Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems

1. A move towards the local? The relevance of a local welfare system approach; Håkan Johansson and Alexandru Panican 2. The local welfare system as a scale question; Simone Scarpa3. Conceptualising local welfare systems: exploring the role of actors and governance arrangements; Håkan Johansson and Max Koch4. 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 Bennett7. Strategies against poverty in a Social democratic local welfare system: still the responsibility of public actors?; Alexandru Panican and Håkan Johansson 8. Active inclusion in a Southern European local welfare system: Combining fragmentation and public–private partnership in Turin; Franca Maino9. Poland’ active inclusion model - still in transition? The case of public agencies’ tensions and emerging role of CSOs in Radom; Julia Kubisa and Justyna Zielińska10. Worlds of active inclusion at the local level: a comparative analysis; Alexandru Panican and Anna Angelin11. Concluding remarks: Exploring the consequences of scale and place for local active inclusion strategies;