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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
SPS volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Front matter41
Compassionate Cites and Compassionate Communities: A Critical Interpretative Review32
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter23
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project23
Welfare Stigma, Need, and Benefit Take-Up among Low-Income Parents: The Impossible Triangle of Being a Good Parent in a Liberal Welfare City21
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter19
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter18
Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors18
Beyond the Work Society? Social Policy and the Reduction of Working Time13
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance12
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach12
List of Referees for 202311
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?11
Navigating the Contradictory Politics of being a Marginalised Migrant during Covid-199
Between Family and Market: China’s Emerging Third Way Model of Childcare and Its Challenges9
Pension Inequalities and Policy Responses9
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter8
The Supply Side of Personalisation in Disability Policies in the Welfare Service System7
“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes7
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’7
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back matter7
Meeting Marginal Demands in New Welfare Governance? China’s Contracting of Welfare Services in the Sectors of Disability and HIV/AIDS7
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction7
Taxation, Environmental Sustainability, and Distributive Outcomes: Balancing Behavioural Change and Fairness7
A Scoping Review on the Conceptualisation of Employer Engagement in the Employment of Vulnerable Workers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective7
Workplace Factors Associated with Employment of Refugees – Evidence from a Survey Among Danish Employers6
Taxation and Intergenerational Fairness: Exploring the Role of Inheritance Taxes with a Focus on Ireland6
Defamilisation, Familisation, and LGBTQ+ Studies6
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy6
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties6
Dealing With COVID-19 in Czechia: Why Social Policies and Epidemiological Policies had Different Dynamics5
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter5
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector5
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism5
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System4
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level4
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Front matter4
Enrolment of Second-Generation Migrant Jobseekers in Training Programmes and Internships: Exploring the Gap between Natives with and Without a Migration Background4
Introduction to Themed Section – Trust and Distrust in Social Welfare: The Perspective of Users4
Editors’ Notes: Towards the Centenary of the ‘Beveridge Report’: A Debate on the Welfare State for the Next Twenty Years4
Financial Exclusion in the UK: Evidence on Ethnicity4
“They’re Not Thinking on the Same Side We Are”: Street-Level Activation of Parents under Universal Credit4
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM4
The Entrepreneurial Welfare Mix: The Case of Community-Based Old Age Services in China4
Assessing the Impact of Cash Transfer Programmes on Socioeconomic Outcomes in the MENA Region: A Systematic Review4
The Conditionality of Trusting Caseworkers in the Social Services Sector – Insights from Germany and Denmark4
The Same Storm, but Different Boats: Unpicking the ‘Housing Crisis’4
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix3
SPS volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter3
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus3
SPS volume 24 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
Explore the Mutual Benefits of Studying the Rights of Sexual Minority People in Hong Kong Confucianism3
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries3
Get Britain Working? Continuity and Change in Labour’s Post-2024 Welfare and Employment Strategy3
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England3
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM3
The Importance of Financial and Pension Literacy in Closing the Financial Advice Gap in the U.K.3
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea3
Redistribution and the Tax System: A Social Policy Perspective3
Critical Human Security, State Capacity, and Policy Challenges in a Post-Covid-19 World: South Korea and the UK3
The Practical Politics of Doughnut Economics and Climate Crisis3
Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System3
SPS volume 24 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea3
When Can Government Paternalist Interventions Be Justified? Welfare-to-Work and Interference Intentions3
SPS volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Back matter3
Making Sense of Bureaucratic Information: Conceptualising Bureaucratic Translation3
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?3
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary3
Silent Elements of Policy Change: Inflation and Uprating Mechanisms in the Low Countries3
Introduction: Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Persons3
Guaranteed Income as Targeted Welfare? Mechanisms and Conditions Linking Income Security, Health, and Crime for Patients in Forensic Psychiatry2
Welfare Users’ Perceptions of Distributive Justice and Trust When Facing Institutional Enigma2
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
Some Useful Sources2
SPS volume 25 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Risk Governance, State Capacity, and Critical Human Security: Evolution of Risk Governance in Response to Systemic Risk in the UK and South Korea2
SPS volume 22 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
Efficiency of the Long-Term Care Sector in Poland based on an Activities of Daily Living evaluation2
Contracting Out Social Services in China’s Three First-Tier Cities: Exploring ‘Variation’ through the Eyes of NGO Practitioners2
Conceptualising Linguistic Disadvantage in the Context of Diversifying Welfare Institutions2
Addressing Water Poverty Under Climate Crisis: Implications for Social Policy2
Co-creating Value in the Scandinavian Welfare System: Matching Elderly Care in a Major Swedish Municipality2
Delayed Retirement, Grandparental Support, and Adult Children’s Fertility Intentions: Insights from a Survey Experiment in China2
Some Useful Sources – CORRIGENDUM2
Informal Care Provision and the Reduction of Economic Activity Among Mid-Life Carers in Great Britain – A Mixed-Methods Approach – ERRATUM2
Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection2
The Role of Bureaucratic Procedures and ‘Caring Professionals’ in Fostering User Trust: Evidence from Serbia and the Czech Republic2
Some Useful Sources2
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland2
A Hidden Cost: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland2
LGBT+ Inclusion and Human Rights in Taiwan: A Scoping Review of the Literature2
Security, Social Policy, Agency and Work of the Courts in Relation to Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons2
Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Policy Responses to Shared New Social Risks2
List of Referees for 20222
How Have the Nordic Welfare States Responded to the Unexpected Increase in Inflation?2
Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation2
The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Policies on Young Fathers: Comparative Insights from the UK and Sweden1
Accessing Early Childcare: A Study of Administrative Barriers in France1
Some Useful Sources1
Introduction: Social Policy and the Climate Crisis1
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision – CORRIGENDUM1
The ‘Means Available to Relieve Suffering’: Translating Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards in Canadian Policy and Practice1
Policy Effects of the Statutory Minimum Wage in Hong Kong: Evidence from the General Household Survey from 2011 to 20191
Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Asset-based Welfare and Housing in Great Britain1
Northern Ireland Childcare Strategy: A Work in Progress?1
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland – ERRATUM1
The Age-Negotiated Configuration of Welfare Conditionality: Implementing Employment Service as the Microfoundation of Extending Job-Seeking Lives in Hong Kong1
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
How Does Automation Risk Shape Social Policy Preference? Employment Insecurity and Policy Feedback Effect in China1
Responses to Welfare Stigma in the Netherlands: The Importance of Developing a Non-stigmatised Identity1
Small Moments and Turning Points for Long-term Poor Families in Norway: The Lived Experience of Having a Family Coordinator1
Institutional Dimension of Burnout in Governmental Psychosocial and Community Programmes: Gaps between Intervening Conditions, Consequences, and Guidelines for Improvement1
SPS volume 23 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
‘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
Are Young English People’s Attitudes Towards Employment Indicative of Whether They Have Spent a Large Proportion of Their Adult Lives Unemployed?1
Taxation and Social Need: Lessons from the Short-Lived UK Health and Social Care Levy1
Autonomy and the Governance of ‘Ageing in Place’1
Exploring the Alternatives to the Male-Breadwinner Model – The Implications for Social Policy Study1
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 S1
Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme1
SPS volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: a just transition to Net Zero1
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
Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Southern Europe1
Chinese and Australian Neoliberal Policy Responses to Risks in Social Service Purchasing1
Cracking the Nest Egg: Comparing Pension Politics in Post-Communist Russia and Hungary – ERRATUM1
Social Policy Development Revisited: The Interplay between Push and Pull Factors in the Indonesian Healthcare Expansion0
SPS volume 23 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Economic Sanctions and the Material Well-being of Iranian Older Adults: Do Pensions Make a Difference?0
Ideas and Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia0
Tackling Ethnic Minority Disadvantage: The Differential Impact of Short-term and Long-term-Oriented Strategies on Subsequent Job Matches and Sustainable Employment0
Exploring UK Public Attitudes Towards Stateless People: A Network Analysis0
Partnership and Personalisation in Personal Care: Conflicts and Compromises0
‘It Matters How They See You’ : ‘Maternal Activation’ As a Strategy to Navigate Contradictory Discourses of Motherhood and Neoliberal Activism in the Welsh Homelessness Syst0
Agendas of Reform: Continuity and Change in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)0
Why Do Families of Children with Disabilities Discontinue Using Rehabilitation Services? A Qualitative Study in Rural Mainland China0
Does the Labour Service Cooperation Policy Promote Re-employment: Evidence from China0
Care-Planning Co-Production Legislation, Policy and Guidance Implications for People Affected by Dementia in England: A Scoping Review0
Transforming Familialistic Youth Welfare Policies in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Higher Education Support Policies in Korea and Japan0
Five Factors for Effective Policy to Improve Attitudes towards People with Disability0
Some Useful Resources0
Cities, Local Social Policy, and Critical Human Security in Times of Turbulence: Seoul and London Compared0
Some Useful Sources0
Temporary Measures or Lasting Reform? Examining Gulf States’ Evolving Welfare Policies in Response to the Global Health Crisis0
Healthcare as a Border: The Role of Welfare State Models in Regulating EU Migrant Mobility0
The Economic Cost of Unpaid Care to the Public Finances: Inequalities in Welfare Benefits, Forgone Earnings-related Tax Revenue, and Health Service Utilisation0
Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities0
Cracking the Nest Egg: Comparing Pension Politics in Post-Communist Russia and Hungary0
If Not Now, Then When? Pathways to Embed Climate Change Within Social Policy0
‘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 System0
Equal Social Participation for All? Measuring the Adequacy of Cash Support for Children with Disabilities in Belgium0
SPS volume 24 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
SPS volume 22 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
A Critical Review of Conceptualisation and Measurement of Social Inclusion: Directions for Conceptual Clarity0
COVID-19 and the Necrocapitalist Production of Death in Older People’s Residential Care Homes0
Understanding Disability Policy Development: Integrating Social Policy Research with the Disability Studies Perspective0
About Waiting: A Reading from Social Policies and Emotions in the Context of a Pandemic0
Assessing the UK Labour Government’s Tax Policies in Its First Year in Office0
SPS volume 24 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
‘I Want Them to See that I See Them’: Beyond Compliance in Inspectors’ Approaches to Service User Participation0
SPS volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Some Useful Sources0
The Effect of Social Pension on Material Hardship among Older Adults in Korea: Regression Discontinuity Estimation0
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work0
“I Was Trusted for Once”: Imagining More Humane Income Supports Through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot0
Beyond the Budget: A Global Perspective on Social Spending through Tax Expenditures0
The Green Agenda: Why the Provision and Development of Gypsy/Traveller Sites in Scotland is a Health Hazard as Much as an Accommodation Priority0
More than a Free Lunch: A Content Analysis of the Controversies Surrounding Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter0
The Debt Relief Notice: Its Effectiveness in Improving the Financial Well-Being of Over-Indebted Individuals and Its Impact on Social Mobility0
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Food (In)Security Policy in Canada (and Likely Elsewhere) has been Derailed by Attention to Food Access0
Differences in Informal Care to Parents between Women and Men: The Role of Individual Gender Role Attitudes and National Contexts0
Social Capital, Social Health Insurance, and Health-related Quality of Life among People with Chronic Disease: Cultural and Ideational Perspectives0
Introduction: Social Policy Responses and Institutional Reforms in the Pandemic0
Critical Human Security, State Capacity, and Post-Pandemic Policy Challenges in Europe and East Asia0
Some Useful Sources0
Exclusionary Mechanisms of Social Policy Redistribution in Hungary0
Introduction: Mapping the Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities0
Food for Thought: A Survey on the Nature of Work Precarity in Platform-Based On-Demand Work0
The Relationship Between Public Policy and Grandparents’ Involvement in Childcare: A Scoping Review of the International Evidence0
An Intersectional Approach to Family Life: Reflections on Same-Sex Marriage, Familisation Risks, and Defamilisation Risks in Mainland China0
Homelessness Transitions, Risks, and Prevention Across the Life Course0
“We Pupils Had to Hear…” Marginalised Youths’ Experiences of Racialising Language and Symbolic Violence in Swedish Schools0
Family and Community Role in the Provision of Informal Care for Older People Living with Chronic Life-limiting Illnesses in Rural Ghana0
Administrative Burden in Citizen-State Encounters: The Role of Waiting, Communication Breakdowns and Administrative Errors0
Caring Piously: New Institutionalisation of Childcare Services in Turkey0
Running Fast, Just to Stay in the Same Place? Social Movements, Political Parties, and the Politics of the Portuguese Informal Caregiver Statute (2015–2019)0
Economic, Normative, and Moral Reasoning in Employer Attitudes to Maternity Leave0
Why Curriculum and Culturally Responsive Teaching is Important in the Education of Refugee Children: Some Suggestions from the Field0
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction – CORRIGENDUM0
Revisiting the Education Skills Act’s (2008) Raising the Participation Age (RPA) – Impact of the RPA within Further Education Health and Social Care, and Analysis of ‘Effective Participation’0
Social Investment Impact on Poverty: Empirical Evidence of the Stock, Flow and Buffer Policy Functions in Germany0
Introduction: Linguistic Disadvantage in Diversifying and Restructuring Welfare Societies0
Using the Intersectional Approach to Social Policy to Investigate the Adult Worker Model0
Public-Private Partnerships in Home- and Community-Based Services for Older People in China: The Case of Guangzhou0
Does China Need a Carers’ Policy? A Reflection Based on the Caregiving Experience of Older Carers0
Making a Case for Centring Energy Poverty in Social Policy in Light of the Climate Emergency: A Global Integrative Review0
Political Ghosts in the Swedish Welfare Machine: De-Politicisation, Neoliberal Technocracy and Quasi-Markets in Swedish University Property Management0
The ‘Perfect Storm’: Food Banks and Food Insecurity During the Covid-19 Pandemic0
Freedom and Gender Equality in EU Family Policy Tools – ERRATUM0
Work First or Education First? Frontline Service Challenges of Providing Enabling Activation0
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
Universal Access, Divided Opinions: A Latent Class Analysis of Public Perceptions of Ghana’s Free Senior High School Policy0
Global Trends in Social Inclusion and Social Inclusion Policy: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda0
Some Useful Sources0
SPS volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
Introduction: Labour in Government and Its Impact on Social Policy0
Navigating Administrative Burden: The Role of Bureaucratic Self-Efficacy and Social Capital Among Ukrainian Asylum Seekers0
Tailored and Seamless: Individualised Budgets and the Dual Forces of Personalisation and Collaboration0
What Determines Social Service Workers’ Wages: A Cross-Country Analysis Using a Luxembourg Income Study0
Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Canada and the United States0
Tracing State Accountability for COVID-19: Representing Care within Ireland’s Response to the Pandemic0
Governing Through (An Exclusive) Community: Limitations of State Conceptualisations of ‘the Community’ in Domestic Violence Policies0
Post-COVID, Digital Societies: Opportunities and Policy Challenges for Human Security in the United Kingdom and South Korea0
Have Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 Been Institutionalised?0
Introduction: Social Policy Challenges and the Role of Taxation0
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Some Useful Sources0
Just Words?: A Discourse Analysis of Labour’s 2024 Manifesto and the Implications for British Social Policy0
Social Policy Attitudes in the UK: Distinguishing Welfarism from Statism0
How did COVID-19 Social Security Measures Resemble Universal Basic Income? A Comparative Study of OECD Countries0
The Pervasiveness and Consequences of Market Failure in UK Sub-Prime Credit Markets and Challenges for Social Policy0
Institutional Sources of Citizens’ Trust in the Welfare State: A Literature Review0
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea – ERRATUM0
Some Useful Sources0
Between the Client and the Institutional System: Street-level Bureaucrats’ Discretion, Positioning, and Trust in Institutional Encounters with Forced Migrants in Finland and Sweden0
(in) Accuracy in Algorithmic Profiling of the Unemployed – An Exploratory Review of Reporting Standards0
The Use of Paternity Leave by Migrants in Spain0
Interactions between Child Labour and Schooling: Parental Perceptions in Rural and Urban Ghana0
The Cost-of-Living Crisis in the UK and Ireland: on Inflation, Indexation, and One-Off Policy Responses0
You Are Safe Here: Community Sponsorship Policy and Refugee Integration in the UK0
Representing the Social Problem of Dementia: Reflexions on Carol Bacchi’s What Is the Problem Represented to Be Approach0
Some Useful Sources0
LGBTQ+ Families, Welfare, and Same-sex Marriage Legalisation in Taiwan: A Social Policy Perspective0
SPS volume 22 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Some Useful Sources0
‘Build, Baby, Build’? A Critical Assessment of Housing Policy over the First Year of the Labour Government in the UK0
Internalised Individualism: Young People, Welfare Conditionality, and the Psychological Framing of Employment Aspirations0
The German National Minimum Wage Raised Employment Prospects of Unemployed Welfare Recipients0
Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities – CORRIGENDUM0
Introduction: It’s Not All About Bricks and Mortar: Experiences and Barriers in the Housing Crisis0
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Person-Centred Approach to Bridging South Korea’s Digital Divide0
From Conceptual Gaps to Policy Dialogue: Conceptual Approaches to Disability and Old Age in Ageing Research and Disability Studies0
Leveraging Policy Capabilities in Russia and Finland during the Pandemic0
‘Working With the Whole Person’: Employability Keyworker Experiences of Supporting People Furthest From the Labour Market0
Appraising the UK Labour Government’s Early Approach to Reforming Parental Leave: The Limits of Incrementalism for Gender Equality and Social Inclusion0
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