This special issue commemorates the 50th anniversary of Social Policy & Administration.
Much has been written over the last two decades about the role of ideas in social policy …

Most quantitative, comparative welfare state research assumes that subnational welfare
regimes are irrelevant or identical to their national counterparts. Many qualitative case …

Program take-up is a necessary condition for program effectiveness. Yet, non-take-up is a
significant challenge for many social programs, including Québec's Supplement to the Work …

This review essay takes stock of the recent literature about the role of ideas in social policy,
with a particular focus on a key issue in social policy research: the changing interactions …

Whether as a subfield of political science or as a discipline in its own right, policy studies
have come a long way since Harold Lasswell's seminal work on the policy cycle (Howlett & …

For decades, policymakers in the US have leveraged accountability policy as a governing
tool to lift school performance and close the achievement gap. Accountability become so …

This article examines the state of the English-language peer-reviewed literature published
over the 2011–2021 period whose objective is to describe and explain processes of …

Ontario Works is a provincial income assistance programme of last resort, operating under a
workfare policy structure. Based on interviews with clients and staff (case managers …

In broad terms, in-work benefits comprise tax-benefit policies that supplement the earned
income of households undertaking paid work. There is a general consensus that in-work …

This article analyses and compares disability policies for working-age individuals in Canada
with a focus on the mode of policy provision and type of measure to determine the degree to …