Social Policy and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Policy and Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States41
What Do We Know About Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Participation in UK Higher Education?36
Conceptualising the Role of Deservingness in Migrants’ Access to Social Services30
Two Scenarios for Sustainable Welfare: A Framework for an Eco-Social Contract25
Determinants of Public Support for Eco-Social Policies: A Comparative Theoretical Framework23
Developing a New Conceptual Framework of Meaningful Interaction for Understanding Social Isolation and Loneliness22
Towards a Sustainable Welfare State: The Role of Universal Basic Services18
Fluid Enquiry, Complex Causality, Policy Processes: Making a Difference with Qualitative Longitudinal Research18
Deserving of Social Support? Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Decisions on EU Migrants’ Benefit Claims in Germany18
Income Support in an Eco-Social State: The Case for Participation Income17
Retrenched, Reconfigured and Broken: The British Welfare State after a Decade of Austerity17
Towards a Capability-Oriented Eco-Social Policy: Elements of a Normative Framework16
Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Monochrome to Technicolour16
The Food Bank: A Safety-Net in Place of Welfare Security in Times of Austerity and the Covid-19 Crisis15
Hidden Homelessness: A Scoping Review and Avenues for Further Inquiry13
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State13
Employment Inequalities Among British Minority Ethnic Workers in Health and Social Care at the Time of Covid-19: A Rapid Review of the Literature13
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary12
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries12
Into the Promised Land: Modelling the Role of Take-Up Agents in Realising Welfare Rights11
Coping with Gendered Welfare Stigma: Exploring Everyday Accounts of Stigma and Resistance Strategies among Mothers Who Claim Social Security Benefits9
Older Carers and Carers of People with Dementia: Improving and Developing Effective Support9
What Role for Activation in Eco-Social Policy?9
Self-funders: Still By-Standers in the English Social Care Market?9
Crisis Management, Policy Reform, and Institutions: The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 in Australia9
Employer Engagement and Active Labour Market Policies. Evidence from a Norwegian Multi-Method Study9
Poverty by Design: The Role of Charity and the Cultivated Ethical Citizen8
Right-Wing Populism and the Securitisation of Laïcité Narratives in French Education Policy8
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic8
Child Support in Shared Care Cases: Do Child Support Policies in Thirteen Countries Reflect Family Policy Models?8
Examining the Consequences of Welfare Conditionality: A Case Study of Compulsory Income Management in the Regional Community of Ceduna, Australia8
What Is Out There and What Can We Learn? International Evidence on Funding and Delivery of Long-Term Care8
Universal Credit and Automated Decision Making: A Case of the Digital Tail Wagging the Policy Dog?8
Introduction Qualitative Longitudinal Research for Social Policy – Where Are We Now?8
Diversifying the Social Policy Curriculum: A Collaborative Approach8
Are Older Adults’ Leisure Patterns Consistent with the Active Ageing Model? The Influence of the Ageist Stereotypes7
The Legacy of Austerity7
Ideas and Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia7
Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users7
Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme7
The Brexit Religion and the Holy Grail of the NHS7
Colonial Disparities in Higher Education: Explaining Racial Inequality for Māori Youth in Aotearoa New Zealand7
Populism, Religion and Catholic Civil Society in Poland: The Case of Primary Education7
Deservingness and Uneven Geographies of Asylum Accommodation7
Tracing State Accountability for COVID-19: Representing Care within Ireland’s Response to the Pandemic6
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England6
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry6
Building the Evidence for Family Violence Policy Reform: The Work of Specialist Women’s Refuges in Victoria, Australia6
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?6
Engaging with Decolonisation, Tackling Antigypsyism: Lessons from Teaching Romani Studies at the Central European University in Hungary6
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?6
Intra-Crisis Lesson-Drawing in Real-Time: The Pandemic Lessons Available in the UK Media during the First Months of COVID-195
More than a Free Lunch: A Content Analysis of the Controversies Surrounding Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter5
Introduction: Interrogating Welfare Stigma5
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector5
Limits to Transformational Potential: Analysing Entitlement and Agency within a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines5
Introduction: A Hostile Decade for Social Policy: Economic Crisis, Political Crisis and Austerity 2010-205
Charting the Rough Journey to ‘Home’: The Contribution of Qualitative Longitudinal Research to Understandings of Homelessness in Austerity5
In-cash Transfers: from Passive to Empowered Beneficiaries in the Global South5
Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry5
Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan5
The Management of Retirement Savings Among Financially Heterogamous Couples5
Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Policy Responses to Shared New Social Risks5
Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection5
Applying Neo-Republican Theory to Welfare to Work Practices: Rules and Arbitrary Power in Mandatory Work Programmes in the Netherlands4
Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany4
Sick and Vulnerable Migrants in French Public Hospitals. The Administrative and Budgetary Dimension of Un/Deservingness4
Religion, Populism, and the Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals4
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision4
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future4
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Sociology: A Critical Analysis of the Conceptual, the Methodological and the Institutional4
Othering in Media Representations of Elderly Care: Using the Social Justice Framework to Make Sense of Public Discourses on Migrants and Culture4
Checking Activation at the Door: Rethinking the Welfare-Work Nexus in Light of Australia’s Covid-19 Response4
Enough is Enough: De-colonise, Diversify and De-construct the Curriculum4
No Place for Old Men? Meeting the Needs of an Ageing Male Prison Population in England and Wales4
Introduction: The (Un)Deserving Migrant? Street-Level Bordering Practices and Deservingness in Access to Social Services4
Framing and Shaming: The 2017 Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All Campaign4
Deservingness in Judicial Discourse. An Analysis of the Legal Reasoning Adopted in Dutch Case Law on Irregular Migrant Families’ Access to Shelter4
Mixed Services and Mediated Deservingness: Access to Housing for Migrants in Greece4
Passing Stigma: Negotiations of Welfare Categories as Street Level Governmentality4
Partnership and Personalisation in Personal Care: Conflicts and Compromises4
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State4
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services4
The Production of Employment Conditions for Migrant Care Workers: Cross National Perspectives4
The Austerity Decade 2010-203
Austerity, Poverty, and Children’s Services Quality in England: Consequences for Child Welfare and Public Services3
When Job Search is Deemed Insufficient: Experiences of Unemployed People Disbarred Following Compliancy Monitoring3
Case Study: Decolonising the Curriculum – An Exemplification3
Social Policy Development Revisited: The Interplay between Push and Pull Factors in the Indonesian Healthcare Expansion3
The Social Practices of Food Bank Volunteer Work3
Trapped in a Blind Spot: The Covid-19 Crisis in Nursing Homes in Italy and Spain3
Disability and Regulatory Approaches to Employer Engagement: Cross-National Challenges in Bridging the Gap between Motivation and Hiring Practice3
Principles of Success: Facilitating Sustainable Transformation through a Progressive Relational Pedagogy3
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study3
Administrative Burden in Citizen-State Encounters: The Role of Waiting, Communication Breakdowns and Administrative Errors3
The Effect of Social Pension on Material Hardship among Older Adults in Korea: Regression Discontinuity Estimation3
Military Veterans and Welfare Reform: Bridging Two Policy Worlds through Qualitative Longitudinal Research3
The Impact of Employer Characteristics on Sustaining Employment for Workers with Reduced Capacity: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data3
Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: a just transition to Net Zero3
Security, Social Policy, Agency and Work of the Courts in Relation to Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons3
Understanding Disability Policy Development: Integrating Social Policy Research with the Disability Studies Perspective3
Relational Learning and Teaching with BME Students in Social Work Education3
Interactions between Child Labour and Schooling: Parental Perceptions in Rural and Urban Ghana3
The Debt Relief Notice: Its Effectiveness in Improving the Financial Well-Being of Over-Indebted Individuals and Its Impact on Social Mobility3
More than Money? Job Quality and Food Insecurity among Employed Lone Mother Households in the United States3
Sleepwalking into the ‘Post-Racial’: Social Policy and Research-Led Teaching3
The Importance of Considering Debt and Young Children in Activation: A Survival Analysis of Return to Welfare3
Working Hard or Hardly Working? Examining the Politics of In-Work Conditionality in the UK3
Leveraging Policy Capabilities in Russia and Finland during the Pandemic2
State of the Art: ‘The People’ and Their Social Rights: What Is Distinctive About the Populism-Religion-Social Policy Nexus?2
How did COVID-19 Social Security Measures Resemble Universal Basic Income? A Comparative Study of OECD Countries2
Analysing Co-creation and Co-production Initiatives for the Development of Age-friendly Strategies: Learning from the Three Capital Cities in the Basque Autonomous Region2
‘They Made an Excellent Start…but After a While, It Started to Die Out’, Tensions in Combining Personalisation and Integration in English Adult Social Care2
Graded Work, the Activation of Sick-Listed Workers and Employer Participation in Continental Europe2
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach2
Freedom and Gender Equality in EU Family Policy Tools2
Populism and Religion in Brazil: The View from Education Policy2
Progressing Towards a Freer Market in Australian Residential Aged Care2
Cracking the Nest Egg: Comparing Pension Politics in Post-Communist Russia and Hungary2
Addressing Water Poverty Under Climate Crisis: Implications for Social Policy2
The Role of Mental Health in Multiple Exclusion Homelessness2
No Common Ground? Public Knowledge about Welfare Spending in Turkey and its Social Divisions2
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance2
Taking from the Disadvantaged? Consumption Tax Induced Poverty across Household Types in Eleven OECD Countries2
The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Policies on Young Fathers: Comparative Insights from the UK and Sweden2
The Multi-Tool Nature of Active Labour Market Policy and its Implications for Partisan Politics in Advanced Democracies2
Economic Sanctions and the Material Well-being of Iranian Older Adults: Do Pensions Make a Difference?2
(in) Accuracy in Algorithmic Profiling of the Unemployed – An Exploratory Review of Reporting Standards2
Not Free at All: Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care System2
Constructions of Unemployed Individuals in German Parliamentary Debates on Active Labour Market Policy Reforms: A Comparative Analysis of 2003 and 20162
Food for Thought: A Survey on the Nature of Work Precarity in Platform-Based On-Demand Work2
Incentives and Deterrents to the Supply of Long-term Care for the Elderly in England: Evidence and Experience in Two Local Authorities2
Making a Case for Centring Energy Poverty in Social Policy in Light of the Climate Emergency: A Global Integrative Review2
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System2
‘You’re having us on … that’s what it felt like.’: Frontline Workers Navigating the Introduction of Moral Commitments to Domestic Abuse Support within a Statutory Homelessness System1
Business Structures, Stereotypes and Knowledge of Discrimination: Understanding Employers’ Support to Paid Family Leave in Hong Kong1
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland1
Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation1
Dividing Responsibility for Care: Tracing the Ethics of Care in Local Care Strategies1
NGOs and the Promotion of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe1
Governing the Family through Parental Responsibilisation and Professionalisation: An Analysis of the State ‘Family Education’ Discourses in Contemporary China1
Personal Savings for Those on Lower Incomes: Towards a New Framework for Assessing the Role of the State in Relation to Savings Schemes1
Introduction: Mapping the Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities1
Tailored and Seamless: Individualised Budgets and the Dual Forces of Personalisation and Collaboration1
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision – CORRIGENDUM1
“I feel like I’m useful. I’m not useless, you know?”: Exploring Volunteering as Resistance to Stigma for Men Who Experience Mental Illness1
Have Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 Been Institutionalised?1
Home Education in England: A Loose Thread in the Child Safeguarding Net?1
Factors Associated with Preventive Care Utilisation among Chinese Older Adults: Evidence from the 2018 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey1
The Normative Construction of and Contestation over In-Work Benefits in Hong Kong: A Moral Economy Approach1
How Does Automation Risk Shape Social Policy Preference? Employment Insecurity and Policy Feedback Effect in China1
‘It Matters How They See You’: ‘Maternal Activation’ As a Strategy to Navigate Contradictory Discourses of Motherhood and Neoliberal Activism in the Welsh Homelessness System1
Constituting ‘Problems’ through Policies: A WPR Approach of Policies Governing Teenage Pregnancy in France1
A Conceptual Framework to Map Responses to Hate Crime, Hate Incidents and Hate Speech: The Case of Australia1
Case Study: Enhancing the Learning Experiences of BAME Students at a University: The University Role1
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level1
Constructions of Undeservingness around the Figure of the Undocumented Pregnant Woman in the French Department of Mayotte1
Mixed Services and Mediated Deservingness: Access to Housing for Migrants in Greece – CORRIGENDUM1
Caring Piously: New Institutionalisation of Childcare Services in Turkey1
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy1
Cracking the Nest Egg: Comparing Pension Politics in Post-Communist Russia and Hungary – ERRATUM1
The Cost-of-Living Crisis in the UK and Ireland: on Inflation, Indexation, and One-Off Policy Responses1
If Not Now, Then When? Pathways to Embed Climate Change Within Social Policy1
Introduction: ‘Race’, Learning and Teaching in Social Policy in Higher Education1
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