Culture, Practice & Europeanization

Expanding on the concept of the moral economy, the article investigates implicit justice assumptions connected to family policies in post-industrial European welfare states. Most authors argue that family policies support new understandings of...

Non-take-up of financial social benefits is a prominent issue for contemporary welfare states, and studies exploring its causes have proliferated recently. However, most analyses are based on an “incapacity framework” or refer to a “rational...

Non-take-up, describing the situation in which an eligible person does not benefit from one or more rights to which he or she is entitled, is a topic of growing interest in most European welfare states. A large volume of literature now documents the...

The issue of non-take-up has increasingly been brought to light by scholars and field actors during the past decade. As a result, the issue gained political traction, and programs have been designed to reduce it. In canton Geneva, Switzerland, a...

Although the private rental sector has registered growth in recent years, knowledge about small-scale landlords (SSL) as key actors in housing provision is still scant, especially when it comes to their social position. From an inequality...

This paper explores the financialisation of housing in Germany’s social rental housing sector, focusing on the lived experiences of tenants. Drawing on a relational feminist lens, the study examines how macro-level policy shifts, financialised...