Here is a sneak peek from our forthcoming special issue on "social policy implementation in Southern Europe and Latin America" where Llorenç Soler-Buades and Francisco Ferraioli argue that rescaling of welfare can introduce additional burdens for claimants.

New paper in @jicsp.bsky.social on the implementation problems of the minimum income scheme in Spain: @emmaalcr.bsky.social and myself propose a typology of implementation problems in these programs and analyze the available evidence on the case of the Spanish IMV.
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The 25/26 SKAPE Seminar Series kicks off with:

Topic modelling UK science advisory committees during Covid-19

23 Oct, 1-2pm, VLR, Chrystal Macmillan Building / Online

More info and registration: edin.ac/46uJMGn

Honoured to receive the best paper award of @jicsp.bsky.social together with Sanni Välimäki, @jlammit.bsky.social and Johanna Närvi. Thank you🙏🏻

And thank you for an inspiring conference in York @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social !

@flux-consortium.bsky.social

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Congratulations to the winners of the @universitypress.cambridge.org best article price for @jicsp.bsky.social at the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social Conference at #York2025:

Sanni Välimäki
@jlammit.bsky.social
@merita.bsky.social
Johanna Närvi

See the paper here: tinyurl.com/d3u5ny4t

Are you presenting a paper at the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social Conference?

Does your paper take a comparative perspective or have an international dimension to its argument?

Then why not consider submitting it to @jicsp.bsky.social

@socialpolicyuk.bsky.social
@universitypress.cambridge.org

Very much looking forward to the start of the @easp-spa-2025.bsky.social EASP-SPA conference later today. 1 hour to go! #York2025

In a new MPIfG Discussion Paper, @fbulfone.bsky.social, @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social, and @aritassinari.bsky.social trace the growth trajectories of Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain from the financial crisis to the covid pandemic. ‬

🔗 pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces...

American moves to Europe, experiences labour policy (protection), cleans a dataset of thousands of reforms, can now explain where they come from: Parties campaigning on left-leaning economic policies are more likely to implement pro-worker policies, but only during non-crisis economic conditions.

🟦 The 2025 Pension Barometer is out! Trust in the Finnish pension system has declined. At the same time, most people still support the system’s core principles. Over half viewed the recent pension reform proposal positively. @sannatenhunen.bsky.social Read more 👇 www.etk.fi/en/topical-i...

New paper out with the @adkspanel.bsky.social team, in the @bjsociology.bsky.social. I was happy to lead this paper on track differences in civic engagement, using four-year panel data of the ADKS (DAPDV) project, from the start of the tracked system (roughly age 12-16) doi.org/10.1111/1468... >

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