Welfare states have made well-being one of the main focuses of public policies. Social policies entail, however, complicated, and sometimes almost insurmountable, issues of prioritization, measurement, problem evaluation or strategic and technical decision making concerning aim-setting or finding the most adequate means to ends. Given the pressures to effectiveness it is no wonder that the last several decades have witnessed the imposition of research-based social policies as standard as well as the development of policy-oriented research methodologies. Legitimate social policies are, in this context, more and more dependent on the accurate use of diagnostic methods, of sophisticated program evaluation approaches, of benchmarking and so on. Inspired by this acute interest, our journal aims to host primarily articles based on policy research and methodological approaches of policy topics. Our journal is open to sociologically informed contributions from anthropologists, psychologists, statisticians, economists, historians and political scientists. General theoretical papers are also welcomed if do not deviate from the interests stated above. The editors also welcome reviews of books that are relevant to the topics covered in the journal. |
Volume 8, Issue 1 July 2017
Carme Montserrat, Ferran Casas
The impact of gender violence on children: the perspective of children, young people, mothers, fathers and professionals
Lixia Qin
We Have Voices, Too: A Literature Review of Chinese Children’s Participation Rights
Timothy P. Hagen
Creating Global Cities of Refuge: Moonshot Innovation for Refugee Well-Being
Victor O. Alonge, Liam Delaney, Mary B. Codd
A Policy Delphi Survey towards Evidence Based Resource Allocation for Public Healthcare in the Republic of Ireland
Yusa Djuyandi
Social Communications of Regional Command Unit of Indonesian National Army (TNI AD) to Strengthens the Regional Resilience in Pematangsiantar
Veediasha Bekaroo, Smita Rampat, Naushad Mamode Khan
Pornography Use: Its Impact On Heterosexual Men’s Lives & Romantic Relationship
Ali Maksum, Surwandono
Suffer to Survive: The Indonesian Illegal Workers Experiences in Malaysia and Japan
Gabriella Pusztai, Karolina Eszter Kovács, Klára Kovács, Beáta Erika Nagy
The effect of campus environment on students’ health behaviour in four Central European countries
Srinath Ramamurthy, Sendilvelan Subramanian
Alcohol Use, Abuse and its Psychosocial and Economic Impact in India | ISSN (electronic) 2068-9861 |
