
Enough is Enough: De-colonise, Diversify and De-construct the Curriculum1
Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Asset-based Welfare and Housing in Great Britain1
The ‘Means Available to Relieve Suffering’: Translating Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards in Canadian Policy and Practice1
Income Support in an Eco-Social State: The Case for Participation Income1
Small Moments and Turning Points for Long-term Poor Families in Norway: The Lived Experience of Having a Family Coordinator1
SPS volume 22 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
NGOs and the Promotion of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe1
SPS volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Northern Ireland Childcare Strategy: A Work in Progress?1
Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Southern Europe1
SPS volume 20 issue 3 Cover and Back matter1
Are Young English People’s Attitudes Towards Employment Indicative of Whether They Have Spent a Large Proportion of Their Adult Lives Unemployed?1
Institutional Dimension of Burnout in Governmental Psychosocial and Community Programmes: Gaps between Intervening Conditions, Consequences, and Guidelines for Improvement1
Introduction: Social Policy and the Climate Crisis1
SPS volume 23 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
How Does Automation Risk Shape Social Policy Preference? Employment Insecurity and Policy Feedback Effect in China1
Case Study: Decolonising the Curriculum – An Exemplification1
Intra-Crisis Lesson-Drawing in Real-Time: The Pandemic Lessons Available in the UK Media during the First Months of COVID-191
Business Structures, Stereotypes and Knowledge of Discrimination: Understanding Employers’ Support to Paid Family Leave in Hong Kong1
Passing Stigma: Negotiations of Welfare Categories as Street Level Governmentality1
SPS volume 21 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Leveraging Policy Capabilities in Russia and Finland during the Pandemic1
Economic Sanctions and the Material Well-being of Iranian Older Adults: Do Pensions Make a Difference?0
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Why Do Families of Children with Disabilities Discontinue Using Rehabilitation Services? A Qualitative Study in Rural Mainland China0
LGBTQ+ Families, Welfare, and Same-sex Marriage Legalisation in Taiwan: A Social Policy Perspective0
Mixed Services and Mediated Deservingness: Access to Housing for Migrants in Greece – CORRIGENDUM0
Understanding Disability Policy Development: Integrating Social Policy Research with the Disability Studies Perspective0
Tracing State Accountability for COVID-19: Representing Care within Ireland’s Response to the Pandemic0
Factors Associated with Preventive Care Utilisation among Chinese Older Adults: Evidence from the 2018 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey0
Internalised Individualism: Young People, Welfare Conditionality, and the Psychological Framing of Employment Aspirations0
“I Was Trusted for Once”: Imagining More Humane Income Supports Through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot0
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction – CORRIGENDUM0
About Waiting: A Reading from Social Policies and Emotions in the Context of a Pandemic0
You Are Safe Here: Community Sponsorship Policy and Refugee Integration in the UK0
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Breaking the Impasse: Rethinking Refugee Integration through the Equality Act 2010 in the United Kingdom0
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Food for Thought: A Survey on the Nature of Work Precarity in Platform-Based On-Demand Work0
Beyond the Budget: A Global Perspective on Social Spending through Tax Expenditures0
If Not Now, Then When? Pathways to Embed Climate Change Within Social Policy0
SPS volume 20 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Towards a Sustainable Welfare State: The Role of Universal Basic Services0
The Relationship Between Public Policy and Grandparents’ Involvement in Childcare: A Scoping Review of the International Evidence0
The Green Agenda: Why the Provision and Development of Gypsy/Traveller Sites in Scotland is a Health Hazard as Much as an Accommodation Priority0
What Role for Activation in Eco-Social Policy?0
The Economic Cost of Unpaid Care to the Public Finances: Inequalities in Welfare Benefits, Forgone Earnings-related Tax Revenue, and Health Service Utilisation0
SPS volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Introduction Qualitative Longitudinal Research for Social Policy – Where Are We Now?0
What Determines Social Service Workers’ Wages: A Cross-Country Analysis Using a Luxembourg Income Study0
Interactions between Child Labour and Schooling: Parental Perceptions in Rural and Urban Ghana0
Applying Neo-Republican Theory to Welfare to Work Practices: Rules and Arbitrary Power in Mandatory Work Programmes in the Netherlands0
Exclusionary Mechanisms of Social Policy Redistribution in Hungary0
Working Hard or Hardly Working? Examining the Politics of In-Work Conditionality in the UK0
Have Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 Been Institutionalised?0
Agendas of Reform: Continuity and Change in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)0
Homelessness Transitions, Risks, and Prevention Across the Life Course0
Five Factors for Effective Policy to Improve Attitudes towards People with Disability0
Progressing Towards a Freer Market in Australian Residential Aged Care0
How did COVID-19 Social Security Measures Resemble Universal Basic Income? A Comparative Study of OECD Countries0
Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan0
Some Useful Sources0
Work First or Education First? Frontline Service Challenges of Providing Enabling Activation0
Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities – CORRIGENDUM0
Welfare between Social and Human Rights – Charity in the New Social Landscape of Sweden0
The Normative Construction of and Contestation over In-Work Benefits in Hong Kong: A Moral Economy Approach0
Some Useful Sources0
Some Useful Sources0
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The Effect of Social Pension on Material Hardship among Older Adults in Korea: Regression Discontinuity Estimation0
Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: a just transition to Net Zero0
Hidden Homelessness: A Scoping Review and Avenues for Further Inquiry0
Introduction: It’s Not All About Bricks and Mortar: Experiences and Barriers in the Housing Crisis0
Employment Inequalities Among British Minority Ethnic Workers in Health and Social Care at the Time of Covid-19: A Rapid Review of the Literature0
Partnership and Personalisation in Personal Care: Conflicts and Compromises0
‘Working With the Whole Person’: Employability Keyworker Experiences of Supporting People Furthest From the Labour Market0
Military Veterans and Welfare Reform: Bridging Two Policy Worlds through Qualitative Longitudinal Research0
Administrative Burden in Citizen-State Encounters: The Role of Waiting, Communication Breakdowns and Administrative Errors0
The Pervasiveness and Consequences of Market Failure in UK Sub-Prime Credit Markets and Challenges for Social Policy0
Building the Evidence for Family Violence Policy Reform: The Work of Specialist Women’s Refuges in Victoria, Australia0
Austerity, Poverty, and Children’s Services Quality in England: Consequences for Child Welfare and Public Services0
No Place for Old Men? Meeting the Needs of an Ageing Male Prison Population in England and Wales0
List of Referees for 20210
Informal Care Provision and the Reduction of Economic Activity Among Mid-Life Carers in Great Britain – A Mixed-Methods Approach0
Social Policy Attitudes in the UK: Distinguishing Welfarism from Statism0
Post-COVID, Digital Societies: Opportunities and Policy Challenges for Human Security in the United Kingdom and South Korea0
A Conceptual Framework to Map Responses to Hate Crime, Hate Incidents and Hate Speech: The Case of Australia0
Representing the Social Problem of Dementia: Reflexions on Carol Bacchi’s What Is the Problem Represented to Be Approach0
Social Capital, Social Health Insurance, and Health-related Quality of Life among People with Chronic Disease: Cultural and Ideational Perspectives0
Introduction: Interrogating Welfare Stigma0
Introduction: Social Policy Responses and Institutional Reforms in the Pandemic0
Does the Labour Service Cooperation Policy Promote Re-employment: Evidence from China0
Tackling Ethnic Minority Disadvantage: The Differential Impact of Short-term and Long-term-Oriented Strategies on Subsequent Job Matches and Sustainable Employment0
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work0
Using the Intersectional Approach to Social Policy to Investigate the Adult Worker Model0
Why Curriculum and Culturally Responsive Teaching is Important in the Education of Refugee Children: Some Suggestions from the Field0
Some Useful Sources0
Freedom and Gender Equality in EU Family Policy Tools – ERRATUM0
Some Useful Sources0
“We Pupils Had to Hear…” Marginalised Youths’ Experiences of Racialising Language and Symbolic Violence in Swedish Schools0
Temporary Measures or Lasting Reform? Examining Gulf States’ Evolving Welfare Policies in Response to the Global Health Crisis0
The Cost-of-Living Crisis in the UK and Ireland: on Inflation, Indexation, and One-Off Policy Responses0
Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Monochrome to Technicolour – ERRATUM0
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Universal Credit and Automated Decision Making: A Case of the Digital Tail Wagging the Policy Dog?0
Framing and Shaming: The 2017 Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All Campaign0
Some Useful Sources0
Global Trends in Social Inclusion and Social Inclusion Policy: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda0
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision – CORRIGENDUM0
Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities0
SPS volume 23 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Transforming Familialistic Youth Welfare Policies in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Higher Education Support Policies in Korea and Japan0
Trapped in a Blind Spot: The Covid-19 Crisis in Nursing Homes in Italy and Spain0
The ‘Perfect Storm’: Food Banks and Food Insecurity During the Covid-19 Pandemic0
Caring Piously: New Institutionalisation of Childcare Services in Turkey0
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Person-Centred Approach to Bridging South Korea’s Digital Divide0
Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Canada and the United States0
Some Useful Sources0
Does China Need a Carers’ Policy? A Reflection Based on the Caregiving Experience of Older Carers0
SPS volume 22 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Making a Case for Centring Energy Poverty in Social Policy in Light of the Climate Emergency: A Global Integrative Review0
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Some Useful Sources0
The Debt Relief Notice: Its Effectiveness in Improving the Financial Well-Being of Over-Indebted Individuals and Its Impact on Social Mobility0
Introduction: Mapping the Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities0
Migrants’ Relational Experiences with the Welfare State at the Street Level: A Focus on the Role of Language0
No Common Ground? Public Knowledge about Welfare Spending in Turkey and its Social Divisions0
The Importance of Considering Debt and Young Children in Activation: A Survival Analysis of Return to Welfare0
An Intersectional Approach to Family Life: Reflections on Same-Sex Marriage, Familisation Risks, and Defamilisation Risks in Mainland China0
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