Handbook on Social Innovation and Social Policy (Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare)

Applying a critical perspective to stimulate dialogue and mutual learning between the interconnected fields of social innovation and social policy analysis, this dynamic Handbook investigates the often-contested relationship between these two areas of enquiry and practice. Bringing together discerning contributions from a diverse team of international scholars and analysts, the Handbook explores key policy insights, practical lessons and advances in theoretical understanding which can be drawn from social innovation and social policy. Chapters examine a comprehensive range of social issues and policy areas including sustainable development, employment, immigration, financial exclusion, digital services, food provision, health and social care, and gender equality. Presenting distinctive new insights into how social innovation and social policy can address these issues, the Handbook ultimately considers how social innovation can offer solutions and ways forward in response to emerging social problems and persistent welfare needs. This expansive Handbook will be invaluable for academics, scholars, and advanced students of social policy, social innovation and enterprise, public management and administration, and politics. Locating the relationship between social innovation and social policy in historical, theoretical, and practical contexts, it will also benefit civil society organisations and public policymakers tasked with developing and implementing innovations and reforms in key policy areas. Front Matter Copyright Contents Figures Tables Contributors 1. Introduction: social innovation and social policy: a critical relationship 2. Social innovation and public policy 3. Social innovation and social policy analysis 4. Richard M. Titmuss revisited: social innovation and the crises ecosystem 5. The impact of social innovation on local welfare policy: lessons from a capability perspective 6. Deliberate social innovations: on policy impact and policy transfer 7. Methodological resilience: researching social inclusion and social innovation in Latin America 8. Paying for and providing social policies and social innovations 9. Social policy, social innovation and gender equality 10. Social innovation and sustainable development 11. Social innovation and social policy in Sub-Saharan Africa 12. Social innovation in the Middle East and North Africa Region: implications for social policy thinking and practice 13. Exploring interrelationships between social innovation, social policy, and people-centred social change in India 14. Social policy, social innovation and health: tackling health inequalities in the United Kingdom 15. Innovating health services: the role of embedded social innovation movements 16. Social policy, social innovation and older people 17. Social innovation and migration 18. Top-down funded employment integration programmes: promoting bottom-up social innovation to empower the disadvantaged 19. Social innovation and collaborative governance: the case of surplus food redistribution 20. Between green economy and reformism: an exploration of circular economy and social economy policy convergence in Quebec 21. Alternative platforms? On the dilemmas of policy and innovation in digital infrastructure 22. Design thinking for social innovation 23. Social innovation and citizen participation: the crucial coupling 24. Conclusion: the future of social innovation and social policy Index