Handbook on urban social policies : international perspectives on multilevel governance and local welfare / edited by Yuri Kazepov [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Kazepov, Yuri, editor.

Series:

Research Handbooks in Urban Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban policy.

Social policy.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complexembeddedness 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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

About the cover

PART 0 THE ISSUES AT STAKE

1. Introduction to the

PART I LOCALIZING RISK AND VULNERABILITY

2. Localizing new social risks

3. Territorial welfare governance changes: concepts and explanatory factors

4. The territorial dimension of social investment in Europe

5. Urban social innovation and the European City: assessing the changing urban welfare mix and its scalar articulation

6. Citizenship practices and co-production of local social policies in Southern Europe

7. The transformation of local welfare systems in European cities

PART II THE LOCAL DIMENSION OF TARGETED SOCIAL POLICIES

8. Care as multi-scalar policy: ECEC and LTC services across Europe

9. Poverty and multi-layered social assistance in Europe

10. Institutional logics of service provision: the national and urban governance of activation policies in three European countries

11. The local dimension of housing policies

12. Migration policies at the local level: constraints and windows of opportunities in a contentious field

13. Segregation, neighbourhood effects and social mix policies

14. Local segregation patterns and multilevel education policies

PART III THE INSTRUMENTS OF LOCAL SOCIAL POLICIES

15. Local governance and street-level bureaucracy: the ground floor of social policy

16. National-regional-local shifting games in multi-tiered welfare states

17. Social work and community work

18. New public management-inspired public sector reforms and evaluation: long-term care provisions in European countries

19. Public participation and social policies in contemporary cities

20. Territorial effects of EU policies: which social outcomes at the local level?

PART IV EXAMPLES OF URBAN SOCIAL POLICIES AROUND THE WORLD.

21. Soziale Stadt (Social City)

22. The rescaling of social policies in the post-Yugoslav space: welfare parallelism and local state capture

23. States of welfare: decentralization and its consequences in US social policy

24. Urban social protection in Africa

25. Social policies and security in favelas and urban peripheries of Brazilian cities

26. Innovative (local) social policies in China

27. Urban and local social policies in the Nordic countries

28. The challenges of activation policies in Japan and their local dimension

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Kazepov, Yuri Handbook on Urban Social Policies

ISBN:

1-78811-615-1