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Studying social policy in the digital age

In: Social Policy in Changing European Societies

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  • Minna van Gerven

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This chapter discusses the evolving social policy research in the context of technological change. From the start of the 21st century, the emerging literature suggests a birth of a "digital welfare state", where digitalisation and automation have been made an integral part of welfare benefit and service delivery. Emergent social policy literature shows that many technological innovations 'disrupt' existing welfare systems and practices and their impact goes beyond the transformation of the way the welfare state operates. The technological advancement also produces (new) social risks for the welfare states to be catered for. In this chapter, I also propose a two-fold research agenda for studying digital welfare governance as well as its impact in the social policy domains of welfare and work in this new and quickly emerging field.

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  • Minna van Gerven, 2022. "Studying social policy in the digital age," Chapters, in: Kenneth Nelson & Rense Nieuwenhuis & Mara A. Yerkes (ed.), Social Policy in Changing European Societies, chapter 16, pages 251-264, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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