Cambridge Core BlogCounting the Cost of European Union Regulation, You Couldn’t Make It Up
The role of regulation in saving lives, enhancing public health and welfare, and protecting the environment rarely features in policy debates in the UK.…
Social Studies
Brexit means higher immigration and more social spending
As many commentators have pointed out, the UK welfare state faces long-term structural problems in two main areas. Globalisation and technological changes demand that government directs attention to national competitiveness, and population ageing requires more spending on pensions, health and social care.…
Brexit and Race Equality Policies
With Brexit negotiations underway, a key question is whether withdrawal from the EU will affect equality policies. The Fawcett Society has recently warned that Government ‘Great Repeal Bill’ will present ‘a real threat to our equality laws’ in so far as it risks ‘weakening of protections’.…
Dealing with rejection: Advice from an editor
It happens to all academic researchers, all of the time. We have to deal with rejection – our papers get rejected for publication by journals.…
Finding Feminisms – a special issue from CJPS / RCSP
In this post, the guest Editors of the latest 50th anniversary issue of the Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Fiona MacDonald, Tracey Raney, Cheryl N.…
Why the UK Needs a Social Policy on Ageing
This article just published in JSP is a direct challenge to official and mainstream social policy orthodoxy on the issue of ageing which focuses on old age, not ageing, and assumes that later life is a natural period of decline. It also provides an antidote for the poisonous tendency of politicians, seen most glaringly in the recent General Election, to regard rising social care costs as the inevitable result of population ageing. Rather than asking if the projected demand for social care is inevitable and, if not, what can be done about it, the common response across the political spectrum is to concentrate only on supply side funding.…
The Treatment of Informal Care-Related Risks as Social Risks: An Analysis of the English Care Policy System
Caring can significantly affect the wellbeing and quality of life of informal carers and the people they support. It is essential, therefore, that care relationships are adequately supported.…
Why are private actors able to co-govern prostitution policy and assisted dying in Germany?
Prostitution and assisted dying are highly contentious topics in German politics and many more countries around the world. Policy-makers commonly disagree on the “right way” of solving related policy problems.…
Social Citizenship and Refugee Rights – Divergence between Westminster and Holyrood?
Introduction A longer articulation of Holyrood and Westminster’s views of social citizenship and refugee rights has been published in Mulvey’s latest article in the Journal of Social Policy.…
Who wants to put pressure on the unemployed?
Welfare states support vulnerable citizens by means of different types of social policy. Examples include unemployment and pension benefits, and social assistance schemes.…
Q&A on the use of Google Consumer Surveys for social science research, with Lie Philip Santoso, Robert Stein, and Randy Stevenson
There’s a great deal of discussion these days about survey and polling methodology. A series of close and surprising elections, worldwide, have led many to wonder about the state of polling and survey methodology — Brexit, the Colombian peace referendum, and the 2016 U.S.…
Constructed Female Bodies
Female sexual and sexualized bodies are constructed in multiple ways. One construction posits that females are autonomous and self-determining, and advocates for unimpeded choice regarding sexual expression, bodies, and reproduction.