Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems

Håkan Johansson is Professor in Social Work at Lund University, Sweden.Alexandru Panican is Associate Professor in Social Work at Lund University, Sweden.

“In this fascinating book, Johansson and Panican, together with ten prominent scholars of social policy, social work, sociology, urban studies and political science, provide a multi-disciplinary review and analysis of how, in the last two decades, welfare systems and welfare provision have become more and more local, as opposed to national – that is to say, local authorities are seen as responsible for the planning and provision of welfare services.” (Avner De Shalit, Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 48 (1), January, 2019)

• 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 Scarpa3. Conceptualising local welfare systems: exploring the role of actors and governance arrangements; Håkan Johansson and Max Koch4. 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 Bennett7. 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 Maino9. Poland’ active inclusion model - still in transition? The case of public agencies’ tensions and emerging role of CSOs in Radom; Julia Kubisa and Justyna Zielińska10. Worlds of active inclusion at the local level: a comparative analysis; Alexandru Panican and Anna Angelin11. Concluding remarks: Exploring the consequences of scale and place for local active inclusion strategies;