Local welfare policy making in European cities. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dagmar Kutsar, Marjo Kuronen, editors.
• Editors: Kutsar, Dagmar; Kuronen, Marjo
• Contents: PREFACE -- Per H Jensen -- List of Contributors -- 1. INTRODUCTION: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK -- Dagmar Kutsar and Marjo Kuronen (possibly with a contribution by Per Jensen) -- PART l -- WOMEN'S LOCAL LABOUR MARKETS -- 2. Integration of women to the local labour markets -- Nicola Schwindt and Birgit Pfau-Effinger -- 3. Urban economic specialization and female participation in the labour market -- Roberta Cucca -- 4. Female Labour Force Participation promoting Social Cohesion -- Costanzo Ranci -- PART II -- LOCAL WELFARE POLICY MAKING -- 5. Vertical governance, national regulation and autonomy of local policy making -- Marjo Kuronen -- 6. Local policymaking: the playground of ideas, mindsets, strategies and roles -- Dagmar Kutsar, Kairi Kasearu and Avo Trumm -- 7. Local Political Resistance: how local agencies ignore, defy or alter national and supranational policy agendas -- Eva Fodor and Dorottya Redai -- 8. Centralised governance shaping the local welfare policies in the city of Leeds -- Sue Yeandle and Erika Kispeter -- PART III -- LOCAL CHILD CARE POLICY MAKING AND SERVICE PROVISION -- 9. The relationship between local and national childcare policies -- Marjo Kuronen, Teppo Kröger, Roberta Cucca, Anna Escobedo Caparrós, Fernando Antón Alonso and Per H Jensen -- 10. Child care systems in post-socialist countries: comparative cases from Brno, Szekesfehervar and Tartu -- Martina Kampichler, Dorottya Redai and Dagmar Kutsar -- 11. Local childcare policies impacting the labour force participation of women in Dublin -- Evelyn Mahon -- PART IV -- LOCAL CARE POLICIES AND SYSTEMS FOR OLDER PEOPLE -- 12. Local elderly care systems in Europe -- Patricia Frericks, Ralf Och, Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Nicola Schwindt -- 13. Local policy making controversies of caring and working -- Häli Tarum and Dagmar Kutsar -- 14. Voluntary organizations and their role in the care for older people -- Per H. Jensen -- 15. CONCLUDING DISCUSSION -- Dagmar Kutsar and Marjo Kuronen.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, map
• Subjects: 361.94; Social sciences; Public welfare -- Europe; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services; Public welfare; Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy; Political economy; Quality of Life_xResearch; Social policy; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Social issues & processes; Europe; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319161631; 3319161636; 3319161628; 9783319161624
• Related ISBNs: 9783319161624
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 30, 2015).
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