/Political-Determinants-of-Social-Assistance-Policies

Social assistance programs and the related literature are proliferating globally. This article conducts a critical systematic review of the literature with objective and transparent selection criteria and illustrates two major shortcomings: First, the literature is largely descriptive and impact-oriented as analytical studies on the determinants/causes of social assistance programs are relatively under-examined. Second, it identifies a gap in the literature, which emanates from the relative under-examination of political, and especially contentious political, factors in scholarly analyses of determinants/causes of social assistance programs in comparison to structuralist, institutional, and ideational approaches.

Political-Determinants-of-Social-Assistance-Policies

The supplemental material includes three datasets that are originally developed by the authors for this research. They contain and classify groups of previous publications as follow:

  1. List of Studies that examine Political Determinants and Classifications of these Studies
  2. List of all Studies that examine Determinants of Social Assistance and Classifications of these Studies
  3. Sample of 100 randomly selected studies to examine structure of excluded studies

Full article name: Political Determinants of Social Assistance Policies: A Critical Global Comparative Systematic Literature Review

Authors: Erdem Yörük, M. Fuat Kına, Ali Bargu

Abstract:

Social assistance programs and the related literature are proliferating globally. This article conducts a critical systematic review of the literature with objective and transparent selection criteria and illustrates two major shortcomings: First, the literature is largely descriptive and impact-oriented as analytical studies on the determinants/causes of social assistance programs are relatively under-examined. Second, it identifies a gap in the literature, which emanates from the relative under-examination of political, and especially contentious political, factors in scholarly analyses of determinants/causes of social assistance programs in comparison to structuralist, institutional, and ideational approaches.

Citation:

Erdem Yörük, Mehmet Fuat Kina & Ali Bargu (2022) Political Determinants of Social Assistance Policies: A Critical Global Comparative Systematic Literature Review, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2022.2098721