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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
SPS volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Front matter31
Family Intervention Projects as Poverty-Alleviating Measures: Results from a Norwegian Cluster-Randomised Study28
The Mixed Impact of Care Work on the Finances of Low-income Canadians: Insights from the Canadian Financial Diaries Research Project23
Compassionate Cites and Compassionate Communities: A Critical Interpretative Review20
Predicting Unpaid Care Work in India Using Random Forest: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors19
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Back matter19
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic16
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision15
Welfare Stigma, Need, and Benefit Take-Up among Low-Income Parents: The Impossible Triangle of Being a Good Parent in a Liberal Welfare City15
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Back matter14
Climate Crisis and Social Protection - From Worker Protection to Post-growth Transformation?13
Beyond the Work Society? Social Policy and the Reduction of Working Time13
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Back matter13
Social Spending and Income Inequality in Latin America. A Panel Data Approach12
Navigating the Australian Welfare System for Those Relying on Emergency and Community Food Assistance12
List of Referees for 202311
Some Useful Sources11
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Front matter10
Navigating the Contradictory Politics of being a Marginalised Migrant during Covid-1910
A Scoping Review on the Conceptualisation of Employer Engagement in the Employment of Vulnerable Workers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective9
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction9
Meeting Marginal Demands in New Welfare Governance? China’s Contracting of Welfare Services in the Sectors of Disability and HIV/AIDS8
Taxation, Environmental Sustainability, and Distributive Outcomes: Balancing Behavioural Change and Fairness8
“I’m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society”: Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes8
Linguistic Autonomy in a Monolingual Social Imaginary: Social Work Practitioners’ Sense-making of the Role of Language in Migrant ‘Integration’8
Taxation and Intergenerational Fairness: Exploring the Role of Inheritance Taxes with a Focus on Ireland7
Workplace Factors Associated with Employment of Refugees – Evidence from a Survey Among Danish Employers7
Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties7
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Back matter7
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy7
Not Free at All: Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care System7
Defamilisation, Familisation, and LGBTQ+ Studies7
The Supply Side of Personalisation in Disability Policies in the Welfare Service System7
Financial Exclusion in the UK: Evidence on Ethnicity6
The Conditionality of Trusting Caseworkers in the Social Services Sector – Insights from Germany and Denmark6
Assessing the Impact of Cash Transfer Programmes on Socioeconomic Outcomes in the MENA Region: A Systematic Review6
Varieties of Just Transition? Eco-Social Policy Approaches at the International Level6
An Ontology of Social and Economic Reproduction: Modern Slavery, Housing, and Critical Realism6
Dealing With COVID-19 in Czechia: Why Social Policies and Epidemiological Policies had Different Dynamics6
Disability and Regulatory Approaches to Employer Engagement: Cross-National Challenges in Bridging the Gap between Motivation and Hiring Practice6
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Front matter6
“They’re Not Thinking on the Same Side We Are”: Street-Level Activation of Parents under Universal Credit5
The Same Storm, but Different Boats: Unpicking the ‘Housing Crisis’5
SPS volume 21 issue 3 Cover and Front matter5
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector5
Editors’ Notes: Towards the Centenary of the ‘Beveridge Report’: A Debate on the Welfare State for the Next Twenty Years5
The Entrepreneurial Welfare Mix: The Case of Community-Based Old Age Services in China5
The Importance of Financial and Pension Literacy in Closing the Financial Advice Gap in the U.K.4
When Can Government Paternalist Interventions Be Justified? Welfare-to-Work and Interference Intentions4
Introduction to Themed Section – Trust and Distrust in Social Welfare: The Perspective of Users4
The Cross-Regional Impact of Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage Legalisation: The Queer Economy of Welfare Mix4
Understanding the Inflation and Social Policy Nexus4
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State4
SPS volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Front matter4
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion – CORRIGENDUM4
Redistribution and the Tax System: A Social Policy Perspective4
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry4
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work – CORRIGENDUM4
Critical Human Security, State Capacity, and Policy Challenges in a Post-Covid-19 World: South Korea and the UK4
Do Red-Flagged Clients Exit Social Assistance Earlier than Others? The Case of the Finnish Social Assistance System4
People’s Contrasting Attitudes Towards Universal Basic Income in Sweden and South Korea4
SPS volume 24 issue 1 Cover and Back matter4
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?3
A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services3
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England3
Governing the Family through Parental Responsibilisation and Professionalisation: An Analysis of the State ‘Family Education’ Discourses in Contemporary China3
Efficiency of the Long-Term Care Sector in Poland based on an Activities of Daily Living evaluation3
Silent Elements of Policy Change: Inflation and Uprating Mechanisms in the Low Countries3
The Role of Bureaucratic Procedures and ‘Caring Professionals’ in Fostering User Trust: Evidence from Serbia and the Czech Republic3
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea3
More than Money? Job Quality and Food Insecurity among Employed Lone Mother Households in the United States3
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
The Practical Politics of Doughnut Economics and Climate Crisis3
Contracting Out Social Services in China’s Three First-Tier Cities: Exploring ‘Variation’ through the Eyes of NGO Practitioners3
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary3
Making Sense of Bureaucratic Information: Conceptualising Bureaucratic Translation3
Children as Linguistic Rights Holders in the Swedish Welfare System3
Introduction: Personalisation and Collaboration: Dual Tensions in Individualised Funding Policy for Older and Disabled Persons3
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
Welfare Users’ Perceptions of Distributive Justice and Trust When Facing Institutional Enigma3
SPS volume 24 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland2
Coping with Gendered Welfare Stigma: Exploring Everyday Accounts of Stigma and Resistance Strategies among Mothers Who Claim Social Security Benefits2
List of Referees for 20222
Some Useful Sources – CORRIGENDUM2
Some Useful Sources2
How Have the Nordic Welfare States Responded to the Unexpected Increase in Inflation?2
SPS volume 22 issue 1 Cover and Front matter2
Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Policy Responses to Shared New Social Risks2
Accessing early childcare: A study of administrative barriers in France2
Co-creating Value in the Scandinavian Welfare System: Matching Elderly Care in a Major Swedish Municipality2
Risk Governance, State Capacity, and Critical Human Security: Evolution of Risk Governance in Response to Systemic Risk in the UK and South Korea2
Introduction: Policies and Practices Shaping Long-Term Care: Between an Inclusivity Ethos and Service Delivery Realities2
Conceptualising Linguistic Disadvantage in the Context of Diversifying Welfare Institutions2
SPS volume 22 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
LGBT+ Inclusion and Human Rights in Taiwan: A Scoping Review of the Literature2
The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Policies on Young Fathers: Comparative Insights from the UK and Sweden2
The Food Bank: A Safety-Net in Place of Welfare Security in Times of Austerity and the Covid-19 Crisis2
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
A Hidden Cost: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland2
Informal Care Provision and the Reduction of Economic Activity Among Mid-Life Carers in Great Britain – A Mixed-Methods Approach – ERRATUM2
Addressing Water Poverty Under Climate Crisis: Implications for Social Policy2
Security, Social Policy, Agency and Work of the Courts in Relation to Ukrainian Internally Displaced Persons2
Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection2
Some Useful Sources2
Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme2
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
Ambivalent Internationalisation: Reviewing Literature on the Social Policy Context for International Students in the United Kingdom and Implications for Social Exclusion2
SPS volume 22 issue 2 Cover and Front matter1
SPS volume 23 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Chinese and Australian Neoliberal Policy Responses to Risks in Social Service Purchasing1
Administrative Literacy in the Digital Welfare State: Migrants Navigating Access to Public Services in Finland – ERRATUM1
Autonomy and the Governance of ‘Ageing in Place’1
NGOs and the Promotion of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe1
SPS volume 21 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
SPS volume 23 issue 1 Cover and Front matter1
Policy Effects of the Statutory Minimum Wage in Hong Kong: Evidence from the General Household Survey from 2011 to 20191
Taxation and Social Need: Lessons from the Short-Lived UK Health and Social Care Levy1
How Does Automation Risk Shape Social Policy Preference? Employment Insecurity and Policy Feedback Effect in China1
Exploring the Alternatives to the Male-Breadwinner Model – The Implications for Social Policy Study1
Cracking the Nest Egg: Comparing Pension Politics in Post-Communist Russia and Hungary – ERRATUM1
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
The ‘Means Available to Relieve Suffering’: Translating Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards in Canadian Policy and Practice1
Business Structures, Stereotypes and Knowledge of Discrimination: Understanding Employers’ Support to Paid Family Leave in Hong Kong1
Are Young English People’s Attitudes Towards Employment Indicative of Whether They Have Spent a Large Proportion of Their Adult Lives Unemployed?1
SPS volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Southern Europe1
Northern Ireland Childcare Strategy: A Work in Progress?1
Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Asset-based Welfare and Housing in Great Britain1
Conceptualising socially inclusive environmental policy: a just transition to Net Zero1
Small Moments and Turning Points for Long-term Poor Families in Norway: The Lived Experience of Having a Family Coordinator1
Passing Stigma: Negotiations of Welfare Categories as Street Level Governmentality1
Exploring UK Public Attitudes Towards Stateless People: A Network Analysis0
Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities0
Governing Through (An Exclusive) Community: Limitations of State Conceptualisations of ‘the Community’ in Domestic Violence Policies0
Exclusionary Mechanisms of Social Policy Redistribution in Hungary0
Five Factors for Effective Policy to Improve Attitudes towards People with Disability0
Austerity, Poverty, and Children’s Services Quality in England: Consequences for Child Welfare and Public Services0
Care-Planning Co-Production Legislation, Policy and Guidance Implications for People Affected by Dementia in England: A Scoping Review0
Post-COVID, Digital Societies: Opportunities and Policy Challenges for Human Security in the United Kingdom and South Korea0
The Use of Paternity Leave by Migrants in Spain0
The Green Agenda: Why the Provision and Development of Gypsy/Traveller Sites in Scotland is a Health Hazard as Much as an Accommodation Priority0
The Impact of Employer Characteristics on Sustaining Employment for Workers with Reduced Capacity: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data0
Transforming Familialistic Youth Welfare Policies in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Higher Education Support Policies in Korea and Japan0
Some Useful Sources0
‘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
The Economic Cost of Unpaid Care to the Public Finances: Inequalities in Welfare Benefits, Forgone Earnings-related Tax Revenue, and Health Service Utilisation0
The Cost-of-Living Crisis in the UK and Ireland: on Inflation, Indexation, and One-Off Policy Responses0
Family and Community Role in the Provision of Informal Care for Older People Living with Chronic Life-limiting Illnesses in Rural Ghana0
Interactions between Child Labour and Schooling: Parental Perceptions in Rural and Urban Ghana0
Employment Inequalities Among British Minority Ethnic Workers in Health and Social Care at the Time of Covid-19: A Rapid Review of the Literature0
Administrative Burden in Citizen-State Encounters: The Role of Waiting, Communication Breakdowns and Administrative Errors0
Navigating Administrative Burden: The Role of Bureaucratic Self-Efficacy and Social Capital Among Ukrainian Asylum Seekers0
Freedom and Gender Equality in EU Family Policy Tools – ERRATUM0
Internalised Individualism: Young People, Welfare Conditionality, and the Psychological Framing of Employment Aspirations0
Welfare between Social and Human Rights – Charity in the New Social Landscape of Sweden0
You Are Safe Here: Community Sponsorship Policy and Refugee Integration in the UK0
SPS volume 21 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Partnership and Personalisation in Personal Care: Conflicts and Compromises0
Leveraging Policy Capabilities in Russia and Finland during the Pandemic0
The Effect of Social Pension on Material Hardship among Older Adults in Korea: Regression Discontinuity Estimation0
SPS volume 21 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Beyond the Budget: A Global Perspective on Social Spending through Tax Expenditures0
Critical Human Security, State Capacity, and Post-Pandemic Policy Challenges in Europe and East Asia0
“I Was Trusted for Once”: Imagining More Humane Income Supports Through the Ontario Basic Income Pilot0
What Role for Activation in Eco-Social Policy?0
SPS volume 23 issue 3 Cover and Back matter0
LGBTQ+ Families, Welfare, and Same-sex Marriage Legalisation in Taiwan: A Social Policy Perspective0
Using the Intersectional Approach to Social Policy to Investigate the Adult Worker Model0
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: A Person-Centred Approach to Bridging South Korea’s Digital Divide0
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
Why Do Families of Children with Disabilities Discontinue Using Rehabilitation Services? A Qualitative Study in Rural Mainland China0
Some Useful Sources0
Taking from the Disadvantaged? Consumption Tax Induced Poverty across Household Types in Eleven OECD Countries0
What Determines Social Service Workers’ Wages: A Cross-Country Analysis Using a Luxembourg Income Study0
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
Some Useful Sources0
Homelessness Transitions, Risks, and Prevention Across the Life Course0
Social Policy Attitudes in the UK: Distinguishing Welfarism from Statism0
Social Capital, Social Health Insurance, and Health-related Quality of Life among People with Chronic Disease: Cultural and Ideational Perspectives0
A Critical Review of Conceptualisation and Measurement of Social Inclusion: Directions for Conceptual Clarity0
Cities, Local Social Policy, and Critical Human Security in Times of Turbulence: Seoul and London Compared0
Vulnerability and Critical Human Security in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond in the UK and South Korea – ERRATUM0
Temporary Measures or Lasting Reform? Examining Gulf States’ Evolving Welfare Policies in Response to the Global Health Crisis0
SPS volume 23 issue 2 Cover and Front matter0
Introduction: Linguistic Disadvantage in Diversifying and Restructuring Welfare Societies0
Food for Thought: A Survey on the Nature of Work Precarity in Platform-Based On-Demand Work0
Defamilisation, Familisation, Debates on Same Sex Marriage Issues in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan – An Introduction – CORRIGENDUM0
Understanding Disability Policy Development: Integrating Social Policy Research with the Disability Studies Perspective0
SPS volume 22 issue 3 Cover and Front matter0
Economic Sanctions and the Material Well-being of Iranian Older Adults: Do Pensions Make a Difference?0
Social Policy Development Revisited: The Interplay between Push and Pull Factors in the Indonesian Healthcare Expansion0
Introduction: It’s Not All About Bricks and Mortar: Experiences and Barriers in the Housing Crisis0
Social Security, Gender and Class: The impacts of the Universal Credit Conditionality Regime on Unpaid Care and Paid Work0
Some Useful Sources0
Work First or Education First? Frontline Service Challenges of Providing Enabling Activation0
Introduction: Social Policy Challenges and the Role of Taxation0
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision – CORRIGENDUM0
The ‘Perfect Storm’: Food Banks and Food Insecurity During the Covid-19 Pandemic0
SPS volume 22 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
SPS volume 23 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Some Useful Sources0
Caring Piously: New Institutionalisation of Childcare Services in Turkey0
The German National Minimum Wage Raised Employment Prospects of Unemployed Welfare Recipients0
The Pervasiveness and Consequences of Market Failure in UK Sub-Prime Credit Markets and Challenges for Social Policy0
Why Curriculum and Culturally Responsive Teaching is Important in the Education of Refugee Children: Some Suggestions from the Field0
Have Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 Been Institutionalised?0
Some Useful Sources0
‘It Matters How They See You’: ‘Maternal Activation’ As a Strategy to Navigate Contradictory Discourses of Motherhood and Neoliberal Activism in the Welsh Homelessness System0
Tackling Ethnic Minority Disadvantage: The Differential Impact of Short-term and Long-term-Oriented Strategies on Subsequent Job Matches and Sustainable Employment0
How did COVID-19 Social Security Measures Resemble Universal Basic Income? A Comparative Study of OECD Countries0
Some Useful Resources0
SPS volume 22 issue 4 Cover and Front matter0
Agendas of Reform: Continuity and Change in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)0
Migrants’ Relational Experiences with the Welfare State at the Street Level: A Focus on the Role of Language0
Introduction: Mapping the Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities0
“We Pupils Had to Hear…” Marginalised Youths’ Experiences of Racialising Language and Symbolic Violence in Swedish Schools0
Some Useful Sources0
Institutional Sources of Citizens’ Trust in the Welfare State: A Literature Review0
Representing the Social Problem of Dementia: Reflexions on Carol Bacchi’s What Is the Problem Represented to Be Approach0
SPS volume 24 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
The Relationship Between Public Policy and Grandparents’ Involvement in Childcare: A Scoping Review of the International Evidence0
Introduction: Social Policy Responses and Institutional Reforms in the Pandemic0
Does China Need a Carers’ Policy? A Reflection Based on the Caregiving Experience of Older Carers0
SPS volume 24 issue 1 Cover and Front matter0
Institutional Dimension of Burnout in Governmental Psychosocial and Community Programmes: Gaps between Intervening Conditions, Consequences, and Guidelines for Improvement0
Introduction: Interrogating Welfare Stigma0
SPS volume 24 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
Factors Associated with Preventive Care Utilisation among Chinese Older Adults: Evidence from the 2018 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey0
Some Useful Sources0
Comparative Studies of Russian and European Welfare Polities – CORRIGENDUM0
About Waiting: A Reading from Social Policies and Emotions in the Context of a Pandemic0
Tracing State Accountability for COVID-19: Representing Care within Ireland’s Response to the Pandemic0
Framing and Shaming: The 2017 Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All Campaign0
Global Trends in Social Inclusion and Social Inclusion Policy: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda0
Food (In)Security Policy in Canada (and Likely Elsewhere) has been Derailed by Attention to Food Access0
Introduction: Social Policy and the Climate Crisis0
Breaking the Impasse: Rethinking Refugee Integration through the Equality Act 2010 in the United Kingdom0
Social Policy Responses to Rising Inflation in Canada and the United States0
‘Working With the Whole Person’: Employability Keyworker Experiences of Supporting People Furthest From the Labour Market0
Does the Labour Service Cooperation Policy Promote Re-employment: Evidence from China0
If Not Now, Then When? Pathways to Embed Climate Change Within Social Policy0
An Intersectional Approach to Family Life: Reflections on Same-Sex Marriage, Familisation Risks, and Defamilisation Risks in Mainland China0
Economic, Normative, and Moral Reasoning in Employer Attitudes to Maternity Leave0
From Conceptual Gaps to Policy Dialogue: Conceptual Approaches to Disability and Old Age in Ageing Research and Disability Studies0
Making a Case for Centring Energy Poverty in Social Policy in Light of the Climate Emergency: A Global Integrative Review0
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