50th Anniversary Virtual Issue

Social Policy & Administration Top Cited Papers with Commentary and Author Review

Investing in the Citizen-workers of the Future: Transformations in Citizenship and the State under New Labour
Ruth Lister

Review by Ruth Lister here.
Commentary by Mary Daly here.

Social Exclusion in Britian 1991-1995
Tania Burchardt, Julian Le Grand and David Piachaud

Review by Tania Burchardt, Julian Le Grand and David Piachaud here.
Commentary by Heejung Chung here.

Ideas and Social Policy: An Institutionalist Perspective
Daniel Béland

Review by Daniel Béland here.
Commentary by Joan Costa-Font here.

Which Champions, Which People? Public and User Involvement in Health Care as a Technology of Legitimation
Stephen Harrison and Maggie Mort

Review by Stephen Harrison and Maggie Mort here.
Commentary by Martin Powell here.

Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda: Progresa/Oportunidades, Mexico's Conditional Transfer Programme
Maxine Molyneux

Review by Maxine Molyneux here.
Commentary by Dan Finn here.

The Choice Revolution: Privatization of Swedish Welfare Services in the 1990s
Paula Blomqvist

Read the Review by Paula Blomqvist here.
Commentary by Bent Greve here.

The Changing Governance of Welfare: Recent Trends in its Primary Functions, Scale, and Modes of Coordination
Bob Jessop

Commentary by Ian Greener here.

The Politics of Welfare State Retrenchment: A Literature Review
Peter Starke

Review by Peter Starke here.

The Welfare Modelling Business
Peter Abrahamson

Review by Peter Abrahamson here.
Commentary by Martin Powell here.

Researching Quality of Life in Early Old Age: The Importance of the Sociological Dimension
Paul Higgs, Martin Hyde, Richard Wiggins and David Blane

Review by Paul Higgs, Martin Hyde, Richard Wiggins and David Blane here.
Commentary by Kirstein Rummery here.