Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems (Work and Welfare in Europe)

This book analyzes national anti-poverty measures at a local level via a set of unique and up-to-date empirical studies of minimum income support schemes and activation measures in five European cities. In examining this 'local welfare system' approach, it investigates the role that civil society organizations play, and the governance arrangements that prevail in contacts between public and civil society actors in local anti-poverty strategies. The current financial and economic crisis has caused increasing levels of poverty and unemployment, and put national minimum income protection schemes under severe strain. __Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems__ therefore represents a timely and important intervention in the political and scientific debates as to whether more ‘local welfare’ is the solution to the challenges facing European welfare states. A Move Towards The Local? : The Relevance Of A Local Welfare System Approach / Håkan Johansson, Alexandru Panican -- The Local Welfare System As A Scale Question / Simone Scarpa -- Conceptualising Local Welfare Systems : Exploring The Role Of Actors And Governance Arrangements / Håkan Johansson, Max Koch -- Combating Poverty Through Active Inclusion? : The European And National Contexts / Daniel Clegg -- Strategies Against Poverty And Social Exclusion In A Corporatist-conservative Local Welfare System : The Dortmund Consensus / Dorothee Spannagel -- Anti-poverty Activities In A Liberal Welfare Model : Local Levers And Multi-level Tensions In Glasgow, Uk / Hayley Bennett -- Strategies Against Poverty In A Social Democratic Local Welfare System : Still The Responsibility Of Public Actors? / Alexandru, Jonansson -- Active Inclusion In A Southern European Local Welfare System : Combining Fragmentation And Public-private Partnership In Turin / Franca Maino -- Poland's Active Inclusion Model--still In Transition? : The Case Of Public Agencies' Tensions And Emerging Role Of Civil Society Organisations In Radom / Julia Kubisa, Justyna Zielińska -- Worlds Of Active Inclusion At Local Level : A Comparative Analysis / Alexandru Panican, Anna Angelin -- Concluding Remarks : Exploring The Consequences Of Scale And Place For Local Active Inclusion Strategies / Håkan Johansson, Bjørn Hvinden. Håkan Johansson, Alexandru Panican, Editors. Includes Bibliographical Refarences And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii A Move Towards the Local? The Relevance of a Local Welfare System Approach....Pages 1-28 The Local Welfare System as a Scale Question....Pages 29-51 Conceptualising Local Welfare Systems: Exploring the Role of Actors and Governance Arrangements....Pages 53-76 Combating Poverty Through ‘Active Inclusion’? The European and National Contexts....Pages 77-104 Strategies Against Poverty and Social Exclusion in a Corporatist–Conservative Local Welfare System: The Dortmund Consensus....Pages 105-127 Anti-poverty Activities in a Liberal Welfare Model: Local Levers and Multi-level Tensions in Glasgow, UK....Pages 129-154 Strategies Against Poverty in a Social Democratic Local Welfare System: Still the Responsibility of Public Actors?....Pages 155-177 Active Inclusion in a Southern European Local Welfare System: Combining Fragmentation and Public–Private Partnership in Turin....Pages 179-206 Poland’s Active Inclusion Model—Still in Transition? The Case of Public Agencies’ Tensions and Emerging Role of Civil Society Organisations in Radom....Pages 207-229 Worlds of Active Inclusion at Local Level: A Comparative Analysis....Pages 231-260 Concluding Remarks: Exploring the Consequences of Scale and Place for Local Active Inclusion Strategies....Pages 261-275 Back Matter....Pages 277-285