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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Social Policy Without Growth: Moving Towards Sustainable Welfare States	41
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 Services	30
Two Scenarios for Sustainable Welfare: A Framework for an Eco-Social Contract	25
Determinants of Public Support for Eco-Social Policies: A Comparative Theoretical Framework	23
Developing a New Conceptual Framework of Meaningful Interaction for Understanding Social Isolation and Loneliness	22
Fluid Enquiry, Complex Causality, Policy Processes: Making a Difference with Qualitative Longitudinal Research	18
Deserving of Social Support? Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Decisions on EU Migrants’ Benefit Claims in Germany	18
Towards a Sustainable Welfare State: The Role of Universal Basic Services	18
Retrenched, Reconfigured and Broken: The British Welfare State after a Decade of Austerity	17
Income Support in an Eco-Social State: The Case for Participation Income	17
Towards a Capability-Oriented Eco-Social Policy: Elements of a Normative Framework	16
Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Monochrome to Technicolour	16
The Food Bank: A Safety-Net in Place of Welfare Security in Times of Austerity and the Covid-19 Crisis	15
Enabling Participation Income for an Eco-Social State	13
Employment Inequalities Among British Minority Ethnic Workers in Health and Social Care at the Time of Covid-19: A Rapid Review of the Literature	13
Hidden Homelessness: A Scoping Review and Avenues for Further Inquiry	13
Trying to Reverse Demographic Decline: Pro-Natalist and Family Policies in Russia, Poland and Hungary	12
Social Policy Responses to Covid-19 in the Global South: Evidence from 36 Countries	12
Into the Promised Land: Modelling the Role of Take-Up Agents in Realising Welfare Rights	11
Older Carers and Carers of People with Dementia: Improving and Developing Effective Support	9
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 Australia	9
Employer Engagement and Active Labour Market Policies. Evidence from a Norwegian Multi-Method Study	9

Coping with Gendered Welfare Stigma: Exploring Everyday Accounts of Stigma and Resistance Strategies among Mothers Who Claim Social Security Benefits	9
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, Australia	8
What Is Out There and What Can We Learn? International Evidence on Funding and Delivery of Long-Term Care	8
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 Approach	8
Poverty by Design: The Role of Charity and the Cultivated Ethical Citizen	8
Right-Wing Populism and the Securitisation of Laïcité Narratives in French Education Policy	8
Covid-19 and the Crisis in Social Care: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled People in the Pandemic	8
Unequal and Gendered: Assessing the Impacts of Austerity Cuts on Public Service Users	7
Responding to Complexity in the Context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme	7
The Brexit Religion and the Holy Grail of the NHS	7
Colonial Disparities in Higher Education: Explaining Racial Inequality for Māori Youth in Aotearoa New Zealand	7
Populism, Religion and Catholic Civil Society in Poland: The Case of Primary Education	7
Deservingness and Uneven Geographies of Asylum Accommodation	7
Are Older Adults’ Leisure Patterns Consistent with the Active Ageing Model? The Influence of the Ageist Stereotypes	7
The Legacy of Austerity	7
Ideas and Policy Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from Jakarta, Indonesia	7
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
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 Hungary	6
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?	6
Tracing State Accountability for COVID-19: Representing Care within Ireland’s Response to the Pandemic	6
Welfare Reform and Housing Insecurity: The Impact of Universal Credit Rollout on Demand for Rent Arrears and Homelessness Advice from Citizens Advice in England	6
Limits to Transformational Potential: Analysing Entitlement and Agency within a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the Philippines	5
Introduction: A Hostile Decade for Social Policy: Economic Crisis, Political Crisis and Austerity 2010-20	5
Charting the Rough Journey to ‘Home’: The Contribution of Qualitative Longitudinal Research to Understandings of Homelessness in Austerity	5
In-cash Transfers: from Passive to Empowered Beneficiaries in the Global South	5
Government Contracting Services to Social Organisations in China: A Review of Research for Future Enquiry	5
Managing Work and Care: Does Employing a Live-in Migrant Care Worker Fill the Gap? The Example of Taiwan	5
The Management of Retirement Savings Among Financially Heterogamous Couples	5
Mapping Shifts in Russian and European Welfare Polities: Explaining Policy Responses to Shared New Social Risks	5
Conceptualising the Relationship Between Formal and Informal Social Protection	5
Intra-Crisis Lesson-Drawing in Real-Time: The Pandemic Lessons Available in the UK Media during the First Months of COVID-19	5
More than a Free Lunch: A Content Analysis of the Controversies Surrounding Universal Basic Income on Dutch Twitter	5
Introduction: Interrogating Welfare Stigma	5
Breaking Up Is Risky Business: Personalisation and Collaboration in a Marketised Disability Sector	5
Othering in Media Representations of Elderly Care: Using the Social Justice Framework to Make Sense of Public Discourses on Migrants and Culture	4
Checking Activation at the Door: Rethinking the Welfare-Work Nexus in Light of Australia’s Covid-19 Response	4
Enough is Enough: De-colonise, Diversify and De-construct the Curriculum	4
No Place for Old Men? Meeting the Needs of an Ageing Male Prison Population in England and Wales	4
Introduction: The (Un)Deserving Migrant? Street-Level Bordering Practices and Deservingness in Access to Social Services	4
Framing and Shaming: The 2017 Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All Campaign	4
Deservingness in Judicial Discourse. An Analysis of the Legal Reasoning Adopted in Dutch Case Law on Irregular Migrant Families’ Access to Shelter	4
Mixed Services and Mediated Deservingness: Access to Housing for Migrants in Greece	4
Passing Stigma: Negotiations of Welfare Categories as Street Level Governmentality	4
Partnership and Personalisation in Personal Care: Conflicts and Compromises	4
Introduction: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State	4

A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services	4
The Production of Employment Conditions for Migrant Care Workers: Cross National Perspectives	4
Applying Neo-Republican Theory to Welfare to Work Practices: Rules and Arbitrary Power in Mandatory Work Programmes in the Netherlands	4
Which Duration of Unemployment Benefits is Perceived as Being Just for Which Groups? Results from a Factorial Survey Experiment in Germany	4
Sick and Vulnerable Migrants in French Public Hospitals. The Administrative and Budgetary Dimension of Un/Deservingness	4
Religion, Populism, and the Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals	4
Prostitution and Sex Work, Who Counts? Mapping Local Data to Inform Policy and Service Provision	4
Extra Care Housing: The Current State of Research and Prospects for the Future	4
Rethinking Knowledge Production in Sociology: A Critical Analysis of the Conceptual, the Methodological and the Institutional	4