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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
ACOSS Papers     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Adoption & Fostering     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Advances in Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 38)
African Journal of Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
African Security     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 6)
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 45)
Argumentum     Open Access  
Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Asian Journal of Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Asian Social Work and Policy Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Australasian Journal of Human Security     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Australasian Policing     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 7)
Australian Ageing Agenda     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 5)
Australian Journal of Emergency Management     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 19)
Australian Journal of Social Issues     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 6)
Australian Journal on Volunteering     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Australian Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
AZARBE : Revista Internacional de Trabajo Social y Bienestar     Open Access  
Bakti Budaya     Open Access  
Basic and Applied Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 47)
British Journal of Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 80)
Campbell Systematic Reviews     Open Access   (Followers: 7)
Canadian Social Work Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 13)
Care Management Journals     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
Clinical Social Work Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 30)
Columbia Social Work Review     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Communities, Children and Families Australia     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Community Development     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Community, Work & Family     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 25)
Contemporary Rural Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 13)
Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Counsellor (The)     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 3)
Critical Policy Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 17)
Critical Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 51)
Cuadernos de Trabajo Social     Open Access  
Death Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Developing Practice : The Child, Youth and Family Work Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 16)
Developmental Child Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 13)
Ethics and Social Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 24)
European Journal of Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 49)
European Journal of Social Security     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
European Journal of Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 38)
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 39)
European Review of Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare : Finjehew     Open Access  
Geopolitical, Social Security and Freedom Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Global Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 36)
Global Social Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 6)
Grief Matters : The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 14)
Groupwork     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Health & Social Care In the Community     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 50)
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Health and Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 63)
HOLISTICA ? Journal of Business and Public Administration     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Hong Kong Journal of Social Work, The     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Housing Policy Debate     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Human Service Organizations Management, Leadership and Governance     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 24)
International Journal of Ageing and Later Life     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
International Journal of Disability Management Research     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
International Journal of East Asian Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
International Journal of School Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 10)
International Journal of Social Research Methodology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 60)
International Journal of Social Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
International Journal of Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 23)
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 68)
International Journal on Child Maltreatment : Research, Policy and Practice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
International Social Science Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 22)
International Social Security Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 9)
International Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Janus Sosiaalipolitiikan ja sosiaalityön tutkimuksen aikakauslehti     Open Access  
Journal for Specialists in Group Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Applied Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 61)
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Journal of Care Services Management     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Journal of Child and Adolescent Counseling     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology     Partially Free   (Followers: 19)
Journal of Community Practice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
Journal of Comparative Social Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 16)
Journal of Comparative Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Journal of Danubian Studies and Research     Open Access  
Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Journal of European Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 38)
Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 29)
Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 9)
Journal of Family Issues     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 22)
Journal of Forensic Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 9)
Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Journal of Human Rights and Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Journal of Integrated Care     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
Journal of Language and Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 22)
Journal of Occupational Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 27)
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 393)
Journal of Policy Practice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Journal of Policy Practice and Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Journal of Prevention & Intervention Community     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Journal of Professional Counseling: Practice, Theory & Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Public Health     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 209)
Journal of Public Mental Health     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 15)
Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Journal of Social Development in Africa     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Journal of Social Issues     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
Journal of Social Philosophy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 27)
Journal of Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 44)
Journal of Social Service Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Journal of Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 95)
Journal of Social Work Education     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 16)
Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 14)
Journal of Social Work in the Global Community     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 11)
Just Policy: A Journal of Australian Social Policy     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 6)
Kontext : Zeitschrift für Systemische Therapie und Familientherapie     Hybrid Journal  
L'Orientation scolaire et professionnelle     Open Access  
Learning in Health and Social Care     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Leidfaden : Fachmagazin für Krisen, Leid, Trauer     Hybrid Journal  
Links to Health and Social Care     Open Access  
Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Mental Health and Social Inclusion     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 38)
Mental Health and Substance Use: dual diagnosis     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 25)
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Mortality: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
National Emergency Response     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
New Zealand Journal of Occupational Therapy     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 78)
Nordic Social Work Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research     Open Access  
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Nouvelles pratiques sociales     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Nusantara of Research: Jurnal Hasil-hasil Penelitian Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Parity     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Partner Abuse     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 9)
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 237)
Personality and Social Psychology Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 57)
Philosophy & Social Criticism     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 22)
Policy Sciences     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 15)
Practice: Social Work in Action     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 15)
Prospectiva : Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social     Open Access  
Psychoanalytic Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Public Policy and Aging Report     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Qualitative Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 37)
Qualitative Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 44)
Race and Social Problems     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 15)
Research on Economic Inequality     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
Research on Language and Social Interaction     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Research on Social Work Practice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 29)
Review of Social Economy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
Revista Internacional De Seguridad Social     Hybrid Journal  
Revista Serviço Social em Perspectiva     Open Access  
Safer Communities     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 44)
Science and Public Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 28)
Self and Identity     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Sexual Abuse in Australia and New Zealand     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 9)
Skriftserien Socialt Arbejde     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Social Action : The Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology     Free   (Followers: 3)
Social and Personality Psychology Compass     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 20)
Social Behavior and Personality : An International Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 14)
Social Choice and Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Social Cognition     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 20)
Social Compass     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Social Influence     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Social Justice Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 25)
Social Philosophy and Policy     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 25)
Social Policy & Administration     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 32)
Social Policy and Society     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 174)
Social Science Japan Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Social Semiotics     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 40)
Social Work & Social Sciences Review     Open Access   (Followers: 20)
Social Work and Society     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Social Work Education: The International Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 14)
Social Work Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 26)
Social Work Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 16)
Social Work With Groups     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Socialinė teorija, empirija, politika ir praktika     Open Access  
Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift     Open Access  
Society and Mental Health     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 14)
Soziale Passagen     Hybrid Journal  
Tempo Social     Open Access  
The Milbank Quarterly     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Third Sector Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 3)
Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning     Open Access  
Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning     Open Access  
Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern     Full-text available via subscription  
unsere jugend     Full-text available via subscription  
Violence and Victims     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 52)
Voces desde el Trabajo Social     Open Access  
Volunteer Management Report     Full-text available via subscription  
Youth Studies Australia     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 3)

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  • Egalitarian-in-deviation rules relative to a reference system for
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      Abstract: We study claims problems in which agents may also have reference points. We show first that many classical rules satisfy an egalitarian property in this setting; namely, the differences between each agents’ payoff and the corresponding reference value are as equal as possible. We also introduce a broad class of rules that satisfy a generalized condition, dubbed egalitarian-in-deviation relative to a reference system. For each problem, the system proposes a reference vector which is a function of the claims. We show that these rules allocate the nearest efficient point to the reference vector. Our findings generalize previous results in the literature, such as the one stating that the CEA rule minimizes the squared distance to the equal division point. Concede-and-divide, a focal rule to solve two-agent claims problems, does not satisfy the egalitarian-in-deviation condition relative to any reference system. But, under certain conditions, it can be reinterpreted as the limit of a weighted egalitarian-in-deviation rule. Finally, we explore the behavior of egalitarian-in-deviation rules with respect to the important notions of consistency and duality.
      PubDate: 2025-07-01
       
  • When can an outsider bribe voters one by one at a negligible cost'

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      Abstract: We discuss sequential vote-buying games, wherein an outsider, called the “principal,” sequentially attempts to influence committee members with opposite preferences regarding a project implementation before they make a decision through generalized majority voting. To characterize the equilibria, we introduce the affordably bribable groups within the members of the generalized majority, which are sets of members from whom the principal can buy votes at a cost below his gain from the project implementation. It is shown that the bribe amount and the committee decision are uniquely determined, given a sequential vote-buying game. In addition, we provide the conditions under which the principal successfully buys votes, and does so at a negligible cost, by comparing the number of affordably bribable groups with the number of members who do not belong to the generalized majority. Based on our characterization of equilibrium, we discuss the effects of committee size, derivations of simple and supermajority rules, whom to bribe, and the order of bribing.
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  • Inequality decomposition analysis, the Lorenz curve and the Gini
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      Abstract: We compare two alternative procedures for decomposing the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient into within-groups and between-groups contributions: the standard additive decomposition (Bhattacharya and Mahalanobis in J Am Stat Assoc 62(317):143–161, 1967) and another inspired by the path-independent decomposition (Foster and Shneyerov in J Econ Theory 91(2):199–222, 2000). We show that the former approach offers a clean measure of the between-group inequality, which is insensitive to changes in the distribution that do not alter the relative difference between the groups’ averages. On the other hand, the latter approach offers an unbiased measure of the within-group inequality, which is independent of the between-group component. Hence, we propose and interpret a new decomposition of the Gini index that is based on the path-independent approach. Finally, we explore the implications of Lorenz between-group dominance combined with Lorenz within-group dominance. We show the difficulty of defining sufficient conditions for two Lorenz curves not to intersect and suggest an alternative partial order based on concentration curves which does not account for the overlap between groups.
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  • Implementation of welfare maximizing networks

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      Abstract: We consider network formation, where some locations can be connected. Every network has a cost and every agent has an individual value of every network. A planner aims at implementing a welfare maximizing network and allocating the resulting cost, but information is asymmetric: agents are fully informed and the planner is ignorant. Full implementation in Nash and strong Nash equilibria is studied. We show the correspondence consisting of welfare maximizing networks and individually rational cost allocations is implementable. We construct a minimal Nash implementable, welfare maximizing, and individually rational solution in the set of upper hemi-continuous and Nash implementable solutions. It is not possible to implement solutions such as the Shapley value unless we settle for partial implementation.
      PubDate: 2025-06-16
       
  • Network-based allocation of responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions

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      Abstract: We provide an axiomatic approach to the allocation of responsibility for GHG emissions in supply chains. Considering a set of axioms standardly used in networks and decision theory, and consistent with legal principles underlying responsibility, we show that responsibility measures shall be based on exponential discounting of upstream and downstream emissions. From a network theory perspective, the proposed responsibility measure corresponds to a convex combination of the Bonacich centralities for the upstream and downstream weighted adjacency matrices. Scope 1 emissions, consumption-based accounting and income-based accounting are obtained as particular cases of our approach, which also gives a precise meaning to scope 3 emissions while avoiding double-counting. We apply our approach to the assessment of country-level responsibility for global GHG emissions and to sector-level responsibility in the USA. We examine how the responsibility of countries/sectors varies with the discounting of indirect emissions. We identify three groups of countries/sectors: producers of emissions whose responsibility decreases with the discounting factor, consumers of emissions whose responsibility increases with the discounting factor, and an intermediary group whose responsibility mostly depends on the network position and varies non-monotonically with the discounting factor. Overall, our axiomatic approach provides strong normative foundations for the definition of reporting requirements for indirect emissions and for the allocation of responsibility in claims for climate-related loss and damage.
      PubDate: 2025-06-16
       
  • An extension of May’s Theorem to three alternatives: axiomatizing
           Minimax voting

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      Abstract: May’s Theorem [K. O. May, Econometrica 20 (1952) 680-684] characterizes majority voting on two alternatives as the unique preferential voting method satisfying several simple axioms. Here we show that by adding some desirable axioms to May’s axioms, we can uniquely determine how to vote on three alternatives (setting aside tiebreaking). In particular, we add two axioms stating that the voting method should mitigate spoiler effects and the so-called strong no show paradox. We prove a theorem stating that any preferential voting method satisfying our enlarged set of axioms, which includes some weak homogeneity and preservation axioms, must choose from among the Minimax winners in all three-alternative elections. When applied to more than three alternatives, our axioms also distinguish Minimax from other known voting methods that coincide with or refine Minimax for three alternatives.
      PubDate: 2025-06-13
       
  • A combinatorial topology approach to Arrow’s impossibility theorem

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      Abstract: Baryshnikov presented a remarkable algebraic topology proof of Arrow’s impossibility theorem trying to understand the underlying reason behind the numerous proofs of this fundamental result of social choice theory. We continue this program, but focusing on combinatorial topology arguments that do not use advanced mathematics, providing a very intuitive geometric reason for Arrow’s impossibility under domain restrictions. We present a geometric proof for the basis case of two voters, $$n=2$$, and three alternatives, $$ X =3$$, based on the index lemma, that counts the absolute number of times that a closed curve in the plane travels around a point. This yields a characterization of the domain restrictions that allow non-dictatorial aggregation functions and, as a consequence, Baryshnikov’s conjecture relating such domains with contractible spaces is revealed as untrue. It also exposes the geometry behind prior pivotal arguments to Arrow’s impossibility. We explain why the basis case of two voters, is where this interesting geometry happens, by giving a simple proof that this case implies Arrow’s impossibility for any $$ X \ge 3$$ and any finite $$n\ge 2$$.
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  • The Banks set and the bipartisan set may be disjoint

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      Abstract: Tournament solutions play an important role within social choice theory and the mathematical social sciences at large. We construct a tournament of order 36 that can be partitioned into the Banks set and the bipartisan set. As a consequence, the Banks set, as well as its refinements, such as the minimal extending set and the tournament equilibrium set, can be disjoint from the bipartisan set.
      PubDate: 2025-06-02
       
  • Divided we stand: a fiscal bargaining model for heterogeneous countries

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      Abstract: This paper proposes a multi-region fiscal bargaining model where country border stability depends on preference heterogeneity, income inequality and scale economies in public policy. It demonstrates how increasing preference heterogeneity can increase border stability by increasing political disagreements over government expenditures, reducing the willingness to pay taxes and better aligning them with the fiscal preferences of the discontented and the wealthy. Hence, stable and efficient country borders may require a minimal degree of preference heterogeneity or, lacking that, stabilization through a credible tax ceiling, compensating transfers or fiscal decentralization.
      PubDate: 2025-05-30
       
  • Lack of opportunities, non-paternalism, and priority to the worst off

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      Abstract: This paper presents a novel welfare approach that focuses on and prioritizes the worst-off. It bridges the gap between social welfare functions and poverty measures to provide a new tool for policy analysis. In contrast to social welfare functions, individuals are compared in terms of their lack of opportunities for a decent standard of living. In contrast to poverty measures, the assessment of individuals is non-paternalistic and respects individuals’ views of what constitutes a good life. The characterized social deprivation function is also generalized to differences in household needs.
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  • Optimal enfranchisement

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      Abstract: We study the optimal voting franchise for a decision which affects different persons with different intensities. When the agents’ opinions are ex ante permutation invariant, we show that it is optimal to restrict the franchise to the agents with the highest stakes, with a smaller franchise when the stakes are more concentrated. When they are i.i.d. (all voters independently favour Yes with the same probability p), we further show that two forces are at work: on the one hand, the imperative to restrict voting rights to those most affected; on the other, when and only when $$p \ne 1/2$$, the Condorcet jury effect according to which allowing more voters to participate increases the probability of making the right decision. This helps to shed light on the problem in large populations.
      PubDate: 2025-05-26
       
  • Campaign contributions and policy divergence

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      Abstract: Standard spatial models of political competition predict that competing candidates would converge to the same policy position. In this paper, we present a novel mechanism of policy divergence in a model of campaign finance, where campaign contributions from ideologically extreme donors can be used to boost the turnout of impressionable voters. In our model, the exact location of the median voter is unknown to the candidates. Together with donors’ contributions, this generates policy divergence even when the candidates are ex-ante identical and purely office-motivated. We characterize the unique equilibrium of the model in mixed strategies and provide closed form expression for the expected level of policy polarization. We further show that polarization is higher when only the incumbent can benefit from campaign contributions.
      PubDate: 2025-05-24
       
  • Equilibria and group welfare in vote trading systems

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      Abstract: We introduce a new framework to study the group dynamics and game-theoretic considerations when voters are allowed to trade votes. This model advances prior work by considering vote-for-vote trades in a low-information environment where voters do not know the preferences of their trading partners and do not abstain from voting. All voters draw their preference intensities on two issues from a common probability distribution and then consider offering to trade with an anonymous partner. The result is a strategic game between two voters that can be studied analytically. We compute the Nash equilibria for this game and derive several interesting results involving symmetry, group heterogeneity, and more. This framework allows us to determine that trades are typically detrimental to the welfare of the group as a whole, but there are exceptions. We also expand our model to allow all voters to trade votes and derive approximate results for this more general scenario. Finally, we emulate vote trading in real groups by forming simulated committees using real voter preference intensity data and computing the resulting equilibria and associated welfare gains or losses.
      PubDate: 2025-05-21
       
  • Identifying the distribution of welfare from discrete choice

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      Abstract: Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals’ preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. We develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these drawbacks. We first adapt the class of individual welfare measures introduced by Fleurbaey (J Econ Lit 47(4):1029–1075, 2009) to settings where individual choice is discrete. Allowing for unrestricted, unobserved preference heterogeneity, these measures become random variables. We then demonstrate that their distribution can be derived from choice probabilities, which can be estimated nonparametrically from cross-sectional data. Additionally, we derive nonparametric results for the joint distribution of welfare and welfare differences, and for social welfare. The former is an important tool in determining whether the winners of a price change belong disproportionately to those groups who were initially well-off.
      PubDate: 2025-05-21
       
  • Community enforcement and the cost of cooperation

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      Abstract: This paper studies how the cost of cooperation affects the effectiveness of community enforcement in a society of strangers, as in Kandori (Rev Econ Stud 59:63–80, 1992) and Ellison (Rev Econ Stud 61:567–588, 1994). We identify a critical threshold for the cost of cooperation, beyond which community punishment becomes a credible sanction to defectors, regardless of the population size and discount factor. Furthermore, we demonstrate that for any population size and discount factor, there exists a target cost of cooperation that makes community enforcement effective in supporting cooperation. This target cost can be used as a coordination device to sustain cooperation as an equilibrium outcome when the cost of cooperation is endogenous.
      PubDate: 2025-05-13
       
  • Clustering in communication networks with different-minded participants

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      Abstract: This paper examines how the structure of communication networks influences learning and social welfare when participants have different prior opinions and face uncertainty about an external state. We analyze a game in which players form links to exchange opinions on the state and reduce their uncertainty. The players hold imperfectly correlated subjective priors on the state. Therefore, their opinions transmit their private signals with frictions, termed interpretation noise. Network clustering facilitates learning by eliminating this interpretation noise. Therefore, the egalitarian efficient network is: a complete component if the interpretation noise is sufficiently high, and a flower otherwise. This network constitutes a Nash equilibrium. These findings establish a link between a key feature of social networks (clustering) and the quality of learning through network communication, offering a potential explanation for the prevalence of clustering in real-world social networks.
      PubDate: 2025-05-12
       
  • Utilitarianism or egalitarianism' A new characterization of the mixed
           utilitarian-maximin social welfare orderings

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      Abstract: There are two dominant criteria for evaluating social welfare, the utilitarian and maximin criteria. Both exhibit extreme properties: the utilitarian criterion focuses exclusively on efficiency, while the maximin criterion is highly concerned with the utility level of the least advantaged individuals. To consider more moderate criteria, this paper modifies the axioms postulating their extreme attitudes. More specifically, we relax Hammond equity of the maximin criterion and the additivity property of the utilitarian criterion. We show that together with standard axioms, these modified axioms characterize the convex combinations of these two welfare criteria, which we call the mixed utilitarian-maximin social welfare orderings.
      PubDate: 2025-05-12
       
  • Lobbying: influence under micro-targeting

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      Abstract: Interest groups (IGs) can potentially influence policy making process or policy outcomes in their favor by using different lobbying tactics. In this paper, we study how and under what circumstances IGs exert influence on policy outcomes when they can use Micro-targeting (MT) as a lobbying strategy, i.e. the IGs can send group specific messages to a subset of voters. In the absence of IGs, the political candidate does not have means to privately commit a policy to a group of voters, who might vote for her after observing such policy commitment. Recognizing this, IGs can get policy favours from the political candidate in exchange for facilitating candidate’s private commitment. We identify conditions in which MT is influential, in the sense of leading to a different policy outcome in the presence of IGs. The analysis fully characterizes the set of influential MT equilibria. The like minded IG does not have any direct influence, but its presence could severely impact the direct influence of unlike minded IGs given that the competing candidates are ideologically motivated. Moreover, this may also lead to polarisation between the two competing candidates.
      PubDate: 2025-05-07
       
  • Approval compatible voting rules

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      Abstract: Suppose voters are asked to submit approval ballots for a certain set of alternatives, with approval voting applied to determine a winning alternative. The same voters are then asked to report rankings over these alternatives, and some voting rule intended for ranked ballots is applied. If voters are sincere, can an approval winner possibly win this second election' Can an approval loser lose that election, or all approval co-winners be co-winners of the election' These questions give rise to three notions of approval compatibility for voting rules: positive, negative, and uniform positive approval compatibility (PAC, NAC, and UPAC). We find that NAC is a very weak notion and UPAC is a very strong one. Moreover, PAC, a stronger variant of it called OPAC, and a weaker variant of UPAC called FUPAC divide usual voting rules into four families: Condorcet-consistent rules satisfy all of them; K-approval rules for $$K\ge 2$$ satisfy none; plurality, plurality with runoff and STV satisfy OPAC but fail FUPAC; and Borda satisfies FUPAC and PAC but fails OPAC.
      PubDate: 2025-04-30
       
  • Honesty and epistemological implementation of social choice functions with
           asymmetric information

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      Abstract: We investigate the implementation of social choice functions with asymmetric information concerning the state from an epistemological perspective. Although agents are either selfish or honest, they do not expect other participants to be honest. However, an honest agent may exist not among participants but in their higher-order beliefs. We assume that “all agents are selfish” never happens to be common knowledge. We show a positive result in general asymmetric information environments, demonstrating that with a minor restriction on signal correlation called information diversity, any incentive-compatible social choice function, whether ethical or nonethical, is uniquely implementable in the Bayesian Nash equilibrium.
      PubDate: 2025-04-21
       
 
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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
ACOSS Papers     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Adoption & Fostering     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Advances in Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 38)
African Journal of Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
African Security     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 6)
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 45)
Argumentum     Open Access  
Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Asian Journal of Social Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Asian Social Work and Policy Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Australasian Journal of Human Security     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Australasian Policing     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 7)
Australian Ageing Agenda     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 5)
Australian Journal of Emergency Management     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 19)
Australian Journal of Social Issues     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 6)
Australian Journal on Volunteering     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Australian Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
AZARBE : Revista Internacional de Trabajo Social y Bienestar     Open Access  
Bakti Budaya     Open Access  
Basic and Applied Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 47)
British Journal of Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 80)
Campbell Systematic Reviews     Open Access   (Followers: 7)
Canadian Social Work Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 13)
Care Management Journals     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
Clinical Social Work Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 30)
Columbia Social Work Review     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Communities, Children and Families Australia     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Community Development     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Community, Work & Family     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 25)
Contemporary Rural Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 13)
Counseling Outcome Research and Evaluation     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Counsellor (The)     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 3)
Critical Policy Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 17)
Critical Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 51)
Cuadernos de Trabajo Social     Open Access  
Death Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Developing Practice : The Child, Youth and Family Work Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 16)
Developmental Child Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 13)
Ethics and Social Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 24)
European Journal of Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 49)
European Journal of Social Security     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
European Journal of Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 38)
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 39)
European Review of Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare : Finjehew     Open Access  
Geopolitical, Social Security and Freedom Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Global Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 36)
Global Social Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 6)
Grief Matters : The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 14)
Groupwork     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Health & Social Care In the Community     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 50)
Health and Social Care Chaplaincy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Health and Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 63)
HOLISTICA ? Journal of Business and Public Administration     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Hong Kong Journal of Social Work, The     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Housing Policy Debate     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Human Service Organizations Management, Leadership and Governance     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 24)
International Journal of Ageing and Later Life     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
International Journal of Disability Management Research     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
International Journal of East Asian Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
International Journal of School Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 10)
International Journal of Social Research Methodology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 60)
International Journal of Social Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
International Journal of Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 23)
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 68)
International Journal on Child Maltreatment : Research, Policy and Practice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
International Social Science Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 22)
International Social Security Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 9)
International Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Janus Sosiaalipolitiikan ja sosiaalityön tutkimuksen aikakauslehti     Open Access  
Journal for Specialists in Group Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Applied Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 61)
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Journal of Care Services Management     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Journal of Child and Adolescent Counseling     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology     Partially Free   (Followers: 19)
Journal of Community Practice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
Journal of Comparative Social Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 16)
Journal of Comparative Social Work     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Journal of Danubian Studies and Research     Open Access  
Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Journal of European Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 38)
Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 29)
Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 9)
Journal of Family Issues     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 22)
Journal of Forensic Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 9)
Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Journal of Human Rights and Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Journal of Integrated Care     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
Journal of Language and Social Psychology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 22)
Journal of Occupational Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 27)
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 393)
Journal of Policy Practice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Journal of Policy Practice and Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Journal of Prevention & Intervention Community     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Journal of Professional Counseling: Practice, Theory & Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Public Health     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 209)
Journal of Public Mental Health     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 15)
Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Journal of Social Development in Africa     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Journal of Social Issues     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 18)
Journal of Social Philosophy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 27)
Journal of Social Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 44)
Journal of Social Service Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Journal of Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 95)
Journal of Social Work Education     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 16)
Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 14)
Journal of Social Work in the Global Community     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 11)
Just Policy: A Journal of Australian Social Policy     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 6)
Kontext : Zeitschrift für Systemische Therapie und Familientherapie     Hybrid Journal  
L'Orientation scolaire et professionnelle     Open Access  
Learning in Health and Social Care     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Leidfaden : Fachmagazin für Krisen, Leid, Trauer     Hybrid Journal  
Links to Health and Social Care     Open Access  
Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Mental Health and Social Inclusion     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 38)
Mental Health and Substance Use: dual diagnosis     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 25)
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Mortality: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
National Emergency Response     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
New Zealand Journal of Occupational Therapy     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 78)
Nordic Social Work Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research     Open Access  
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Nouvelles pratiques sociales     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Nusantara of Research: Jurnal Hasil-hasil Penelitian Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Parity     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Partner Abuse     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 9)
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 237)
Personality and Social Psychology Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 57)
Philosophy & Social Criticism     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 22)
Policy Sciences     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 15)
Practice: Social Work in Action     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 15)
Prospectiva : Revista de Trabajo Social e Intervención Social     Open Access  
Psychoanalytic Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Public Policy and Aging Report     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Qualitative Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 37)
Qualitative Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 44)
Race and Social Problems     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 15)
Research on Economic Inequality     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
Research on Language and Social Interaction     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Research on Social Work Practice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 29)
Review of Social Economy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
Revista Internacional De Seguridad Social     Hybrid Journal  
Revista Serviço Social em Perspectiva     Open Access  
Safer Communities     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 44)
Science and Public Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 28)
Self and Identity     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Sexual Abuse in Australia and New Zealand     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 9)
Skriftserien Socialt Arbejde     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Social Action : The Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology     Free   (Followers: 3)
Social and Personality Psychology Compass     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 20)
Social Behavior and Personality : An International Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 14)
Social Choice and Welfare     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Social Cognition     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 20)
Social Compass     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Social Influence     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Social Justice Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 25)
Social Philosophy and Policy     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 25)
Social Policy & Administration     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 32)
Social Policy and Society     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 174)
Social Science Japan Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Social Semiotics     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Social Work     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 40)
Social Work & Social Sciences Review     Open Access   (Followers: 20)
Social Work and Society     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Social Work Education: The International Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 14)
Social Work Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 26)
Social Work Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 16)
Social Work With Groups     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Socialinė teorija, empirija, politika ir praktika     Open Access  
Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift     Open Access  
Society and Mental Health     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 14)
Soziale Passagen     Hybrid Journal  
Tempo Social     Open Access  
The Milbank Quarterly     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Third Sector Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 3)
Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning     Open Access  
Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning     Open Access  
Tidsskriftet Norges Barnevern     Full-text available via subscription  
unsere jugend     Full-text available via subscription  
Violence and Victims     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 52)
Voces desde el Trabajo Social     Open Access  
Volunteer Management Report     Full-text available via subscription  
Youth Studies Australia     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 3)

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