New policies, new words — the service concept in Scandinavian social policy

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Lennart Nygren ◽  
Margit Andersson ◽  
Guđný Eydal ◽  
Sten-Erik Hammarqvist ◽  
Pirkko-Liisa Rauhala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Service Concept ◽  
New Words ◽  
New Policies

scholarly journals An Institutional Embeddedness of Welfare Opinions? The Link between Public Opinion and Social Policy in the Netherlands (1970–2004)

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUDITH RAVEN ◽  
PETER ACHTERBERG ◽  
ROMKE VAN DER VEEN ◽  
MARA YERKES
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Institutional Embeddedness ◽  
Major Shortcoming ◽  
Welfare Attitudes ◽  
New Policies

AbstractA major shortcoming in the existing literature on welfare state legitimacy is that it cannot explain when social policy designs follow public preferences and when public opinion follows existing policy designs and why. Scholars examining the influence of public opinion on welfare policies, as well as scholars investigating institutional influences on individual welfare attitudes, find empirical evidence to support both relationships. While a relationship in both directions is plausible, scholars have yet to thoroughly investigate the mutual relationship between these two. Consequently, we still do not know under which circumstances welfare institutions invoke public approval of welfare policies and under which circumstances public opinion drives welfare policy. Taking a quantitative approach to public opinion and welfare state policies in the Netherlands, this paper addresses this issue in an attempt to increase our understanding of welfare state legitimacy. The results show that individual opinions influence relatively new policies, policies which are not yet fully established and where policy designs are still evolving and developing. Social policy, on the other hand, is found to influence individual opinions on established and highly institutionalised policies, but does not influence individual opinions in relatively new areas of social policy.

When New Policies Fail to Create a New Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-67
Author(s):  
Leah Cardamore Stokes
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
National Level ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
New Model ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
New Policies

Chapter 2 provides the book’s theory and core argument. The chapter reviews models of policy change that emerged from debates over social policy in advanced democracies at the national level. It defines the book’s key concepts, including interest groups, policy expansion, and retrenchment. It then develops a new model of policy change focused on the fog of enactment and organized combat, outlining both direct and indirect pathways that advocate and opponent interest groups exploit to influence policy post-implementation. Drawing on original survey data from US state legislators and their staff, it provides additional evidence for the book’s theory, supplementing the historical institutionalist case studies in the rest of the book.

Innovation in Social Policy – the Case of the Therapeutic Community

1976 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. P. Manning
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Therapeutic Community ◽  
Independent Innovation ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
New Policies ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTStudents of social policy have studied in some depth the fate of new ideas when they came close to inclusion in new policies, and especially new legislation. Less attention has been paid to the process whereby new ideas are generated, and the impact of advocacy on the future of simultaneous but independent innovation. Here, the therapeutic community, developed during the last war in response to largely neurotic difficulties in military personnel, is examined as a case study of innovation, and of the fate of innovation as a result of official support, and enthusiastic proselytization by committed practitioners.

scholarly journals What Curbs Social Investment? The Effect of Foreign Electoral Outcomes on Childcare Expenditure Levels

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
SIMONE TONELLI
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Political Learning ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Electoral Outcomes ◽  
Electoral Defeat ◽  
New Policies

Abstract This study aims to deepen our understanding of social investment expansion proposing a political learning mechanism to link existing institutional and political explanations. When resources are limited, increased spending in social investment often comes at the expense of politically costly retrenchment of established social insurance policies. Previous studies suggest that this trade-off results in existing entitlements crowding out new policies, and that party ideology plays less of a role in determining social policy expansion. I argue that this is because parties face an electoral dilemma, as individual preferences for social investment and social insurance have been shown to differ between groups that partly overlap in their voting behaviour. Applying a policy diffusion framework to the analysis of childcare expenditure, this study proposes that policymakers learn from the political consequences of past decisions made by their foreign counterparts and update their policy choice accordingly. The econometric analysis of OECD data on childcare expenditure shows that governments tend to make spending decisions that follow those of ideologically similar cabinets abroad and that left-wing governments with a divided electorate tend to reduce childcare expenditure if a previous expansionary decision of a foreign incumbent is followed by an electoral defeat. The findings have implications for the study of the politics of social policy development.

Prologue to the Forum: Vocabulary Across the School Grades

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne M. Adlof
Keyword(s):  
Word Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Instruction ◽  
Elementary Grades ◽  
Reading Disorders ◽  
Vocabulary Intervention ◽  
New Words ◽  
School Grades ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Ability Levels ◽  
Instructional Settings

Purpose This prologue introduces the LSHSS Forum: Vocabulary Across the School Grades. The goals of the forum are to provide an overview of the importance of vocabulary to literacy and academic achievement, to review evidence regarding best practices for vocabulary instruction, and to highlight recent research related to word learning with students across different grade levels. Method The prologue provides a foundational overview of vocabulary's role in literacy and introduces the topics of the other ten articles in the forum. These include clinical focus articles, research reviews, and word-learning and vocabulary intervention studies involving students in elementary grades through college. Conclusion Children with language and reading disorders experience specific challenges learning new words, but all students can benefit from high-quality vocabulary instruction. The articles in this issue highlight the characteristics of evidence-based vocabulary interventions for children of different ages, ability levels, and language backgrounds and provide numerous examples of intervention activities that can be modified for use in individual, small-group, or large-group instructional settings.

Australian Social Policy and the Human Services

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Carson ◽  
Lorraine Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Human Services

Joint Approaches to Social Policy

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Challis ◽  
Susan Fuller ◽  
Melanie Henwood ◽  
Rudolf Klein ◽  
William Plowden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy

Climate Panel Adopts New Policies

2011 ◽  
pp. 052611130054
Author(s):  
Cheryl Hogue
Keyword(s):  
New Policies
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