Table Of ContentHANDBOOK ON URBAN SOCIAL POLICIES
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Handbook on Urban Social Policies
International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local
Welfare
Edited by
Yuri Kazepov
Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria
Eduardo Barberis
Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Economics, Society and
Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy
Roberta Cucca
Associate Professor of Urban Sustainability Planning, Department of Urban
and Regional Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Elisabetta Mocca
Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria
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Contents
List of contributors viii
Acknowledgements xi
About the cover xii
THE ISSUES AT STAKE
1 Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Policies: International
Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare 2
Yuri Kazepov, Eduardo Barberis, Roberta Cucca and Elisabetta Mocca
PART I LOCALIZING RISK AND VULNERABILITY
2 Localizing new social risks 24
Costanzo Ranci and Lara Maestripieri
3 Territorial welfare governance changes: concepts and explanatory factors 39
Eloísa del Pino, Jorge Hernández-Moreno and Luis Moreno
4 The territorial dimension of social investment in Europe 55
Yuri Kazepov and Ruggero Cefalo
5 Urban social innovation and the European City: assessing the changing
urban welfare mix and its scalar articulation 72
Stijn Oosterlynck and Tatiana Saruis
6 Citizenship practices and co-production of local social policies in
Southern Europe 85
Ana Belén Cano-Hila, Marc Pradel-Miquel and Marisol García
7 The transformation of local welfare systems in European cities 101
Alberta Andreotti, Enzo Mingione and Emanuele Polizzi
PART II THE LOCAL DIMENSION OF TARGETED SOCIAL POLICIES
8 Care as multi-scalar policy: ECEC and LTC services across Europe 117
Marco Arlotti and Stefania Sabatinelli
9 Poverty and multi-layered social assistance in Europe 134
Sarah Marchal and Bea Cantillon
10 Institutional logics of service provision: the national and urban
governance of activation policies in three European countries 152
Vanesa Fuertes, Martin Heidenreich and Ronald McQuaid
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11 The local dimension of housing policies 170
Christoph Reinprecht
12 Migration policies at the local level: constraints and windows of
opportunities in a contentious field 187
Eduardo Barberis and Alba Angelucci
13 Segregation, neighbourhood effects and social mix policies 204
Sako Musterd
14 Local segregation patterns and multilevel education policies 219
Willem Boterman and Isabel Ramos Lobato
PART III THE INSTRUMENTS OF LOCAL SOCIAL POLICIES
15 Local governance and street-level bureaucracy: the ground floor of
social policy 235
Peter Hupe and Trui Steen
16 National-regional-local shifting games in multi-tiered welfare states 250
Giuliano Bonoli and Philipp Trein
17 Social work and community work 266
Stefan Köngeter and Christian Reutlinger
18 New public management-inspired public sector reforms and evaluation:
long-term care provisions in European countries 281
Hellmut Wollmann
19 Public participation and social policies in contemporary cities 296
Roberta Cucca
20 Territorial effects of EU policies: which social outcomes at the local level? 308
Iván Tosics and Laura Colini
PART IV EXAMPLES OF URBAN SOCIAL POLICIES AROUND THE WORLD
21 Soziale Stadt (Social City) 325
Simon Güntner
22 The rescaling of social policies in the post-Yugoslav space: welfare
parallelism and local state capture 337
Paul Stubbs and Siniša Zrinščak
23 States of welfare: decentralization and its consequences in US social policy 352
Sarah K. Bruch and Colin Gordon
24 Urban social protection in Africa 369
Jeremy Seekings
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25 Social policies and security in favelas and urban peripheries of Brazilian cities 384
Eduardo Marques and Marta Arretche
26 Innovative (local) social policies in China 399
Daniel R. Hammond
27 Urban and local social policies in the Nordic countries 414
Håkan Johansson
28 The challenges of activation policies in Japan and their local dimension 429
Miki Tsutsui and Shuhei Naka
Index 447
Contributors
Alberta Andreotti is Professor in Economic Sociology at the Department of Sociology,
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
Alba Angelucci is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economics, Society and
Politics (DESP), University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy.
Marco Arlotti is Lecturer in Economic Sociology, Department of Economics and Social
Sciences, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy.
Marta Arretche is Professor of Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP) and
researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), Brazil.
Eduardo Barberis is Associate Professor in Economic and Spatial Sociology at the
Department of Economics, Society and Politics (DESP), University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy.
Giuliano Bonoli is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Willem Boterman is Associate Professor in Urban Geographies at the Department of
Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, the
Netherlands.
Sarah K. Bruch is Associate Professor in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy
and Administration and the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University
of Delaware, USA.
Ana Belén Cano-Hila is Serra Húnter Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of
Barcelona, Spain.
Bea Cantillon is Professor of Social Policy and director of the Herman Deleeck Centre for
Social Policy at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Ruggero Cefalo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of
Vienna, Austria.
Laura Colini holds a PhD in Urban, Regional and Environmental Design and currently works
as senior policy expert on social and urban policies for the EU COM (URBACT, UIA, EU
Urban Agenda).
Roberta Cucca is Associate Professor of Urban Sustainability Planning at the Department of
Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning (ILP), Norwegian University of Life Sciences,
Norway.
Eloísa del Pino is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Public Goods and Policies in the
Spanish National Research Council (IPP-CSIC), Spain.
Vanesa Fuertes is Lecturer of Social Policy and Politics, School of Education and Social
Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, UK.
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Marisol García is Professor of Urban Sociology at the Faculty of Economics and Business,
University of Barcelona, Spain.
Colin Gordon is the F. Wendell Professor of History at the University of Iowa, USA.
Simon Güntner is Professor of Spatial Sociology at the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial
Planning, Technische Universität Wien, Austria.
Daniel R. Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Society at the School of
Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Martin Heidenreich is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Educational and Social
Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Germany.
Jorge Hernández-Moreno is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies,
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain.
Peter Hupe is Visiting Professor at the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, Belgium and
Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham,
UK.
Håkan Johansson is Professor at the School of Social Work, Lund University, Sweden.
Yuri Kazepov is Professor for International Urban Sociology and Compared Welfare Systems
at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria.
Stefan Köngeter is Professor at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and
Head of the Institute of Social Work and Social Spaces IFSAR, Switzerland.
Isabel Ramos Lobato is a postdoctoral researcher at the Helsinki Institute of Urban and
Regional Studies (Urbaria), Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Lara Maestripieri is Senior Lecturer in Economic Sociology at the Department of Architecture
and Urban Studies at the Politecnico of Milano, Italy, where she belongs to the Laboratory of
Social Policies.
Sarah Marchal is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp,
Belgium.
Eduardo Marques is Professor of Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP) and
director and researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), Brazil.
Ronald McQuaid is Professor of Work and Employment at the Stirling Management School,
University of Stirling, UK.
Enzo Mingione is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social
Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
Elisabetta Mocca is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of
Vienna, Austria.
Luis Moreno is Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences, Institute of Public Goods and Policies,
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain.
