OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy and Society is 4. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualising the Role of Deservingness in Migrants’ Access to Social Services	26
Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States	25
What Do We Know About Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Participation in UK Higher Education?	25
Developing a New Conceptual Framework of Meaningful Interaction for Understanding Social Isolation and Loneliness	19
Modern Monetary Theory and the Changing Role of Tax in Society	16
Determinants of Public Support for Eco-Social Policies: A Comparative Theoretical Framework	15
Deserving of Social Support? Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Decisions on EU Migrants’ Benefit Claims in Germany	14
Fluid Enquiry, Complex Causality, Policy Processes: Making a Difference with Qualitative Longitudinal Research	13
Two Scenarios for Sustainable Welfare: A Framework for an Eco-Social Contract	13
Income Support in an Eco-Social State: The Case for Participation Income	12
Retrenched, Reconfigured and Broken: The British Welfare State after a Decade of Austerity	12
Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Monochrome to Technicolour	11
Into the Promised Land: Modelling the Role of Take-Up Agents in Realising Welfare Rights	11
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries	11
Revisiting Global Welfare Regimes: Gender, (In)formal Employment and Care	11
Towards a Capability-Oriented Eco-Social Policy: Elements of a Normative Framework	11
The Global Spread of Death Café: A Cultural Intervention Relevant to Policy?	11
Employment Inequalities Among British Minority Ethnic Workers in Health and Social Care at the Time of Covid-19: A Rapid Review of the Literature	11
Insecurity and Historical Legacies in Welfare Regime Change in Southeast Asia – Insights from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand	10
The Food Bank: A Safety-Net in Place of Welfare Security in Times of Austerity and the Covid-19 Crisis	10
The Centrality of Taxation to Social Policy	10
Street-Level Judgements about Welfare Deservingness: How Jobcentre Advisors Decide about the Individual Mix of ‘Support’ and ‘Demand’ in the Delivery of Activation Policies	9
Towards a Sustainable Welfare State: The Role of Universal Basic Services	9
Introduction Qualitative Longitudinal Research for Social Policy – Where Are We Now?	8
The Role of Social Support Networks in Helping Low Income Families through Uncertain Times	8

Right-Wing Populism and the Securitisation of Laïcité Narratives in French Education Policy	8
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State	8
Coping with Gendered Welfare Stigma: Exploring Everyday Accounts of Stigma and Resistance Strategies among Mothers Who Claim Social Security Benefits	8
Examining Attitudes towards Welfare in an In/Security Regime: Evidence from Ghana	8
Property and Social Citizenship: Social Policy beyond the North	7
Introduction: Global Welfare Regimes Revisited	7
Crisis Management, Policy Reform, and Institutions: The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 in Australia	7
Poverty by Design: The Role of Charity and the Cultivated Ethical Citizen	7
Revisiting Global Welfare Regime Classifications	7
What Is Out There and What Can We Learn? International Evidence on Funding and Delivery of Long-Term Care	7
Older Carers and Carers of People with Dementia: Improving and Developing Effective Support	7
Employer Engagement in Promoting the Labour-Market Participation of Jobseekers with Disabilities. An Employer Perspective	7
Employer Engagement and Active Labour Market Policies. Evidence from a Norwegian Multi-Method Study	6
Families, Work and Care: Qualitative Longitudinal Research and Policy Engagement	6
Universal Credit and Automated Decision Making: A Case of the Digital Tail Wagging the Policy Dog?	6
Diversifying the Social Policy Curriculum: A Collaborative Approach	6
Reconceptualising Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment during the Pandemic: The Case of Creative Industry	6
Building the Evidence for Family Violence Policy Reform: The Work of Specialist Women’s Refuges in Victoria, Australia	6
The Brexit Religion and the Holy Grail of the NHS	6
The Legacy of Austerity	5
Has Social Policy Expansion in Latin America Reduced Welfare Decommodification and Defamilialisation? Evidence from an Overview of the Mexican Welfare Regime	5
Self-funders: Still By-Standers in the English Social Care Market?	5
Child Support in Shared Care Cases: Do Child Support Policies in Thirteen Countries Reflect Family Policy Models?	5
Introduction: A Hostile Decade for Social Policy: Economic Crisis, Political Crisis and Austerity 2010-20	5
Hidden Homelessness: A Scoping Review and Avenues for Further Inquiry	5
Relationships in the Implementation of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Provision of Health in the Oportunidades-Prospera Programme in Puebla, Mexico	5
Deservingness and Uneven Geographies of Asylum Accommodation	5
Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users	5
Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry	5
Limits to Transformational Potential: Analysing Entitlement and Agency within a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines	5
Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme	5
More than a Free Lunch: A Content Analysis of the Controversies Surrounding Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter	5
Populism, Religion and Catholic Civil Society in Poland: The Case of Primary Education	5
In-cash Transfers: from Passive to Empowered Beneficiaries in the Global South	5
Intra-Crisis Lesson-Drawing in Real-Time: The Pandemic Lessons Available in the UK Media during the First Months of COVID-19	5
Examining the Consequences of Welfare Conditionality: A Case Study of Compulsory Income Management in the Regional Community of Ceduna, Australia	5
Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany	4
Engaging with Decolonisation, Tackling Antigypsyism: Lessons from Teaching Romani Studies at the Central European University in Hungary	4
Building Social Policies in Fiscal Welfare	4
Enough is Enough: De-colonise, Diversify and De-construct the Curriculum	4
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England	4
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision	4
Deservingness in Judicial Discourse. An Analysis of the Legal Reasoning Adopted in Dutch Case Law on Irregular Migrant Families’ Access to Shelter	4
Introduction: Interrogating Welfare Stigma	4
Understanding the ‘Tipped Minimum Wage’: Critical Directions for US Policy Research	4
Charting the Rough Journey to ‘Home’: The Contribution of Qualitative Longitudinal Research to Understandings of Homelessness in Austerity	4
Passing Stigma: Negotiations of Welfare Categories as Street Level Governmentality	4
Sick and Vulnerable Migrants in French Public Hospitals. The Administrative and Budgetary Dimension of Un/Deservingness	4
What Role for Activation in Eco-Social Policy?	4
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic	4

Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future	4
Mixed Services and Mediated Deservingness: Access to Housing for Migrants in Greece	4
Colonial Disparities in Higher Education: Explaining Racial Inequality for Māori Youth in Aotearoa New Zealand	4
Introduction: Taxation and Social Policy	4
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary	4
Government Transfers and Poverty Alleviation among Older Adults in the United States from 2002 to 2014	4
Private Pensions and the Gender Distribution of Fiscal Welfare	4
Ideas and Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia	4
Lived Realities of Lonely Older People: Resisting Idealisations of ‘Home’	4