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The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complex
embeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been
underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis. This
Handbook gives readers the analytical tools to understand urban
social policies in context and bridges the gap in research. It
provides a novel perspective of social policy analysis, answering
the common debates such as: what is the role of local institutions
in welfare provisions? Do they exert an influence beyond their
jurisdiction? What difference can we trace among different types of
locales (e.g. urban vs. rural)? How does the role of cities change
in different national regulatory systems? Chapters disentangle the
interplay between jurisdictions, politics, policy instruments and
contexts in the spatial construction of social policies. Thanks to
the impressive selection of contributors, the volume discusses
urban social policies with broad geographical coverage including
cases from Europe, North America, South America and Asia, and
provides cursory references to the COVID-19 pandemic in different
policy fields. This book will be of interest to a broad range of
students in different fields from welfare to urban studies, as well
as those interested in multilevel governance and policy analysis.
Scholars interested in comparative social policy, but also in
social innovation, public administration and political science,
will also find this book a good companion.
This book explores and debates the urban transformations that have
taken place in Vienna over the past 30 years and their consequences
in policy fields such as labour and housing, political and social
participation and the environment. Historically, European cities
have been characterised by a strong association between social
cohesion, quality of life, economic ambition and a robust State.
Vienna is an excellent example for that. In more recent years,
however, cities were pressured to change policy principles and
mechanisms in the context of demographic shifts, post-industrial
transformations and welfare recalibration which have led to
worsened social conditions in many cities. Each chapter in this
volume discusses Vienna's responses to these pressures in key
policy arenas, looking at outcomes from the context-specific local
arrangements. Against a theoretical framework debating the European
city as a model of inclusion and social justice, authors explore
the local capacity to innovate urban policies and to address new
social risks, while paying attention to potential trade-offs. The
book questions and assesses the city's resilience using time series
and an institutional analysis of four key dimensions that
characterise the European city model within the context of
post-industrial transition: redistribution, recognition,
representation and sustainability. It offers a multiscalar
perspective of urban governance through labour, housing,
participatory and environmental policies, bringing together
different levels and public policy types. Vienna: Still a Just
City? is aimed at academics, researchers and policy-makers in urban
studies, including urban sociology, ecology, geography and welfare.
The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Italy is not a country for young people. Why? This book provides a
unique and in-depth collection of empirical and theoretical
material providing multiple answers to this question whilst
investigating the living conditions of young people in Italy today.
By bringing together a variety of approaches and methods, the
authors of this collection analyze Italian youth through the lenses
of three dimensions: 'Activism, participation and citizenship',
'Work, Employment and Careers' and 'Moves, Transitions and
Representations'. These dimensions are the analytical building
blocks for challenging stereotypes and unveiling misinterpretations
and taken-for-granted assumptions that portray young people in
Italy as selfish, 'choosy', and unwilling to make sacrifices,
commit and manage an independent life. These prejudices often
underplay the role of constraints they are facing in the transition
to adulthood. Studying Italian youth, therefore, not only allows us
to capture their peculiar characteristics but also to reflect more
broadly on the conceptual toolbox we need in order to understand
contemporary youth more generally. By doing so, the volume aims to
contribute to international discussion on the youth condition in
Europe.
The workings of multi-level governance -- institutional choices
concerning centralisation, decentralisation and subsidiarity -- are
widely debated within European public policy, but few systematic
studies assessing the effects of changing divisions of power for
policy-making have been carried out. This volume offers an
assessment of the workings of multi-level governance in terms of
social welfare policy across different clusters of European states
-- Nordic, Southern European, Central and East European. This book
reports on a major comparative study at the European Centre for
Social Welfare policy and Research, which included partners from
univerisities in Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Poland,
Spain and Switzerland. It reports on three particular policy areas:
social assistance and local policies against poverty; activation
and labour market policies; and care for the elderly. The authors
describe different starting points, strategies and solutions in
European countries which are facing similar challenges and could
thus learn from each other. They explore the differences between
European welfare regimes in terms of territorial responsibilities,
the changes that have taken place over the past few years and their
effects. The book is distinctive in highlighting comparative
transversal and transnational issues of multi-level governance in
social welfare policies, rather than presenting country reports.
The workings of multi-level governance -- institutional choices
concerning centralisation, decentralisation and subsidiarity -- are
widely debated within European public policy, but few systematic
studies assessing the effects of changing divisions of power for
policy-making have been carried out. This volume offers an
assessment of the workings of multi-level governance in terms of
social welfare policy across different clusters of European states
-- Nordic, Southern European, Central and East European. This book
reports on a major comparative study at the European Centre for
Social Welfare policy and Research, which included partners from
univerisities in Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Poland,
Spain and Switzerland. It reports on three particular policy areas:
social assistance and local policies against poverty; activation
and labour market policies; and care for the elderly. The authors
describe different starting points, strategies and solutions in
European countries which are facing similar challenges and could
thus learn from each other. They explore the differences between
European welfare regimes in terms of territorial responsibilities,
the changes that have taken place over the past few years and their
effects. The book is distinctive in highlighting comparative
transversal and transnational issues of multi-level governance in
social welfare policies, rather than presenting country reports.
Italy is not a country for young people. Why? This book provides a
unique and in-depth collection of empirical and theoretical
material providing multiple answers to this question whilst
investigating the living conditions of young people in Italy today.
By bringing together a variety of approaches and methods, the
authors of this collection analyze Italian youth through the lenses
of three dimensions: 'Activism, participation and citizenship',
'Work, Employment and Careers' and 'Moves, Transitions and
Representations'. These dimensions are the analytical building
blocks for challenging stereotypes and unveiling misinterpretations
and taken-for-granted assumptions that portray young people in
Italy as selfish, 'choosy', and unwilling to make sacrifices,
commit and manage an independent life. These prejudices often
underplay the role of constraints they are facing in the transition
to adulthood. Studying Italian youth, therefore, not only allows us
to capture their peculiar characteristics but also to reflect more
broadly on the conceptual toolbox we need in order to understand
contemporary youth more generally. By doing so, the volume aims to
contribute to international discussion on the youth condition in
Europe.
Based on more than 30 case studies in eight different countries,
this book explores the governance dynamics of local social
innovations in the field of poverty reduction. The diverse team of
contributors illustrate how different governance dynamics and
welfare mixes enable or hinder poverty reduction strategies and
analyse how they involve a variety of actors, instruments and
resources at different spatial scales.
Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century,
industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has
set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today,
it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation
based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition
now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical
exploration of capitalism in transition, bringing together cutting
edge, world renowned scholars who reflect from different
disciplinary points of view. This collection engages with the
primarily Western themes of welfare capitalism and social
fragmentation. Structured over three parts, the book analyses; the
transformations of welfare societies and capitalism with a focus on
South European welfare states and their (in)capacity to tackle
poverty; the transformation of work and migration with a special
attention to informality and the question of social rights; and the
transformation of cities. This book is relevant to United Nations
Sustainable Development Goal 1, No poverty. -- .
Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century,
industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has
set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today,
it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation
based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition
now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical
exploration of capitalism in transition, bringing together cutting
edge, world renowned scholars who reflect from different
disciplinary points of view. This collection engages with the
primarily Western themes of welfare capitalism and social
fragmentation. Structured over three parts, the book analyses; the
transformations of welfare societies and capitalism with a focus on
South European welfare states and their (in)capacity to tackle
poverty; the transformation of work and migration with a special
attention to informality and the question of social rights; and the
transformation of cities. This book is relevant to United Nations
Sustainable Development Goal 1, No poverty. -- .
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