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Conceptualising Local Welfare Systems: Exploring the Role of Actors and Governance Arrangements

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For a long period of time, welfare state research has focused on national welfare reforms, national social policies and national income protection schemes as its main objects of study. National welfare regime typologies and national models of welfare have also traditionally dominated the academic debate in comparative social policy. More recently, however, amplified by the global financial crisis, national governments have come under performance pressure and have tended to rely more on subnational governments for the design and delivery of welfare. As a consequence, academics have begun to place greater emphasis on the relevance and structure of local welfare systems, local welfare governance and local participatory arrangements. However, the extent to which rescaling and localisation trends empirically indicate, and theoretically justify, the introduction of a new paradigm of ‘localism’, is still a disputed matter (Evans et al. 2013).

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Johansson, H., Koch, M. (2016). Conceptualising Local Welfare Systems: Exploring the Role of Actors and Governance Arrangements. In: Johansson, H., Panican, A. (eds) Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems. Work and Welfare in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53190-2_3

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