With the rising use of Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs (IPEDs), research has increasingly pointed to a need for in-depth understanding of users’ consumption behaviours, in order to form effective harm reduction policy. With polydrug use prevalent in IPED-using cultures, both among ‘hardcore’ and non-competitive trainers, it is clear there is a need to understand this use,…Continue Reading Polydrug use and drug market intersections within powerlifting cultures in remote South-West England
Day: February 25, 2021
What Drives the Immigration-Welfare Policy Link? Comparing Germany, France and the United Kingdom
Western European states have increasingly linked immigration and welfare policy. This trend has important implications for European welfare-state trajectories, but accounts of the policy reasoning behind it have diverged. Are policymakers attempting to delimit social citizenship to secure welfare-state legitimacy? Pursuing new, market-oriented welfare-state goals? Symbolically communicating immigration control intentions to voters? Or attempting to…Continue Reading What Drives the Immigration-Welfare Policy Link? Comparing Germany, France and the United Kingdom