Abstract Across the globe, movements are confronting states and elites, challenging inequalities mobilising for greater justice, a stronger voice, progressive policy changes. In this article, I bridge divide between Social Policy interdisciplinary field of Movement Studies. examine how why social movements, as actors in fields movement theories, matter policy. argue that research on engagement ...

We examine the influence of individual characteristics and targeted and universal social policy on single-mother poverty with a multilevel analysis across 18 affluent Western democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single-mother poverty than in poverty among the overall population. By far, the United State...