PSA Social Policy and Politics

The PSA Social Policy and Politics Specialist Group promotes the study of social policy with reference to political science debates and methods. The group focus

[Jack Newman (On Bluesky: jacknewman.bsky.social) @jacknewmanHE]

@Jo_Abbas and @siri_hp are giving the last paper in today's @PSA_SPP event. The paper looks at the relation between political partisanship and in-work benefits.

[Jack Newman (On Bluesky: jacknewman.bsky.social) @jacknewmanHE]

Very much looking forward to this event on politics and social policy. It starts in 20 minutes. Three great looking papers. Free to attend. Zoom link below. @PSA_SPP @PolStudiesAssoc @SocialPolicyUK

[Jack Newman (On Bluesky: jacknewman.bsky.social) @jacknewmanHE]

@HyojinJSeo is next up at the @PSA_SPP event. A really interesting analysis of the role of family policy in explaining women's over-representation in 'outsider jobs'.

[Jack Newman (On Bluesky: jacknewman.bsky.social) @jacknewmanHE]

@LukasLehner_ presenting his work on job retention strategies in Europe.

A fascinating start to today's @PSA_SPP PGR/ECR event.

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

You are all warmly invited to the Political Studies Association’s (PSA) Social Policy & Politics specialist group's ECR Webinar on the Intersections of Social Policy and the Labour Market on Tuesday 29th June 1600-1800 (UK time). Zoom link here: https://t.co/PKyW2FBmYb

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Great to see so many attend our launch event, and thanks to Colin, Peter, and Silja for their insights. Please join the Social Policy and Politics specialist group - lots more to come over the coming

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Social policy is a very data-rich discipline.

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Brexit as symbolic of the new cultural and political divide that has been growing over last thirty years, reflecting false dichotomy between class and identity politics.

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

What will be the next crisis after Covid? And how will this affect social policy, and social policy preferences?

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Issues of government and policy failure being evidenced internationally in response to Covid needs to be the subject of research.

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Need to find better ways to integrate theory and empirics to understand this profound change.

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Implications of political realignment in many western countries has largely been ignored in social policy.

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

New empirical methods lead to more valid designs, better empirical and theoretical insights, but need more evidence synthesis to understand what all of this tells us overall.

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Now raising the concept of expressive rationality as a non-instrumental model of human goal-oriented behaviour

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Some interesting discussion about rational choice theory, in its narrow version at least.

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Question: is there a lack of theoretical development and over focus on empirical research in social policy compared to other disciplines

[Sonia Bussu also on @[email protected] @Dr_SBussu]

The inaugural meeting of the @PSA_SPP group has just started - now discussing the importance of multidisciplinary approaches to social policy and politics @prossertj Colin Crouch, @SiljaHausermann and @PeterT_G https://t.co/h70yzafaNE @PSAdemocracy @PolStudiesAssoc

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Socio-economic development of societies and rapid change requires us to be more interdisciplinary in our theoretical and empirical research.

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Colin Crouch talks about differences in understanding and breadth of social policy between different parts of the world, and need to integrate study of labour policy and social policy.

[PSA Social Policy and Politics @PSA_SPP]

Interdisciplinary but needs to engage more with political science and economics.