Social Policy & Administration

Edited by:
Martin Powell, Bent Greve

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 19/43 Planning & Development; 10/32 Social Issues
Impact Factor: 1.0

Social Policy & Administration is the longest established journal in its field. Whilst remaining faithful to its tradition in academic excellence, the journal also seeks to engender debate about topical and controversial issues. Typical numbers contain papers clustered around a theme. The journal is international in scope. Quality contributions are received from scholars world-wide and cover social policy issues not only in Europe but in the USA, Canada, Australia and Asia Pacific.

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Social Policy & Administration - Prize for Early Stage Career Researcher
Social Policy & Administration is pleased to offer a prize for the best paper published in the journal by an Early Stage Career Researcher. The prize will be £500, plus a year's free subscription to Social Policy & Administration. For further information on the Eligibility for the prize, the Procedure and the Award of the Prize, please click here.

Call for Papers: The times they are changing?
Special Issue of Social Policy & Administration, 2011
Welfare states in crisis has been a recurring theme in social policy analysis for a long time now. Yet social welfare systems have in most countries proved remarkably stable and in some countries social spending has still been growing. The recent economic crisis has raised the questions of how and what the consequences are for the modern welfare states, including for those individuals or groups who are particularly affected, and of changes in the economies given the expected demographic pressures on welfare states. But an even more fundamental question is whether the crisis is being used to change, restructure, recalibrate or even make outright cuts in public sector spending?

This special issue will analyse whether there have been the same changes during the oil crisis of the 1970s, the financial crisis in the 1990s and the current global financial crisis having an impact on welfare states, specifically if crisis implies similar or different types of responses, or whether economic crisis is just a normal part of the welfare states development and therefore no specific impact can be found. This includes whether this is the case, and if so how to identify the specific drivers for change. This further includes whether there is a unique ideological or conceptual nature to the changes, so that for example, crises are used perhaps solely as an excuse for desired change. Evaluations and assessments of the causes of change in light to economic and/or legitimacy crises will be in focus either as individual country or comparative studies.

Deadlines for abstracts is 1st February 2010. Deadline for full papers is 1st September 2010. For further information please contact Professor Bent Greve, Special and Regional Issues editor, University of Roskilde, bgr@ruc.dk.

Winner of the Prize for Early Stage Career Researcher Announced
Social Policy & Administration is pleased to announced the winner of the prize for the best published paper by an Early Stage Career Researcher. Christopher Deeming was awarded the prize with the article "Determining semi-normative poverty lines using social science data".
For further information on the Early Stage Career Researcher Prize, please click here.

Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy Book Series
This series is designed to stretch the boundaries of social policy debate by inviting a distinguished consultant editor, from a related discipline, to bring together an international range of contributors to comment on a theme of social policy concern. To view the latest books in the series, please click here.

Online Manuscript Submission
You can now submit your manuscript to Social Policy & Administration online via Manuscript CentralTM. To submit go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/spa.

All issues of Social Policy & Administration back to volume 1 are now available online!
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RECENT HIGHLIGHT ARTICLES IN THE REGULAR ISSUES

From Gift Relationships to Quasi-markets: An Odyssey along the Policy Paths of Altruism and Egoism
Robert Pinker

The State and its Welfare State: How do Welfare State Changes Affect the Make-up of the Nation State?
Heinz Rothgang, Herbert Obinger, Stephan Leibfried

Lone Parents and Informal Childcare: A Tax Credit Childcare Subsidy?
Christine Skinner, Naomi Finch

Left to Market and Family - Again? Ideas and the Development of the Rural Pension Policy in China
Shih-Jiunn Shi

Social Policy in a Cold Climate: Health and Social Welfare in Russia
Mike Titterton

Shifting the Pension Mix: Consequences for Dutch and Danish Women
Patricia Frericks, Robert Maier, Willibrord de Graaf

RECENT REGIONAL ISSUES:

• East and Northeast Mediterranea
• Australasia
• East and Central Europe
• China
• USA

RECENT BOOKS IN THE BROADENING PERSPECTIVES SERIES:

• Living in Dangerous Times: Fear, Insecurity, Risk and Social Policy, Edited by David Denney
• Reforming the Bismarckian Welfare Systems, Edited by Bruno Palier and Claude Martin
• Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global Countryside, Edited by George Giacinto Giarchi
• Migration, Immigration and Social Policy, Edited by Catherine Jones Finer
• Overstretched: European Families Up Against the Demands of Work and Care, Edited by Teppo Kröger & Jorma SIPILÄ
• Making a European Welfare State?: Convergences and Conflicts Over European Social Policy, Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby
• The Welfare of Food: Rights and Responsibilities in a Changing World, Edited by Elizabeth Dowler & Catherine Jones Finer
• Environmental Issues and Social Welfare, Edited by Michael Cahill and Tony Fitzpatrick
• The Business of Research: Issues of Politics and Practice, Edited by Catherine Jones Finer and Gillian Lewando Hundt
• New Risk, New Welfare: Signpost for Social Policy, Edited by Nick Manning and Ian Shaw
• Transnational Social Policy, Edited by Catherine Jones Finer