Håkan Johansson
Professor
A move to the local? : The relevance of a local welfare system approach
Author
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