ABSTRACT
This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion. A major comparative study of the fast developing theme of social exclusion, the contributors look at its causes, effects and at the ways it might be combatted. Based on in-depth, cross-national research from areas across Europe it provides a uniquely authoritative account of the complexities of policy development in the EU, and will be invaluable to researchers in European studies, politics, and economics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
Social exclusion, partnership and local governance – new problems, new policy discourses in the European Union
chapter |19 pages
Grass roots local partnerships in the Federal Republic of Germany
Instruments for social inclusion and economic integration?
chapter |18 pages
Partnership and local development in Portugal
From ‘globalised localism' to a new form of collective action
chapter |28 pages
Local partnerships and social exclusion in the United Kingdom 1
A stake in the market?
chapter |22 pages
Partnerships as networked governance?
Legitimation, innovation, problem-solving and co-ordination
chapter |22 pages
Local partnerships, welfare regimes and local governance
A process of regime restructuring?
