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Håkan Johansson.

Håkan Johansson

Professor

Håkan Johansson.

A move to the local? : The relevance of a local welfare system approach

Author

  • Håkan Johansson
  • Alexandru Panican

Editor

  • Håkan Johansson
  • Alexandru Panican

Summary, in English

Fighting poverty and promoting active inclusion is a major challenge for most European welfare states. This chapter argues that much current welfare research has focused on national policies and systems despite most anti-poverty strategies are put into practice at local level. The chapter explores the local welfare system approach and maintains that it is important to study the role public and civil society actors play and local strategies against poverty, what welfare governance arrangements that prevail in contacts between them and how local welfare systems are connected to higher levels of steering and regulation. The chapter reviews existing research on welfare and social assistance regimes and presents the five local cases to be studied in the volume.

Department/s

  • School of Social Work

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

1-29

Publication/Series

Work and Welfare in Europe

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

  • Social Work

Keywords

  • poverty
  • active inclusion
  • loca level
  • governance arrangements
  • local welfare systems
  • social assitance

Status

Published

Project

  • Lund Human Rights Research Hub

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-1-137-53190-2
  • ISBN: 978-1-137-53189-6