Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems

1. A move towards the local? The relevance of a local welfare system approach, Håkan Johansson and Alexandru Panican 2. The local welfare system as a scale question, Simone Scarpa 3. Conceptualising local welfare systems: exploring the role of actors and governance arrangements, Håkan Johansson and Max Koch 4. Combating poverty through 'active inclusion'? The European and national contexts, Daniel Clegg 5. Strategies against poverty and social exclusion in a corporatist-conservative local welfare system: The Dortmund consensus, Dorothee Spannagel 6. Anti-poverty activities in a liberal welfare model: Local levers and multi-level tensions in Glasgow, UK, Hayley Bennett 7. Strategies against poverty in a Social democratic local welfare system: still the responsibility of public actors?, Alexandru Panican and Håkan Johansson 8. Active inclusion in a Southern European local welfare system: Combining fragmentation and public-private partnership in Turin, Franca Maino 9. Poland' active inclusion model - still in transition? The case of public agencies' tensions and emerging role of CSOs in Radom, Julia Kubisa and Justyna Zielinska 10. Worlds of active inclusion at the local level: a comparative analysis, Alexandru Panican and Anna Angelin 11. Concluding remarks: Exploring the consequences of scale and place for local active inclusion strategies,... Mehr