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Building a wall around the welfare state, or around the country? Preferences for immigrant welfare inclusion and immigration policy openness in Europe Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Alexandre Afonso, Samir Mustafa Negash
Existing research on welfare chauvinism, which involves preferences about the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants in welfare programmes, often overlooks individual preferences regarding immigration policy openness (the number of immigrants allowed into a country). This article posits that these two dimensions should be considered together. The reason is that the implications of including or excluding
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A step too far: Employer perspectives on in-work conditionality Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Katy Jones, Calum Carson
This chapter explores employer perspectives on the extension of behavioural conditionality to working social security claimants (‘in-work conditionality’). As policymakers across Europe and other developed nations have pursued increasingly interventionist approaches to activating the unemployed through conditional welfare policies, the UK has gone a significant and ‘unprecedented’ step further by requiring
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Welfare Euroscepticism and socioeconomic status Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Gianna M Eick
While the European Union (EU) increasingly strengthens its social integration, opposition towards this process can also be observed, here defined as ‘welfare Euroscepticism’. To better understand this newly defined policy paradigm, this article aims to explain longstanding cleavages in both social policy and EU research: socioeconomic status (SES) divides. Contrary to the literature on public support
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Unravelling the relationship between employment, social transfers and income poverty: Policy and measurement Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 András Gábos, Barbara Binder, Réka Branyiczki, István György Tóth
Despite the rise in employment, consistently high EU-average poverty rates continue to generate debates about the factors that explain the level and changes in the relative poverty rate, both within and across countries. Assuming a strong negative correlation between poverty and employment, the article investigates the role of four mechanisms responsible for this blurred relationship. Using decomposition
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Shifts at the margin of European welfare states: How important is food aid in complementing inadequate minimum incomes? Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Karen Hermans, Bea Cantillon, Sarah Marchal
In recent decades, disappointing poverty trends and welfare state limitations in many European countries – including constraints on minimum income benefits – have paved the way for a larger role of the third sector. An interesting but controversial form of third-sector in-kind support is food aid provision. In Europe, food aid is, so far, a non-rights-based practice displaying worrisome discretionary
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Disciplinary welfare and the punitive turn in criminal justice: Parallel trends or communicating vessels? Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger
When it comes to the relationship between social policy and penal policy, existing scholarship often focuses on the penal–welfare tradeoff, according to which countries with large and generous welfare states tend to have lower incarceration rates and less harsh treatment of offenders. We know much less about the relationship between the punitive turn in criminal justice and the use of discipline within
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Treating nations like people: How responsibility attributions shape citizens’ fiscal solidarity with other EU countries Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Patrick Clasen
Scholars have so far not paid sufficient attention to the role of attributed responsibility of countries when they need to explain variations of European fiscal solidarity. Do citizens consider the responsibility of other countries when expressing solidarity with them? This article advances the argument that individuals apply similar heuristics to countries as to other individuals. When expressing
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Partisan preference divides regarding welfare chauvinism and welfare populism – Appealing only to radical right voters or beyond? Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Matthias Enggist, Silja Häusermann
Welfare chauvinism and welfare populism as characteristic features of radical right parties’ welfare stances have become challenges to the welfare state. However, in order to understand how these claims may indeed affect welfare politics, it is essential to study whether welfare chauvinism and welfare populism attract voters beyond the radical right, especially among the mainstream right or even parts
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Agency, institutions, and welfare chauvinism: Tracing the exclusion of European Union migrant citizens from social assistance in Germany Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Dominic Afscharian, Cecilia Bruzelius, Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
What explains welfare chauvinistic policy reform, that is, targeted exclusion of non-citizens from welfare? Existing research suggest that contextual factors like far-right party success, perceived immigration pressures, party ideologies and institutions could spur such reform, but the processes behind reforms remain understudied. This article draws on public policy literature to call attention the
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Is part-time employment a temporary ‘stepping stone’ or a lasting ‘mommy track’? Legislation and mothers’ transition to full-time employment in Germany Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Uta Brehm, Nadja Milewski
Research on reconciling family and employment debates if maternal part-time employment works as ‘stepping stone’ to full-time employment or as gateway to a long-term ‘mommy track’. We analyse how mothers’ transition from part-time to full-time employment is shaped by changing reconciliation legislations and how this is moderated by reconciliation-relevant factors like individual behaviours and macro
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Categorizing discourses of welfare chauvinism: Temporal, selective, functional and cultural dimensions Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Benjamin Leruth, Peter Taylor-Gooby, Adrienn Győry
Welfare chauvinism, that is, the exclusion of non-citizens who live permanently within a state from social benefits and services, has become a mainstream form of welfare policy opposition advocated by some political parties and members of the public. While existing studies have successfully cast a light on the roots and scope of these policies, welfare chauvinism effectively encompasses a wide range
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The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Elias Naumann, Marvin M Brinkmann, Katja Möhring
This study investigates whether pensioners with a foreign ethnic background are perceived as less deserving to receive a pension than are native pensioners. It focuses on Germany as an example with a strongly achievement-oriented social insurance system which closely links benefits to previous contributions. Hence, the system prevents a citizen from receiving benefits without having contributed. Our
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Varying effects of public pensions: Pension spending and old-age employment under different pension regimes Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Kun Lee
Socioeconomic consequences of pension reforms have often been discussed without careful consideration of institutional contexts, despite the fact that institutional designs of public pensions differ substantially across countries. This study argues that the outcomes of pension reforms vary depending on the institutional structure of public pensions, by showing that the associations between public pension
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Welfare chauvinism in times of crises: The impact of the radical right political discourse Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Rosan Haenraets, Femke Roosma
This article examines the impact of the radical right political discourse on welfare chauvinistic attitudes over time. Using data from two rounds of the European Social Survey (2008/09 and 2016/17), the Comparative Political Data Set and the Manifesto Project for 17 European countries, our analyses show that radical right mobilization and the salience of political rhetoric framed on cultural diversity
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Invisible social Europe? Linking citizens' awareness of European cohesion funds, individual power resources, and support for the EU. Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Marcello Natili,Stefano Ronchi,Francesco Visconti
In the twentieth century national social policies stabilized the European state systems, favouring domestic concordance and citizens' support to the nation-building process. Welfare institutions have historically served this key political function also in federal systems, where social citizenship has been used as a tool to foster unity. In contrast, even though the EU devotes a consistent part of its
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Priming or learning? The influence of pension policy information on individual preferences in Germany, Spain and the United States Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Juan J Fernández, Gema García-Albacete, Antonio M Jaime-Castillo, Jonas Radl
A promising approach to pension policy preferences focuses on the influence of policy related information. We advance this research programme by examining the impact of information about future pen...
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Explaining willingness to pay taxes: The role of income, education, ideology Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Olivier Jacques
While the drivers of preferences about tax progressivity and redistribution are well identified, the study of willingness to pay taxes remains underdeveloped. This article uses the 2016 ISSP on the...
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Psychological barriers to take-up of healthcare and child support benefits in the Netherlands Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Olaf Simonse, Marike Knoef, Lotte F Van Dillen, Wilco W Van Dijk, Eric Van Dijk
We empirically test an integral model for healthcare and child support benefits take-up using a probability sample of the Dutch population (N = 905). To examine how different psychological factors,...
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Does it pay to say ‘I do’? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Michael Christl, Silvia De Poli, Viginta Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė
We analyse the different fiscal treatment of married and cohabiting couples across all EU Member States using microsimulation methods. Our article highlights important differences across EU countri...
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Perceptions and realities: Explaining welfare chauvinism in Europe Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 David Andreas Bell, Marko Valenta, Zan Strabac
Welfare chauvinism is largely understood as the view that the benefits of the welfare state should primarily be given to the native population, and not shared with the immigrant populations. Using ...
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Delegating migration control to local welfare actors: Reporting obligations in practice Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Cecilia Bruzelius, Nora Ratzmann, Lea Reiss
Most research on the social policy–migration control link focuses on indirect control, that is, denying access to welfare. This article instead draws attention to how welfare institutions are made ...
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Rent price control – yet another great equalizer of economic inequalities? Evidence from a century of historical data Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Konstantin A Kholodilin, Sebastian Kohl
The long-run U-shaped patterns of economic inequality are standardly explained by basic economic trends (Piketty’s r > g), taxation policies or ‘great levellers’ such as catastrophes. This article ...
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Gendered employment patterns: Women’s labour market outcomes across 24 countries Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Helen Kowalewska
An accepted framework for ‘gendering’ the analysis of welfare regimes compares countries by degrees of ‘defamilialization’ or how far their family policies support or undermine women’s employment p...
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Gendered labour market patterns across Europe: Does family policy mitigate feminization of outsiders? Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Hyojin Seo
Studies have shown positive impact of family policies on women’s labour market participation over the last decades. How, then, does it influence the types of jobs women obtain when they (re-)enter ...
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An illiberal welfare state emerging? Welfare efforts and trajectories under democratic backsliding in Hungary and Turkey Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Dorottya Szikra, Kerem Gabriel Öktem
Mainstream western-centric welfare state research has mostly confined itself to studying social policy in consolidated democracies and tends to assume a synergy between democracy and the welfare st...
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Can a federal minimum wage alleviate poverty and income inequality? Ex-post and simulation evidence from Germany Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Teresa Backhaus, Kai-Uwe Müller
Minimum wages are increasingly discussed as an instrument against (in-work) poverty and income inequality in Europe. Just recently the German government opted for a substantial ad-hoc increase of t...
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Attitudes toward healthcare performance in Europe, 2002–2017: How absolute and relative measures can reveal different patterns Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Iris Moolla, Paul Lambert
Citizens’ attitudes towards their national healthcare are important indicators of satisfaction and of political perspectives. In this article we summarise individual and national level patterns in ...
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Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce? Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Dorian Kessler, Debra Hevenstone, Leen Vandecasteele, Samin Sepahniya
This study examines whether unemployment insurance benefit generosity impacts divorce, drawing on full population administrative data and a Swiss reform that reduced unemployment insurance maximum ...
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Comparative mainstreaming? Mapping the uses of the comparative method in social policy, sociology and political science since the 1970s Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Emanuele Ferragina, Christopher Deeming
This article maps the development and uses of the comparative method in academic research since the 1970s. It is based on an original database that we constructed for our review of 12,483 articles ...
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What distinguishes radical right welfare chauvinism? Excluding different migrant groups from the welfare state Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Juliana Chueri
Literature posits that mainstream right-wing parties have adopted restrictive positions on immigrants’ entitlements to social rights to avoid losing votes to populist radical right-wing parties (PR...
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Nice work if you can get it: Labour market pathways of Belgian service voucher workers Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Dries Lens, Ive Marx, Jarmila Oslejová, Ninke Mussche
Seen as an alternative to precarious, informal work or no job at all, several European countries have started to use tax money to boost the demand for domestic services. This article asks whether t...
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Explaining public support for demanding activation of the unemployed: The role of subjective risk perceptions and stereotypes about the unemployed Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Federica Rossetti, Bart Meuleman, Sharon Baute
In recent decades, European welfare states have adopted demanding active labour market policies (ALMPs), aimed at increasing labour market participation through imposing stricter work-related oblig...
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The welfare state and support for environmental action in Europe Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Anne-Marie Parth, Tim Vlandas
How do welfare state policies affect the political support for environmental action of economically vulnerable social groups? Two competing hypotheses can be delineated. On the one hand, a synergy ...
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Needs or obligations? The influence of childcare infrastructure and support norms on grandparents’ labour market participation Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Ariane Bertogg
This study investigates how institutional and normative characteristics affect grandparents’ labour market participation. Previous studies indicate that providing regular grandchild care reduces la...
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Indicators of familialism and defamilialization in long-term care: A theoretical overview and introduction of macro-level indicators Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Ellen Verbakel, Karen Glaser, Yasmina Amzour, Martina Brandt, Marjolein Broese van Groenou
Many countries have been working on revising their long-term care (LTC) policies to meet the increasing demand for care. Generally, little attention is paid to the potential (unintended) consequenc...
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Family as a redistributive principle of welfare states: An international comparison Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Patricia Frericks, Martin Gurín
Redistribution is one of the main characteristics of the welfare state, and welfare state research has dealt intensely with various facets of it. The main focus in analysing redistribution is on th...
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SOS incomes: simulated effects of COVID-19 and emergency benefits on individual and household income distribution in Italy Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Giovanni Gallo, Michele Raitano
Using a static microsimulation model based on a link between survey and administrative data, this article investigates the effects of the pandemic on income distribution in Italy in 2020. The analy...
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The wage and career consequences of temporary employment in Europe: Analysing the theories and synthesizing the evidence Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Jonathan P Latner, Nicole Saks
In Europe, the consequences of temporary employment are at the centre of a social policy debate about whether there is a trade-off between efficiency and equity when deregulating labour markets. Ho...
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Sometimes needs change minds: Interests and values as determinants of attitudes towards state support for the self-employed during the COVID-19 crisis Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Giuliano Bonoli, Flavia Fossati, Mia Gandenberger, Carlo Michael Knotz
This contribution investigates public attitudes toward providing financial help to the self-employed, a less well-researched area in the otherwise vibrant literature on welfare state attitudes. We ...
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Moving towards fairer regional minimum income schemes in Spain Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Adrián Hernández, Fidel Picos, Sara Riscado
Minimum income schemes aim at providing citizens with a minimum living standard. In some EU countries, their regulation and provision takes place at the subnational level. This is the case in Spain...
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Higher education in welfare regimes: Three worlds of post-Soviet transition Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Sergey Malinovskiy, Ekaterina Shibanova
Higher education has generally been excluded from the welfare discourse, especially in transition countries. This article addresses existing research gaps by applying the ideas of decommodification...
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Activation: a thematic and conceptual review Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Jochen Clasen, Clara Mascaro
Activation as a social policy topic has been investigated since the late 1990s and continues to be popular in academic analysis and discourse. In this review, we highlight the wide range of researc...
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Learning losses and educational inequalities in Europe: Mapping the potential consequences of the COVID-19 crisis Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-05-29 Zsuzsa Blaskó, Patricia da Costa, Sylke V Schnepf
It is widely discussed that the pandemic has impacted educational inequalities across the world. However, in contrast to data on health or unemployment, data on education outcomes are not timely. H...
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The persistence of legal uncertainty on EU citizens’ access to social benefits in Germany Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Angie Gago, Constantin Hruschka
Legal uncertainty may hinder the effective implementation of public policies. Still, the political and legal dynamics that underpin its persistence are underexplored. This article proposes that legal uncertainty is more likely to persist in multi-level political and legal systems where actors with authority on the same issue hold different interpretations of rules. Also, it suggests that, under these
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English ‘iron rod’ welfare versus Italian ‘colander’ welfare: understanding the intra-European mobility strategies of unaccompanied young migrants and refugees Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Jennifer Allsopp
The experiences of unaccompanied young migrants and refugees challenge the idea of a common European asylum policy but also show that traditional welfare typologies used to account for differences in welfare across states fail to account for the lived experiences of this group. They do not consider the shifting categorizations of young migrants in institutional terms, nor how the stratification of
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The welfare state in really hard times: Political trust and satisfaction with the German healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Marius R Busemeyer
The COVID-19 pandemic represents an enormous challenge for healthcare systems around the globe. Using original panel survey data for the case of Germany, this article studies how specific trust in the healthcare system to cope with this crisis has evolved during the course of the pandemic and whether this specific form of trust is associated with general political trust. The article finds strong evidence
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Determinants of (in-)voluntary retirement: A systematic literature review Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Philipp Stiemke, Moritz Hess
Involuntary retirement transitions have a variety of negative consequences for individuals and society as they can lead to poorer health or lower wellbeing. Therefore, it is of high relevance to better understand the factors influencing the voluntariness of retirement transitions. A systematic literature review was conducted to identify the known determinants of the voluntariness of retirement. Our
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The (in)equality dynamic of childcare-related policy development in post-Yugoslav countries Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Ivana Dobrotić
This article explores the (in)equality dynamic of childcare-related policy reforms in post-Yugoslav countries to expose ‘silent’ cleavages embedded in parenting leaves and early childhood education and care policies design that may challenge or reinforce parental (in)equalities in employment and care opportunities. It is guided by the principles and (sub-)questions of intersectionality-based policy
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Populations trust in the child protection system: A cross-country comparison of nine high-income jurisdictions Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Marit Skivenes, Rami Benbenishty
In this study, we examine the trust placed by the populations of nine jurisdictions in their child protection systems. These systems protect children’s rights and grant authority for invasive interventions to curtail or even terminate parental rights and responsibilities. We have representative samples of the populations of each jurisdiction. The results show that about 40–50% of respondents express
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Does social policy change impact on politics? A review of policy feedbacks on citizens’ political participation and attitudes towards politics Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Margherita Bussi, Claire Dupuy, Virginie Van Ingelgom
This article asks how the most prominent recent changes in European welfare states are relevant for citizens’ political participation and attitudes toward politics, specifically citizens’ political efficacy, political interest, political trust and attribution of responsibility. We consider changes in benefits, in the form of generosity levels and conditionality, and changes in modes of delivery, including
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Between the territory and the legacies: The politicization of active labour market policy in southern Europe Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Giovanni Amerigo Giuliani, Dario Raspanti
The literature concerning active labour market policy (ALMP) in advanced economies during the post-Fordist Age is very informative. Nevertheless, surprisingly, we know little about ALMP politicization. By focusing on two archetypes of the Mediterranean countries, Italy and Spain, this study argues that the geographical distribution of social stratification affects ALMP politicization at the national
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Care home closure and the influence of domiciliary care supply: Evidence from England Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Stephen Allan
There is a general trend of increased marketization of long-term care (LTC) services across Europe, with the natural consequence that market forces will affect the supply of LTC. At the same time, there has been a rapid increase in the use of home-based provision for those requiring LTC support. However, there is little evidence about what the effects of growing domiciliary care provision has on the
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Public policies supporting families with children across welfare regimes: An empirical assessment of six European countries Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Martina Pezer
Public policies supporting families with children differ among countries but with the same goal of improving the well-being of children. Using a microsimulation model, this article assesses the cash support which families receive for their children in Croatia, Greece, Germany, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The impact of policies across the income distribution on different family
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Political party families and student social rights Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-04-10 Krzysztof Czarnecki
The article conceptualizes student funding systems in order to investigate their ideological and political underpinnings. Using different long-term measures of cumulative power of four-party families and their combinations, and the newly created Student Support and Fees Dataset, it shows that the variety of student social rights in 32 high-income democracies in 2015 can be linked to past partisan politics
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A new poverty indicator for Europe: The extended headcount ratio Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Tim Goedemé, Benoit Decerf, Karel Van den Bosch
The methodology currently used to measure poverty in the European Union faces some important limitations. Capturing key aspects of poverty is done using a dashboard of indicators, which often tell conflicting stories. We propose a new income-based measure of poverty for Europe that captures in a consistent way in a single indicator the level of relative poverty, the intensity of poverty, poverty with
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Local cultural context as a moderator of the impact of childcare on maternal employment: Evidence from a natural experiment Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Lukas Fervers, Anna Kurowska
In spite of increasing levels of female employment, having a child below school age often goes along with a substantial decrease in employment engagement for women. Consequently, previous family policy research suggests that increasing childcare availability might be a promising tool to facilitate maternal employment as it increases the economic incentive to take up work. Another line of reasoning
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Thirty years of welfare chauvinism research: Findings and challenges Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Romana Careja, Eloisa Harris
The term ‘welfare chauvinism’ has achieved a certain currency in social science research and is used widely. Yet, the concept is not without its critics, who claim that welfare chauvinism is ‘loaded’ or ‘ambiguous’. This article reviews empirical studies of welfare chauvinism, from the 1990s to the present day, drawing primarily from party politics and attitudes research. We identify differences in
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Unequal but balanced: Highly educated mothers’ perceptions of work–life balance during the COVID-19 lockdown in Finland and the Netherlands Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Mara A. Yerkes, Chantal Remery, Stéfanie André, Milla Salin, Mia Hakovirta, Minna van Gerven
One year after the European work–life balance directive, which recognises the need for work–family policy support, measures to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic began shaping parents’ work–life balance in significant ways. Academically, we are challenged to explore whether existing theoretical frameworks hold in this new environment with combined old and new policy frameworks. We are also challenged
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What’s not to like? Benefit design, funding structure and support for universal basic income Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Leire Rincón, Tim Vlandas, Heikki Hiilamo
After decades of debates on the economic and philosophical merits and shortcomings of a universal basic income (UBI), more recent literature has started to investigate the politics of a UBI. While several studies shed new light on the individual characteristics associated with higher or lower support for a UBI, we still do not know what features of a UBI itself are attractive or not to people, nor
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(De)legitimization of single mothers’ welfare rights: United States, Britain and Israel Journal of European Social Policy (IF 2.536) Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Anat Herbst-Debby
This article contributes to the theoretical discussion of the historical legitimacy of single mothers by examining the construction of relationships between single motherhood and welfare policy. Specifically, the study analyses the changing discourse regarding single mothers, and the social policy designed for them, in the US, UK and Israel from the 1970s to the 2000s. These three countries are similar