Social Policy Review 37

Introduction - Stephan Koeppe, Andrea Parma, and Bozena Sojka





Part 1: Elections, Parties and Social Policy


1. Lacking ambition: insights from three poverty audits of UK election manifestos (2015, 2017 and 2024) - Lee Gregory, Gerardo J. Arriaga Garcia


2. Lost trust, lost hope: What low-income parents say about politics in the 2024 UK election - A call for participatory research - Uisce Jordan, Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Katie Pybus, Emily Mann


3. A paradigm shift backwards? Current trends and reforms in German pension and labour market policies - Florian Blank





Part 2: Comparative Perspectives on Social Policy


4. Bouncing back into gender? The persisting effect of parenthood on gender roles in Austrian families - Carmen Walenta-Bergmann


5. Gender justice between Confucianism, socialism and equality in modern China: Challenges and opportunities for national and local stakeholders - Yunyan Li


6. Putting together a jigsaw puzzle? Family, emotional support and youth transitions - Antonios Roumpakis, Aniela Wenham, Katherine A Smith


7. Understanding housing issues and satisfaction in Lithuania - Jolanta Aidukaite, Kristina Senkuviene, Ruta Ubareviciene


8. New routes? Different ways of cooperation between SLBs in Austria, Denmark and Germany - Sebastian Brandl, Thorsten Braun, Edda Luth, Michaela Schulze


9. Disconnecting the dots: framing analysis of social, economic and environmental sustainability in Swedish health care system - Carl-Johan Sommar, Johan Nordensvaerd


10. Complaining is futile? Feasibility of using complaints in the regulation of social care - Poland Lai