Social Policy in Changing European Societies

Edited by Kenneth Nelson, Professor of Social Policy, University of Oxford, UK and Rense Nieuwenhuis, Associate Professor of Sociology, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, Sweden and Mara A. Yerkes, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

‘As societies change, so must their social policies, and so also must the research that informs them. Social Policy in Changing European Societies: Research Agendas for the 21st Century resets the research agenda after two tumultuous decades. The perspective is comparative and multi-disciplinary, with contributors assessing current thinking about policy areas, theoretical perspectives, research methodologies, and urgent policy challenges including social care, climate change, digitalisation and international migration.’

• Contents:Preface xvi1 Social policy research in changing European societies 1Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, and Mara A. YerkesPART I KEY THEMES IN SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH2 Care and the analysis of welfare states 20Mary Daly and Margarita León3 Family policy research in Europe 34Wim Van Lancker and Hannah Zagel4 Comparative research on health and health care 50Claus Wendt5 Long-term developments in housing policy and research 66Caroline Dewilde and Marietta Haffner6 Studying the politics of pension reforms and their socialconsequences 85Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Katja Möhring7 Poverty, social policy and the welfare state: a research agenda 101Bea Cantillon8 Research on active social policy 120Giuliano BonoliPART II CROSS-CUTTING RESEARCH THEMES9 Researching social Europe on the move 136Caroline De la Porte and Ilaria Madama10 The evolution of social policy research in Central andEastern Europe 154Jolanta Aidukaite and Jekaterina Navicke11 Twenty years of social policy research on gender 171Trudie Knijn12 European labour markets and social policy: recent researchand future directions 187Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg13 Recent advances in understanding welfare attitudes in Europe 202Wim van Oorschot, Tijs Laenen, Femke Roosma, and Bart Meuleman14 Methodologies for comparative social policy analysis 218Emanuele Ferragina and Christopher DeemingPART III SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH CHALLENGES15 Social policy research and climate change 236Bjørn Hvinden and Mi Ah Schoyen16 Studying social policy in the digital age 251Minna van Gerven17 Migrants and social policy: shifting research agendas 265Karen N. Breidahl, Troels Fage Hedegaard, and Verena Seibel18 Social policy research in times of crisis 279Bent Greve and Thomas Paster19 Where to from here? Social policy research in futureEuropean societies 294Mara A. Yerkes, Kenneth Nelson and Rense NieuwenhuisIndex 303