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Social Services Disrupted
Changes, Challenges and Policy Implications for Europe in Times of Austerity
Edited by Flavia Martinelli, Anneli Anttonen and Margitta Mätzke
This book revives the discussion on public social services and their redesign, with a focus on
services relating to care and the social inclusion of vulnerable groups, providing rich information
on the changes that occurred in the organisation and supply of public social services over the last
thirty years in different European places and service fields. Despite the persisting variety in
social service models, three shared trends emerge: public sector disengagement, ‘vertical
re-scaling’ of authority and ‘horizontal re-mix’ in the supply system. The consequences of such
changes are evaluated from different perspectives – governance, social and territorial cohesion,
labour market, gender – and are eventually deemed ‘disruptive’ in both economic and social terms.
The policy implications of the restructuring are also explored. This title will be Open Access on
Elgaronline.com.
Monograph Book
- Published in print:
- 24 Nov 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781786432100
- eISBN:
- 9781786432117
- Pages:
- 448
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- Social Services Disrupted
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Social services, welfare states and places: an overview
- Chapter 2: The European Union policy framework for social services: agendas, regulations and discourses
- Chapter 3: Public policy conceptions: priorities of social service provision in Europe
- Chapter 4: Social services in post-industrial Europe: an incomplete success story and its tragic moments
- Chapter 5: The vertical division of responsibility for social services within and beyond the State: issues in empowerment, participation and territorial cohesion
- Chapter 6: The horizontal ‘re-mix’ in social care: trends and implications for service provision
- Chapter 7: The ‘activation turn’ and the new horizontal division of labour at the local level: the case of social assistance services in Austria, Belgium, Norway and Switzerland
- Chapter 8: Care in the wake of the financial crisis: gender implications in Spain and the United Kingdom
- Chapter 9: Care for older people in early twenty-first-century Europe: dimensions and directions of change
- Chapter 10: How marketisation is changing the Nordic model of care for older people
- Chapter 11: The de-institutionalisation of care for older people in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: national strategies and local outcomes
- Chapter 12: Care for older people in three Mediterranean countries: discourses, policies and realities of de-institutionalisation
- Chapter 13: The Janus face of social innovation in local welfare initiatives
- Chapter 14: Social innovation in the field of Roma inclusion in Hungary and Austria: lessons to foster social cohesion from Thara and Tanodas
- Chapter 15: The social inclusion of immigrants in the United Kingdom and Italy: different but converging trajectories?
- Chapter 16: Housing and neighbourhood: basic needs, governance and social innovation
- Chapter 17: Challenges and dilemmas in the provision of social services
- Chapter 18: The role of the state in the development of social services
- Chapter 19: Social services disrupted: changing supply landscapes, impacts and policy options
- Index
Contents
Monograph Chapter
- Published:
- 24 November 2017
- Category:
- Monograph Chapter
- Pages:
- v–viii (4 total)
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2017
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- Social Services Disrupted
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures and tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Social services, welfare states and places: an overview
- Chapter 2: The European Union policy framework for social services: agendas, regulations and discourses
- Chapter 3: Public policy conceptions: priorities of social service provision in Europe
- Chapter 4: Social services in post-industrial Europe: an incomplete success story and its tragic moments
- Chapter 5: The vertical division of responsibility for social services within and beyond the State: issues in empowerment, participation and territorial cohesion
- Chapter 6: The horizontal ‘re-mix’ in social care: trends and implications for service provision
- Chapter 7: The ‘activation turn’ and the new horizontal division of labour at the local level: the case of social assistance services in Austria, Belgium, Norway and Switzerland
- Chapter 8: Care in the wake of the financial crisis: gender implications in Spain and the United Kingdom
- Chapter 9: Care for older people in early twenty-first-century Europe: dimensions and directions of change
- Chapter 10: How marketisation is changing the Nordic model of care for older people
- Chapter 11: The de-institutionalisation of care for older people in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: national strategies and local outcomes
- Chapter 12: Care for older people in three Mediterranean countries: discourses, policies and realities of de-institutionalisation
- Chapter 13: The Janus face of social innovation in local welfare initiatives
- Chapter 14: Social innovation in the field of Roma inclusion in Hungary and Austria: lessons to foster social cohesion from Thara and Tanodas
- Chapter 15: The social inclusion of immigrants in the United Kingdom and Italy: different but converging trajectories?
- Chapter 16: Housing and neighbourhood: basic needs, governance and social innovation
- Chapter 17: Challenges and dilemmas in the provision of social services
- Chapter 18: The role of the state in the development of social services
- Chapter 19: Social services disrupted: changing supply landscapes, impacts and policy options
- Index