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In "What the street level can teach us about the social investment state – Insights from encounters between caseworkers and vulnerable unemployed clients in Denmark" Mathias Herup Nielsen adds a street-level perspective to the scholarly discussions over social investment and elaborate its implications for how to think about the social investment state.

https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993251349015

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In "What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state" @ludvigsev and Troels Krarup find utilitarian logics similar to the modern social investment paradigm were central in the early formative period of the welfare state.

The article is part of the upcoming special issue on "Social Investment in Action" edited by @ditteandersen and Magnus Paulsen Hansen.

https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993251339011

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🚨📃👀 New paper from upcoming special issue on Social Investment in Action

In "Making up the market: Job-seeker courses and the ordinary ethics of social investment in Norway" Kelly McKowen proposes that we view social investment as a normative order animated by assumptions and claims about the relationship between human capital, economic growth, and individual and social welfare.
Link to article 👇
https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993251334487

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📃👀 Check out @Cbjerre new article where she examines the historical evolution of social investment, focusing on placed-out children from the 1920s to the 1970s, and introduces two key concepts, Worker Investment and Family Investment.

This piece is part of upcoming special issue on "Social Investment in Action" edited by @ditteandersen and Magnus Paulsen Hansen.

Link to full article👇
https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993251330959

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In "The persuasion of evaluation: The argumentation for social investment fund evaluation in Swedish local government" Kettil Nordesjö exposes the logics used to justify and legitimise evaluation in human service organisations.
Part of upcoming special issue on 'Social Investment in Action' edited by @ditteandersen and Magnus Paulsen Hansen.

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00016993251322878

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"From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance" by @ollitii and Mikko J Virtanen out now as part of upcoming special issue on 'Social Investment in Action' edited by @ditteandersen and Magnus Paulsen Hansen.

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https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993251319657

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Taking heed of Elizabeth Anderson's relational understanding of justice, Azizjon Bagadirov, Anton Hemerijck and Pablo Puertas Roig propose "Stepping-stone solidarity" as framework for the "normative foundation of the social investment welfare state"

https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993251319682

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People believe that The Scottish Government has a moral responsibility to look after people.

We're proud to raise our voice with Oxfam Scotland and other colleagues to say that now is the time for #FairTax.

https://oxfamapps.org/scotland/2023/09/13/fair-tax-changes-in-scotland-could-boost-spending-on-key-national-priorities-by-hundreds-of-millions-per-year-say-campaigners/

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