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The case of a needle exchange policy debate in Fresno, California
Needle exchange is one of the most effective public health interventions to prevent the transmission of infectious disease by injecting drug users. Despite the preponderance of scientific evidence, US federal funding for needle exchange programmes has been banned since 1988. This prohibition has resulted in the lack of a centralised policy on needle exchange and has given birth to a patch…
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- Volume 36, Issue 2, May 2016; pp. 289–306
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Undermining housing affordability for New York’s low-income households: The…
While public programmes, rent controls and subsidy schemes have not resolved New York’s historic and long-standing housing crisis, they have been important in dampening the housing problems of low-income New Yorkers. Along with an encroaching neo-liberal hegemony, however, since the 1990s redistributive policies have come under growing pressure. This article focuses on the neo-liberal restr…
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- Volume 36, Issue 2, May 2016; pp. 265–288
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Putting victims first? A critique of Coalition anti-social behaviour policy
Anti-social behaviour (ASB) policy was not pursued by the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition government with the same vigour as their New Labour predecessors. Where developments did take place a clear shift in emphasis was apparent, with the needs of ASB victims elevated to the forefront of policy. This article critically appraises two major developments that showcase the Coalition…
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- Volume 36, Issue 2, May 2016; pp. 246–264
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Should irregular migrants have the right to healthcare? Lessons learnt from t…
This article critically evaluates the Royal Decree-Law 16/2012, which regulates migrants’ access to public healthcare services in Spain. In particular, it examines the political rationale behind the restriction of migrants’ access to primary and specialised healthcare services. We depart from the right to health as it is defined in the Spanish and international legislations to deconstru…
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- Volume 36, Issue 2, May 2016; pp. 225–245
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Defamilisation and familisation measures: Can they reduce the adverse effects…
This article explores the impact of defamilisation and familisation measures for women with caring responsibilities and their implications for access to pensions in later life in Hong Kong and the UK in the context of pro-market pension reforms. The first part of the article discusses pro- market pension reforms and their effects on women, the second discusses the potential role of defamil…
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- Volume 36, Issue 2, May 2016; pp. 205–224
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Designing electronic information systems for the future: Social workers and t…
There is a well-established critique of current forms of electronic information systems (IS) in social work organisations and attention is now turning to their redesign for the future. In this article we go beyond critiques that have established how this occurred to explore one of the reasons why current forms of IS have been observed to undermine frontline practice. In the same way that te…
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- Volume 36, Issue 2, May 2016; pp. 187–204
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Beyond individualisation: The German ‘activation toolbox’
This article discusses recent debates on ‘activating’ labour market policies in light of German reforms since 2003. Beckian and Giddensian theories of modernity, political economy, and the governmentality school all argue within a common paradigm of individualisation, assuming the ‘responsibilised’ and isolated individual to be the focal point of activation policies. This paradigm is qu…
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- Volume 36, Issue 2, May 2016; pp. 167–186
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Low road or high road? The post-crisis trajectory of Irish activation
Comparatively slow in adopting any clear activation strategy, post-crisis Ireland crossed the Rubicon and rapidly took steps to implement a work-first labour activation strategy. The article maps and examines the interaction of three variables – ideational influences, political interests and institutional processes – to assess the nature of post-crisis Irish activation policy. Troika im…
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- Volume 36, Issue 3, August 2016; pp. 432–452
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Neoliberal paternalism and paradoxical subjects: Confusion and contradictio…
The twin thrusts of neoliberal paternalism have in recent decades become fused elements of diverse reform agendas across the advanced economies, yet neoliberalism and paternalism present radically divergent and even contradictory views of the subject across the four key spaces of ontology, teleology, deontology and ascetics. These internal fractures in the conceptual and resulting polic…
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- Volume 36, Issue 3, August 2016; pp. 412–431
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Bordering practices in the UK welfare system
This article considers how chauvinistic welfare policies operate as a bordering practice. Taking the UK as an example, it examines a process in which welfare provisions have increasingly been withdrawn from a group of people designated as undeserving. It points out a close link between chauvinism based on ethnicity and that based on class. This relation is explored in detail for the cas…
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- Volume 36, Issue 3, August 2016; pp. 391–411
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Populist radical right protectors of the folkhem: Welfare chauvinism in Sweden
The article scrutinises a version of welfare chauvinism taking shape in Sweden, by concentrating on the concept of folkhem (the [Swedish] people’s home), and examines how it was expressed in the 2010–2014 parliamentary activity of the Sweden Democrats. It offers an analysis of how the welfare chauvinism project is first contextualised in the party documents, and subsequently articulated…
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- Volume 36, Issue 3, August 2016; pp. 371–390
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From welfare nationalism to welfare chauvinism: Economic rhetoric, the welf…
The article analyses the role and effects of economic cost and welfare state arguments in Finnish immigration politics and policies. It argues for a need to distinguish between welfare nationalist, welfare chauvinist and welfare exclusionist discourses. Through an examination of the immigration programmes of the political parties and parliamentary debates and policy documents mapping the ch…
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- Volume 36, Issue 3, August 2016; pp. 352–370
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Deservingness in the Danish context: Welfare chauvinism in times of crisis
This article examines categories of deservingness in social policy. It argues that immigrant groups are positioned differently according to their status and perceived ‘value’ for society. On the one hand, most states need several types of migrant labour; on the other hand, they wish to limit other types of migrants. The balance between humanitarian obligations and this urge to control has…
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- Volume 36, Issue 3, August 2016; pp. 330–351
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The politics and policies of welfare chauvinism under the economic crisis
The ongoing economic crisis that emerged in the wake of the global recession in 2008, and was followed by the more recent crisis of the Eurozone, has introduced new themes and remoulded old ways of approaching the welfare state, immigration, national belonging and racism in Northern Europe. This article identifies two main ways of understanding welfare chauvinism: 1) as a broad concept …
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- Volume 36, Issue 3, August 2016; pp. 321–329
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Simulating policy diffusion through learning: Reducing the risk of false posi…
This article uses agent-based computer simulation to investigate the dynamics of policy diffusion through learning. It compares these dynamics across state systems in which policy-makers possess different capabilities to learn about policy effectiveness: independent decision-makers focusing on own experiences vs. interdependent social learners relying heavily on experiences of others. The…
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- Volume 28, Issue 3, July 2016; pp. 497–519
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Political autonomy and independence: Theory and experimental evidence
We use a game-theoretical model and results from laboratory experiments to study the process by which subordinated regions of a country can obtain a more favorable political status. In our theoretical model a dominant and a dominated region first interact through a political process. This process involves two referenda, one at the level of the country as a whole and one at the level of …
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- Volume 28, Issue 3, July 2016; pp. 461–496
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Time constraints and the opportunity costs of oversight
In a principal–agent relationship, how should principals budget time for oversight when oversight activity is not instantaneous? We develop a formal model of resource allocation by a principal monitoring multiple agents, where the principal faces a dynamic budgeting problem. Our model reveals a tension between the value of holding resources in reserve to maintain the threat of an audit …
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- Volume 28, Issue 3, July 2016; pp. 431–460
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Strategic party heterogeneity
Political parties field heterogeneous candidates and send a variety of messages about their policy positions. Yet most voting models maintain that office-seeking parties should enforce intraparty homogeneity and cultivate clear party reputations. This article reconciles theory with reality by identifying a strategic rationale for parties to pursue heterogeneity. I develop a model in which…
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- Volume 28, Issue 3, July 2016; pp. 408–430
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Heresthetics and choice from tournaments
Moser et al. provide a formalization of heresthetics, the “art of political strategy”, in collective choice settings. In doing so they introduce the heresthetically stable set as the set of outcomes least susceptible to manipulation of issue dimension. In this note we correct a small error in the original paper, and close several open questions asked there in. We examine the heresthetical…
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- Volume 28, Issue 3, July 2016; pp. 385–407
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Scope and precedent: judicial rule-making under uncertainty
I develop a formal model of Supreme Court opinion-writing in an environment of uncertainty. In particular, the model captures how the Supreme Court will optimally design the specificity of its legal rules. The model focuses on the tradeoff between more precise rules which are controlling in a smaller subset of cases against less precise rules, which have wider applicability but yield le…
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- Volume 28, Issue 3, July 2016; pp. 353–384
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