Animal Welfare and Resistance to Disease: Interaction of Affective States and the Immune System by Sandra Düpjan, Marian Stamp Dawkins

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The “Pull Factor” Problematization in the Emergence of Everyday Bordering in the UK Welfare State by Mike Slaven

“…To what extent is this visible in the state-led emergence of (everyday) borders around welfare in the United Kingdom, often cited as a key national case? …”
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Towards the marketization of early childhood education and care? Recent developments in Sweden and the United Kingdom by Ingela Naumann

“…This article examines developments in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) policy in Sweden and the United Kingdom, identifying trends towards marketization and universalization of ECEC that suggest a complex picture of competing policy logics and goals in the restructuring of welfare states. …”
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Editorial: Current state of fish behaviour & welfare research: Honoring Victoria Braithwaite by Becca Franks, Susan Healy, Felicity Huntingford

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The financial crisis and recent family policy reforms in Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom : Is there a connection? by Mikael Nygård, Verity Campbell-Barr, Nicole Krüger

“…In this article, we ask whether these crises have also triggered reforms in family policy, and we focus on three European welfare states – Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom – countries that are often considered members of different family policy regimes. …”
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Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Denmark and the United States by Stefan B. Andrade, Jens-Peter Thomsen

“…An overall finding in comparative mobility studies is that intergenerational mobility is greater in Scandinavia than in liberal welfare-state countries like the United States and United Kingdom. …”
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Mental health, welfare and state support: Findings from a novel data linkage by Sharon Stevelink, Matthew Hotopf, Ira Madan, Ava Phillips, Ray Leal, Nicola T Fear

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The net tax-benefit position and the role of self-interest in attitudes towards the welfare state by Solhee Han

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From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity: how welfare reform mimics the commodification of labour through greater state intervention by Koch, I, Reeves, A

“…We investigate the system of Universal Credit (UC) in the United Kingdom as an example of conversion. UC expands the reach of ‘active citizenship’ policies to a much larger population than ever before. …”

Beyond the Unitary State: Multi-Level Governance, Politics, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Animal Welfare by Paul Chaney, Ian Rees Jones, Nivedita Narayan

“…This paper synthesizes relevant social theory and draws on new empirical findings of civil society accounts of campaigning on animal welfare policies and law in the United Kingdom. It is presented as a corrective to arguably reductive, earlier unitary state-based analyses. …”
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Lives in welfare states: life courses, earnings accumulation, and relative living standards in five European countries by Fasang, AE, Andrade, SB, Buyukkececi, Z, Bedük, S, Karhula, A

“…Third, women are most likely to experience low-earning life courses in familizing welfare states (Germany, United Kingdom) compared to relative gender equality among low-earning life course types in welfare states that combine high defamilization and decommodification (Denmark, Finland).…”

Gendered aspects of activation policies: the limits of welfare to work by Conaghan, J

Canadian report card on health equity across the life-course: Analysis of time trends and cross-national comparisons with the United Kingdom by Alexandra Blair, Arjumand Siddiqi, John Frank

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Il welfare to work by Francesco Giubileo

“…The aim of this work is to present a series of considerations about welfare to work, a particular form of response to the crisis of the welfare state developed in the ’80s in the United Kingdom and considered by many as the way towards a modern “European social model” to oppose to the present Danish Flexicurity.Analyzing its historical path, it can be observed how governments, first Conservative and then Labour, have launched major reforms in public spending and deregulation of the labor market without sacrificing what Habermas called “loyalty of the masses”. …”
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Editorial: Wildlife Welfare by Charlotte Berg, Henrik Lerner, Andrew Butterworth, Chris Walzer, Chris Walzer

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Qualitative Behavioural Assessment as a welfare indicator for farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in response to a stressful challenge by Timothy Robert Wiese, Sonia Rey Planellas, Monica Betancor, Marie Haskell, Susan Jarvis, Andrew Davie, Francoise Wemelsfelder, James F. Turnbull

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Charting Singapore's social policy since WWII : abandoned welfarism only to usher in welfare again. by Tan, Xue Mei.

“…Singapore's aversion to being regarded as a welfare state from 1960s onwards till today was in stark contrast to the years after World War Two, when the state had actually emulated the Western welfare states such as the United Kingdom in providing for the poor and sick. …”
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Factors contributing to and preventing mothers of children 1-6 aged from participating in the labour market in Kazakhstan by Moldir Kabylova

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Inequalities in employment rates among older men and women in Canada, Denmark, Sweden and the UK by Ashley McAllister, Lee Bentley, Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Natasja Koitzsch Jensen, Lotta Nylen, Ingelise Andersen, Qing Liao, Theo Bodin, Cameron Mustard, Bo Burström

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Contemporary British Art and its Contested Publicness: The Case of the Artangel Trust Experimenting with Site in Britain Today by Charlotte Gould

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