Handbook on Urban Social Policies: International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare(Research Handbooks in Urban Studies series)

The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complex embeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis. This Handbook gives readers the analytical tools to understand urban social policies in context and bridges the gap in research. It provides a novel perspective of social policy analysis, answering the common debates such as: what is the role of local institutions in welfare provisions? Do they exert an influence beyond their jurisdiction? What difference can we trace among different types of locales (e.g. urban vs. rural)? How does the role of cities change in different national regulatory systems? Chapters disentangle the interplay between jurisdictions, politics, policy instruments and contexts in the spatial construction of social policies. Thanks to the impressive selection of contributors, the volume discusses urban social policies with broad geographical coverage including cases from Europe, North America, South America and Asia, and provides cursory references to the COVID-19 pandemic in different policy fields. This book will be of interest to a broad range of students in different fields from welfare to urban studies, as well as those interested in multilevel governance and policy analysis. Scholars interested in comparative social policy, but also in social innovation, public administration and political science, will also find this book a good companion.

Table of Contents:
Contents: 1 Introduction to 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, Luis Moreno and Jorge Hernández-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 the Local Welfare System 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 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 Southern Africa 369 Jeremy Seekings 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 415 Håkan Johansson 28 The Challenges of Activation Policies in Japan and Their Local Dimension 430 Miki Tsutsui and Shuhei Naka Index

About the Author :
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 and Elisabetta Mocca, Department of Sociology and Communication, University of Salamanca, Spain

Review :
‘Urban contexts have been major sites for the emergence of new social risks and the reconfiguration of welfare in terms of actors, governance and modes of provision. This impressive Handbook elucidates ongoing transformations, through a collection of up-to-date analyses and a path breaking dialogue between different disciplinary perspectives.’ ‘The rich contributions of this book offer a complex view of the dynamics which shape local social policies, in the interaction between context specificity, diversity ad multiplicity of actors, national and international regulations. The multidisciplinary approach and its implementation on an ample range of context and time specific cases integrates and goes beyond literatures that have developed in isolation from each other, opening new avenues for research.’ ‘Emphasizing the territorial nature of social policy and the key role of cities for social inclusion, this Handbook contributes directly to the field of comparative social policy studies. Gathering excellent contributors, it is an indispensable reference volume for students of multilevel governance and local social policy.’ ‘It has long been assumed that social welfare is, and should be, a matter for the centralized nation-state. Yet, as this collection shows, the restructuring of welfare and rescaling of social, economic and political life have created both new forms of inequality and new policies to address them. Problems have been redefined, power dynamics have shifted and policy-making systems transformed to create place-specific welfare compromises. The book charts the broad trends to centralisation and decentralisation in social policies while providing contextual analysis of their varied impact in different places.’ ‘This terrific volume gives voice to leading European thinkers in conversation with peers from the U.S., Southern Africa, Brazil, China, and Japan about building on the crucial insight that social welfare policies vary as much within national systems as across them. Even in centralized systems, urban delivery practices put a strong stamp on the deployment of social policy instruments and their impact on place-based constituencies. The authors show that the centralization–decentralization dynamic is central to understanding how welfare states function and that transcending its discontents will be central to protecting the vulnerable from new social risks. The product of years of collaboration, this Handbook sets the agenda for future thinking about social policy in our precarious urban worlds.’