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Solidarity in Welfare States During and After the Global Pandemic: A Theoretical Investigation

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Welfare state policies are based on cultural ideals of solidarity; however, the extent of solidarity provided by welfare state institutions has varied substantially, both historically and across nations and policy fields. This article aims to answer the following questions: How did solidarity as an institutional norm in welfare states change ...
Birgit Pfau‐Effinger, Patricia Frericks   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Territorial context in the research on the EU cohesion. One-speed or multi-speed Europe? [PDF]

Every European Union enlargement has deepened economical divergence between member states and their regions. However, the economic aspect of this issue is only a part of a broad scope of reasons of its internal diversity, including also social, cultural ...
Mariusz Sokołowicz
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The Politics of Social Care in Japan: How Central–Local Interactions Shaped Child Allowances and Elderly Medical Care

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Japan's social care reforms of the early 1970s led to a generous elderly care system but only modest and narrowly targeted support for children. Although child allowances and free medical care for the elderly were introduced almost simultaneously, they followed sharply divergent paths.
Ryotaro Takahashi
wiley   +1 more source

The European Union in a Geo‐Economic World: Towards a New Inter‐Institutional Balance?

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 511-532, March 2026.
Abstract The EU's ‘geo‐economic turn’ has led to a blurring of the boundaries between EU trade and security policies. Against this background, this article examines whether a new institutional balance is emerging in the field of EU economic security policies, in particular, between the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament as the three ...
Thomas Conzelmann, Sophie Vanhoonacker
wiley   +1 more source

Functionaries: A Distributional Approach to Institutional Analysis

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper outlines a distributional approach to institutional analysis, reconceptualising institutions as distributions of knowledge and activity across people. We argue that institutionalisation and institutional change are best understood by focussing on actors with the requisite knowledge and motivation to keep institutional patterns going,
Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, Omar Lizardo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Composition Theory: A Pragmatist Specification of the Mesosocial

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article develops composition theory as a pragmatist specification of the mesosocial. Existing theories describe situated social life without adequately explaining the mechanisms that produce it. Recent pragmatist scholarship has established important foundations: Gross on mechanisms, Lizardo on habit, and Hallett on inhabited ...
David D. Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Connections Matter: Family Centers and German Social Policy

Social Work and Society, 2018
German social policy has promoted family centers for the past decade, and in that period they have spread considerably. At first glance, this development suggests that contemporary social policy in Germany is implementing new services to support families
Onno Husen, Philipp Sandermann
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Securing EU neighborhood - an ideational approach to EU-neighborhood relations [PDF]

, 2011
This paper analyses the interrelationship between internal and external security discourses in the field of European Union's neighbourhood policy. The European Union can be observed to actively use security concepts developed in the internal policy-field
Dib, Laura
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The Fatal Flaw: Unraveling Combinations of Barriers to Corporate Sustainability

Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 1667-1683, February 2026.
ABSTRACT The paper deepens understanding of barriers to corporate sustainability by examining internal and external barriers in the food and beverage sector. Drawing on institutional theory, the study highlights how macro‐level pressures interact with meso‐level organizational dynamics.
Patricia Milić, Mitja Hafner‐Fink, Tomaž Čater   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of trust and power in the institutional regulation of territorial business systems [PDF]

This paper discusses the role of trust and power in organizational relationships. In its theoretical part it draws on conceptual ideas of Systems Theory, Structuration Theory and New Institutionalism.
Bachmann, Reinhard
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