Social Policies and Public Action

AvLavinia Bifulco

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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The concept of public action is a magnifying lens for shedding light on the plurality of institutional and social actors interacting in policies. Taking into account a changing social world that is redefining the State and its instruments, it is well suited for picking out transformations that have been affecting European social policies for some twenty years or so now: the territorial reorganization of powers; the spread of a public-private mix in the provision of services; the rise of new forms of collaborative governance; the institutionalization of the European agenda on social investment.This book examines social policies as normative and cognitive devices that contribute to organizing social life and are themselves moulded and redefined by it. The perspective of public action is located where it is possible to observe how these devices come into action, the powers and interests they help mobilize and the dynamics they generate. Policies thus appear as a tangle of rather diverse processes in which the erosion of the ‘social’ coexists with the emergence of innovative forms of social organization. Public action is the key tool that helps to deal with this tangle by posing the following questions. What vocabularies, significances and practices are set in motion by the ‘social’ today? What are the resources that fuel it? What powers are deployed in it?

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-11-22
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
Antal sidor:186
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781472420886

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Lavinia Bifulco is Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca in Italy.

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‘Lavinia Bifulco presents a rich and subtle analysis of the changing fortunes of the social dimensions of Europe. She combines attention to the complex trajectories of social welfare, in their variations across place and time, with a clear grasp of the forces that have been subordinating the social to the economic.’ - John Clarke, The Open University, UK

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Introduction: Social policies and public action: What is the ‘social’?Public actionDimensions of analysis What is the ‘social’ in social policies?The structurePart I: The framework1. Concepts and issuesThe ideasThe institutionsAgency and capabilities2. What is social in Europe? A common heritageThe European social modelFacing the crisis Part II: Public action and social policies: Dynamics3. The Changing ArchitectureA scenarioInstitutional changes: New public management and governanceTerritorializationProblems and opportunities in changing public action4. The social investmentCommon but not shared perspectivesIndividualizationWhat sort of agency? Problems What sort of agency? OpportunitiesConclusions5. ParticipationThe contextA few distinctionsDimensions, questions, factorsVoice and capacity to aspireConclusions6. Public-PrivateContractualizationSocial marketPublicPublic administrationConclusionsPart III: Public action and social policies: a changing social domain7. Young school-to-work transitionsProblems and solutions The informational bases of justice: MeritBeyond employability: The Workable researchYoung people’s transitions and capacitations Conclusions8. Care and choice: The position of the recipientsFreedom of choice and its instrumentsInstruments in actionConclusions9. Inclusion and the cityThe agenda of the inclusive city in EuropeDiversity, participation, social innovationPart IV: Conclusions10. Back to the ‘social’? Individualization Between market and the self-organized communityDepoliticization Possibilities of the ‘social’ReferencesIndex

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