Coronaviruses have emerged as a potential disruptive force in policymaking. Using a
comparative case study method, we examine two social policy responses in Jakarta …

This article provides an overview of the scholarship on healthcare reform in democratic
middle-income countries through comparative cases from Indonesia and Thailand. This …

Income support programs (ISPs) are important social policy measures to reduce the risk of
poverty among older adults. Over the years, developing countries including South Asian …

Abstract Kausale Mechanismen und Process Tracing stehen im Zentrum der
Methodendiskussion in der Politikwissenschaft. Die beiden Begriffe werden jedoch häufig …

Since late 2021, the US has experienced the highest cumulative rate of deaths from Covid-
19-related causes of any developed country in the world. Why this is the case invites serious …

Established theories of social policy development, such as industrialisation and power
resources, have been extensively used to explain the expansion of social policy …

This article draws on an institutional approach to compare social policy responses and
changes between the Asian Financial Crisis and the current Covid-19 Pandemic crisis in …

The aim of this Regional Issue is to generate new findings on social policy dynamics in the
Global South and on the transnational factors that shape them. It suggests that the concept …

Since the turn of the century, social pension programmes have evolved as a new instrument
for old-age provision in many Eastern, South-Eastern, and Southern Asian countries (Asher …

Small and medium-sized enterprises are extremely important to the economy. However,
businesses in this sector and their employees need help to obtain social security. Hungary …