Despite the centrality of shame and stigma within research on welfare in high-income
countries, these issues only exist within the periphery of rapidly expanding practice in and …

Employees of the public employment services (PES) are street-level bureaucrats who shape
activation policy on the ground. This paper examines how PES staff use enhanced …

The activation trend in social policy entails that caseworkers on the frontlines of the welfare
state are expected to decide 'reasonable'activation requirements for clients and when and …

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Drawing on the neo-republican theory of non-domination and a qualitative case study
conducted in three Dutch municipalities, this article explores the extent to which external …

This study proposes a novel and systematic theoretical framework to explain global welfare
state policy differences. The existing scholarship examined ample welfare state variations …

This chapter examines how the republican theory of non-domination, as developed by Pettit
(1999, 2012) and Lovett (2010, 2016) can be used for a normative analysis of welfare to …

ABSTRACT From the Poor Law, through to the present day, it is possible to track a persistent
impetus to disincentivise financial subsistence for people out-of-work. However, the …

This thesis explores how older men use metaphors to express what it is like to live through
extreme periods of long-term unemployment. These metaphors are viewed from a …

'En als je afhankelijk bent van een uitkering, je weet niet wat er gaat gebeuren. Je moet ook
nog eens op een hele vreemde plaats een soort van stage lopen, want als je dat niet doet …