Policies aimed at upskilling, motivating and/or disciplining the unemployed have remained a
cornerstone of most OECD countries' employment policies since the 1990s. Central to these …

Welfare conditionality is both ambitious and ambiguous for the frontline workers who put
policy into practice. Since January 2017, the Norwegian frontline service should require …

Across the globe, welfare conditionality and sanctioning increasingly permeate social
welfare programs. Paternalism is one of the key normative rationales invoked when both …

The debate on behavioural conditionality is characterised by abundant controversies.
Frontline managers have a particularly important role in implementing these policies …

Welfare conditionality, particularly stringent benefit sanctions, has become increasingly
prevalent in Western welfare states in recent decades. Although mandatory activation has …

This paper examines paternalism as a justification for welfare reforms making benefits
conditional on participation in activation programs. We clarify different types of what we …

Fra januar 2017 er alle norske sosialhjelpsmottakere under 30 år forpliktet til å delta i
arbeidsrelatert aktivitet–det vil si at de har aktivitetsplikt. Resiprositet er en politisk …

Norway has a strong welfare state that emphasises a combination of enabling activation
policies and behavioural conditionality (BC) in a broad range of benefits, including the main …

Rapid economic growth is often a disruptive social process threatening the social relations
and ideologies of incumbent regimes. Yet far from acting defensively, the Chinese …

How do modern states legitimize and frame their redistributive social policies in promoting
policy changes to the public? This article studies pension reform in China, using quantitative …