International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 42 Issue 1/2

Guest editorial: Old and New Challenges for Welfare Regimes – A Global Perspective

Gibran Cruz-Martinez, Pamela Bernales-Baksai

This paper aims to present an introduction to the special issue titled “Old and New Challenges for Welfare Regimes: A Global Perspective.”

Pioneering anti-poverty policies in Brazil and Mexico: ambiguities and disagreements on conditional cash transfer programs

Carla Tomazini

Focusing on the conditional cash transfers (CCTs) first created and implemented in Brazil and Mexico, this article takes a new look at the factors facilitating the creation of…

State transformations and welfare models: the significance of the return of public institutions in Ecuador of the Citizen Revolution (2007–2017)

Gemma Ubasart-González, Analía Mara Minteguiaga

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between estate transformations produced during the governments of the Citizen Revolution (CR) in Ecuador (2007-2017) and…

Beyond multidimensional poverty: challenges of measurement and its link with social policy in Mexico

Oscar A. Martínez-Martínez, Brenda Coutiño, Araceli Ramírez-López

Comprehensive poverty measures are increasingly gaining importance since people's deprivations and needs cover aspects beyond income. For this reason, the goal of this article is…

The elusive promise of universal social protection: the case of the Greek general minimum income (GMI)

Noëlle M. Burgi, Eleni Kyramargiou

The need to alleviate poverty and achieve the United Nations (UN) 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Universal Social Protection (USP) mechanisms is a high priority…

Locating Central and Eastern European emerging welfare regimes: is the youth welfare citizenship typology useful?

Anna Broka, Anu Toots

The authors’ aim is to establish the variance of youth welfare citizenship regimes in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and to revisit the applicability of the regime approach to…

The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in five African countries

Katrin Gasior, Chrysa Leventi, Michael Noble, Gemma Wright, Helen Barnes

The paper aims to assess the effects of taxes and benefits on inequality and poverty in five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia.

India's tryst with Modi-fare 2014–19: towards a universalistic welfare regime

Keerty Nakray

This paper examines India’s tryst with welfare/dis-fare with a specific focus on Modi Sarkar's (2014–2019) dirigiste style reforms. In the welfare regime research, Esping-Andersen…

Determinants of health and education equality: evidence from post-Soviet states

Angelo Vito Panaro

This article examines the determinants of social equality in the education and healthcare sectors in the 15 post-Soviet states. Focussing on regime type and civil society…

Eldercare in Japan, transnational care labor, and emerging welfare regimes

Deborah J. Milly

This article analyzes recent Japanese efforts to recruit care labor from seven Asian countries to identify the relative contributions to migrants and their respective countries'…

The exclusion of migrants and refugees from welfare programs in Austria: the “legitimizing explanations” across different policy areas

Irene Landini

The present article deals with the topic of migrants’ exclusion from welfare benefits in European host countries from the angle of the research on the so-called “welfare…