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This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Jeremiah Brown, Jack Noone and Fanny Salignac. Click here to access the article. Financial wellbeing has emerged as a key policy priority around the world, with a growing body of academic and practitioner work seeking to improve financial wellbeing outcomes. However,… Continue reading Systems Thinking for Better Social Policy →

This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Tuuli Hirvilammi, Liisa Häikö, Håkan Johansson, Max Koch and Johanna Perkiö. Click here to access the article. Temperatures across the world are breaking record levels, devastating floods are risking lives in India, the US, and China, and millions of hectares of… Continue reading Social Policy in the Eye of Climate Emergency →

Neoliberalism changed many things in Australia. Unions are weaker. Inequality is higher. But exactly what changed is often surprising. The state did not shrink. Social spending did not decrease, nor did it become less redistributive. Household wealth has increased rapidly, but largely due to changes in social policy rather than rising productivity.
The relationship between liberalisation and the welfare state is both more central and more complicated than we often imagine. In Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation I sought to move beyond a lament for declining egalitarianism, and to instead learn from the political strategies that have mitigated and even reduced inequality in hard times.
The book examines case studies from three forms of liberalisation – targeting benefits, marketizing services and financialising the life course. Through each I highlight different models of reform that are broadly consistent with liberalisation (means-testing benefits, facilitating private service providers or using asset-debt relations), yet have different political and distributional consequences.
The post Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation – Part I: Contesting Neoliberal Social Policy appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

This blog is based on an article in Social Policy and Society by Tauchid Komara Yuda and Rizqi Ashfina. Click here to access the article. The Indonesian healthcare system has significantly evolved throughout the years. After it was initiated in 2004 through National Social Security Law, the utilisation remained low, exacerbated by its underdeveloped and… Continue reading Is There More Than Meets the Eye? A Closer Look in the Interplay Between Factors in Social Policy Development →

"There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives." – Audre Lorde Intersectional approaches to policy analysis help us understand the glaring reality that lies ahead. An intersectional approach is one that considers the fault lines that connect race, gender and class. Applying that approach to policy analysis … Continued

A new report from Amnesty International acknowledges the dispossession and displacement of Palestinians from their homes as a crucial pillar of Israel's apartheid system. It inveighs that (opens in a new w"According to one estimate, Israel has expropriated over 10,000 shops, 25,000 buildings and almost 60% of the fertile land belonging to Palestinian refugees in … Continued

This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Ewen Speed and Aaron Reeves. Click here to access the article. In the UK, there is a clear imperative to facilitate greater participation in contemporary public policy making in part to address a purported democratic deficit, both locally and nationally. This… Continue reading Why is Lived Experience Absent from Social Security Policymaking? →

This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Liang Shang and Yanto Chandra. Click here to access the article. In our recent research, we explored the mechanisms of co-production enacted by work-integration social enterprises (SEs) within the disability sector. These organisations not only provide employment opportunities for disabled people… Continue reading Exploring Co-Production in Social Enterprises for People With Disabilities →

This blog is based on an article in Social Policy and Society by Erwin Gielens, Femke Roosma and Peter Achterberg. Click here to access the article. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a policy proposal that aims for radical reform of our social security system. The proposal itself is simple: provide every citizen with a subsistence-level… Continue reading Constructing Credibility: How Basic Income Changed Policy Debate in the Netherlands →

This blog is based on an article in Social Policy and Society by Colin Clark. Click here to access the article. Setting the scene My recent article in Social Policy & Society considers a very specific example of environmental injustice in Scotland: the 'space and place' of Gypsy/Traveller communities and their accommodation on local authority, private, and… Continue reading Social Abjection and The ‘Space and Place’ of Gypsy/Traveller Communities →

This blog is based on an article in Social Policy and Society by Zahid Mumtaz. Click here to access the article. A sizeable segment of the global population, particularly in Global South nations, lacks access to state-provided formal welfare. Consequently, they rely on informal support to meet their needs. This informal assistance however – whether… Continue reading Harmony and Dissonance: The Interplay of Formal and Informal Social Protection →

This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Åke Bergmark and Hugo Stranz. Click here to access the article. In recent years, the perception of Swedish welfare as generous and all-inclusive has become increasingly questioned by scholars. This also applies to its final tier, social assistance, which is a… Continue reading Welfare With a Crooked Halo: Analysing Swedish Social Assistance Over Three Decades →

This blog is based on an article in Social Policy and Society by Kateryna Krakhmalova. Click here to access the article. The Russian war against Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022. This was the date it become full-scale, full-fledged, and evident for the whole world for what it is. However, in reality (as,… Continue reading Challenging Security Limits on Social Rights for the Internally Displaced in Wartime: Ukraine’s Case →

This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Katharina Loboiko, Michael Steiner and Sabine Bohnet-Joschko. Click here to access the article. Eurostat projects a surge in Europe’s elderly population in the next 30 years, predicting an escalating need for long-term care. A closer look reveals that many European nations… Continue reading Rethinking Caregiver Support: Understanding the Burden of Informal Care within the German Social System →

In the run up to the Chancellor's spring statement today, much of the debate has focused what support will be made available to those on low income and those struggling most with the rising costs of living. Poverty campaigners have called to uprate benefits in line with inflation and to strengthen existing support. In times … Continued