scholarly journals Theory in Social Policy Research: Rationality and Its Discontents

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hoefer
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Research

The development of social policy research in Israel

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-469
Author(s):  
John Gal ◽  
Roni Holler
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Research

Rejoinder: Contradictions and Irony in Policy Research

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Morales ◽  
Steven Balkin ◽  
Joseph Persky
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Real World ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Negative Effects

We have been stimulated by this exchange on both personal and intellectual levels. Intellectual pursuits have been subdivided by scholars with various interests. However, specialization is not in itself an evil, except when it constrains fruitful analysis of empirical issues that have real-world implications for social policy and people's lives. Problems of social life and social policy typically speak to and provoke scholars of all kinds. Hence opportunities to investigate empirical interests from a variety of perspectives are opportunities forus all to learn the strengths and limitations of our tools. We wish this kind of discussion about the importance of the informal sector and marketplaces had occurred before the destruction of the Maxwell Street Market. This exchange might have further informed policy decisions and perhaps avoided some of the negative effects of dismantling the market. Nonetheless, we thank those who commented for their thoughtful responses. We agree with many but not all of their views, as the responses below suggest. Our methodology involved integrating ethnography and analytical economics; throughout, we have tried to strike a reasonable balance between analysis and participation.

The Research Relationship: Practice and Politics in Social Policy Research.

Man ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 407
Author(s):  
Angela Cheater ◽  
G. C. Wenger
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Research Relationship

scholarly journals Building Research Capacity and Organizational Empathy Among Students: Making Connections Beyond the Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Durksen ◽  
Shannon Struck ◽  
Alexandra Guemili ◽  
Soomin Han ◽  
Emily Brownell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Linked Administrative Data

IntroductionThe leveraging of multi-sector, whole-population, linked administrative data is advantageous for conducting research on complex real-world problems. However, such large and complex data repositories can sometimes appear impersonal and overwhelming. Establishing organizational empathy (OE) in thecontext of a multi-sector partnership between academic, government and community representatives can help us understand the data better for social policy research. Evidence stemming from this research can then inform policy decisions, ultimately increasing the potency of linked data analysis and creating more meaningful student experiences. Our objective is to examine the role of OE in the student research experience. Objectives and ApproachSPECTRUM (Social Policy Evaluation Collaborative Team Research at Universities in Manitoba) is a multi-disciplinary partnership working to provide evidence-based solutions to ‘wicked’ social issues by using linked data from multiple sectors. SPECTRUM provides fellowships to students to become partners in the collaboration. Students have participated in quarterly workshops, building relationships with community leaders, government decision-makers and academic researchers. Students are from various faculties, bringing their unique frameworks and research interests to the collective. Through OE, students observeand participate in SPECTRUM, relating its goals and outcomes to society and their own research. ResultsStudent inclusion in SPECTRUM enhances the partnership by providing a greater range of perspectives and facilitates the development of OE among SPECTRUM members. Students are using linked administrative data, while actively engaging in dialogue with stakeholders, thereby enriching their knowledge and understanding of research. Conclusion / ImplicationsData linkage involves more than just use of the repository; it requires establishing common ground since the data have different meaning to each partner. OE developed through SPECTRUM provides invaluable insight into and context for the data. Knowledge transfer among members of the partnership will enrich SPECTRUM’s research outcomes while building capacity among Students.

Ungleichheit, Sozialstaat und demokratische Repräsentation: Marktkorrigierende Politik durch den Medianwähler?

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Dallinger
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Median Voter ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Income Disparities ◽  
Government Responsiveness

AbstractPolitical economy of redistribution and comparative social policy research view the median voter as the political force, which demands marketregulating social policy in periods of increased income disparities and to which governments – to be re-elected – must respond. However, government responsiveness has been questioned, especially the responsiveness for political demands of low-income households. Are even the preferences of the median voter only selectively addressed through politics? If the median voter is actually influential, its redistributive preferences should explain the outcome of government action, e.g. size of redistribution. Is this true? Based on a pooled dataset with observations between 1980 and 2012 for 13 OECD-countries it is shown that the political position of the median voter alone has no impact. Rather mediating political factors like a proportional electoral system and left parties with wider welfare programs provide for broader representation and more redistribution.

Evidence from the ‘Frontline’? An Ethnographic Problematisation of Welfare-to-Work Administrator Opinions

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
John David Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Welfare To Work ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis

Researchers both supportive and critical of welfare schemes regularly explore the influence, legitimacy and effects of welfare administrator opinions. However, the ‘origins’ of those opinions are generally less well considered. This article explores and problematises the use of welfare-to-work administrator testimony in social science and social policy research. Rejecting both Foucauldian models of ‘elite conceptual download’, and approaches that take administrator views at face value, it argues that the material circumstances of day-to-day working may constitute the most significant influence on administrator views. This both supports a more materialist, less idealist and/or positivistic approach, and also suggests the pressing need for more contextualised, ethnographic analysis of data in welfare-to-work debates.

Recalibrating Policies for Localism in Australia's Commercially Networked Tv Industry

2003 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Tim Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Contextual Data ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Regional Australia ◽  
News Programs ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This article considers the emergence of policies for localism within the Australian commercially networked TV industry. By historically reflecting on the construction of equalisation policies of the late 1980s, their trajectory is traced through to the ABA's regional TV news inquiry in 2001–2002. Against a background of late twentieth century international trends to deregulation, the reregulation of Australian regional TV is linked with a discussion of possible alternative rules for content distribution. The origins of localism in US commercial TV and comparable recent US developments in TV news are reviewed. It is questioned whether the intended beneficiaries of the equalisation policy — under-served rural and regional TV audience — have in fact had their promise of increased television choices compromised, with the winding back of the key genre of local news programs in some areas. It is further argued that broader contextual data — for example, information arising from economic and social policy research in rural and regional Australia — could appropriately inform the development of localism policies for the longer term.

scholarly journals A Multiple Streams Approach to Understanding Social Policy in Ghana: The Case of Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Saaka Sulemana
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Multiple Streams Approach ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Entrepreneurial Role

This paper utilizes Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) to explain how Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty (LEAP) was created in Ghana. MSA explains that policies are made by governments under the conditions of ambiguity (Zahariadis, 2014). Therefore, the paper explores social policy in two different time periods, 1992 to 2000, and 2001 to 2008 and argues that, prior to 2001 social policy was relatively ineffective. However, this changed when the New Patriotic Party took office in 2001. By applying MSA, this paper makes a distinct theoretical contribution to social policy research in Ghana, and argues that the policy entrepreneurial role of Former President Kufuor undergirds the implementation of LEAP in 2008.

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