Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems (Hardcover)

1. A move towards the local? The relevance of a local welfare system approach; Hakan Johansson and Alexandru Panican 2. The local welfare system as a scale question; Simone Scarpa 3. Conceptualising local welfare systems: exploring the role of actors and governance arrangements; Hakan Johansson and Max Koch 4. 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 Bennett 7. Strategies against poverty in a Social democratic local welfare system: still the responsibility of public actors?; Alexandru Panican and Hakan Johansson 8. Active inclusion in a Southern European local welfare system: Combining fragmentation and public-private partnership in Turin; Franca Maino 9. Poland' active inclusion model - still in transition? The case of public agencies' tensions and emerging role of CSOs in Radom; Julia Kubisa and Justyna Zielinska 10. Worlds of active inclusion at the local level: a comparative analysis; Alexandru Panican and Anna Angelin 11. Concluding remarks: Exploring the consequences of scale and place for local active inclusion strategies;