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This blog is based on an article in Social Policy and Society by Alba Lanau and Andrea Matolcsi. Click here to access the article. The design of sex industry policy and service provision is often seen as informed by moral considerations as opposed to empirical evidence. Here we argue for local mapping as a tool… Continue reading Local Knowledge Mapping: How to Move Beyond Morality Politics When Designing Prostitution and Sex Industry Policy →

This blog is based on an article in Social Policy and Society by Max Koch. Click here to access the aricle. The literatures of ecological economics, degrowth, and sustainable welfare has demonstrated that an encompassing social-ecological transformation would need to be initiated very soon if we hope to re-embed Western production and consumption patterns within environmental limits.… Continue reading Degrowth and Social Policy: Towards a Sustainable Welfare State →

This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Evelyn Aboagye Addae and Stefan Kühner. Click here to access the article. The notion that the measurement of subjective well-being is key to social policy development has been increasingly acknowledged. Indicators that encapsulate people’s overall mental health and cognitive evaluations of… Continue reading Family Social Capital as a ‘Safety Net’ For Adolescents’ Well-Being: Lessons for Ghana’s Child and Family Welfare Policy →

This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Rajiv Prabhakar. Click here to access the article. Politicians are usually keener to talk about rises in spending rather than taxes. This is for a good reason that raising taxes can be a thankless task. Elected politicians risk being punished at… Continue reading What are the Barriers to Taxing Wealth? →

This blog is based on an article in the Journal of Social Policy by Matt Fisher. Click here to access the article. The ultimate purpose of social policy, and public policy at large, is surely to promote human welfare or wellbeing. An essential element of wellbeing is psychological wellbeing, understood in terms of coping with… Continue reading Moving Social Policy From Mental Illness to Public Wellbeing →