Local Partnerships and Social Exclusion in the European Union
This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion. In both the UK and the EU, these are amongst the most pressing problems confronting politicians and policy makers today; and partnership is widely identified as an essential element in any solution. From the UK governments National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal to the European Commissions strategy for managing social and economic disparity and issues such as immigration, partnerships are central to the policy response.
However, although partnership is a term now pivotal to the policy discourses and practices of the EU and some member states, it is still an anomaly in other places. Furthermore, partnership and exclusion are contested concepts with a range of meanings and policy implications. Local Partnerships and Social Exclusion in the European Union traces the evolution of this complex and rapidly developing sphere of public policy, exploring its different contents and the ways they are being shaped by European, national and local influences.
This book is a major comparative study of the key contemporary theme of social exclusion, and looks at its causes, effects and at the ways it might be combated through both national and supra-national measures. Based on in depth, cross national research, it spans Scandinavian to Iberian countries; from Ireland to the UK to France and Germany. 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 as well as to professionals in public policy, social policy and urban and regional planning.
Mike Geddes is Principal Research Fellow and Research Manager in the Local Government Centre, University of Warwick. His previous publications include Partnership against Social Exclusion? Local Regeneration Strategies and Excluded Communities.
John Benington is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the University of Warwick, and Director of the Local Government Centre since its inception in 1988. He has published widely, including coediting Restructuring the Local Economy, and coauthoring Changing Europe, and Urban Poverty, The Economy and Public Policy. He has acted as adviser to government ministers, senior policy makers and managers in the UK, EU and Africa. He is currently leading the development of a new Institute of Governance and Public Management at the University of Warwick.
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Local Partnerships and Social Exclusion in the European Union
New forms of local social governance?
Edited by Mike Geddes and John Benington
First published 2001
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Local partnerships and social exclusion in the European Union: new forms of local social governance?/edited by Mike Geddes and John Benington.
p. cm. (Routledge studies in governance and public policy; 5)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Marginality, Social European Union countries. 2. European Union countries Social policy. 3. Economic assistance, Domestic European Union countries. 4. Poverty European Union countries. 5. Local government European Union countries. 6. Public-private sector cooperation European Union countries. I. Geddes, Mike, 1943II. Benington, John. III. Series.
HN380.Z9L63 2001
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Contents
JOHN BENINGTON AND MIKE GEDDES
MIKE GEDDES AND JOHN BENINGTON
MIKKO KAUTTO AND MATTI HEIKKIL
PATRICK LE GALS AND PATRICIA LONCLE-MORICEAU
KARL BIRKHLZER AND GNTHER LORENZ
JIM WALSH
FERNANDA RODRIGUES AND STEPHEN R STOER
JORDI ESTIVILL
MIKE GEDDES
JOHN BENINGTON
MIKE GEDDES AND PATRICK LE GALS
Karl Birkhlzer is Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Group, Local Economy, at the Technical University of Berlin. He is co-founder of the European Network for Economic Self-Help and Local Development.
Jordi Estivill is Director of the Gabinet dEstudis Socials, a social research agency, and Professor at the University School of Social Work of Barcelona. He is author of numerous publications and research studies on European social policy and social economy.
Patrick Le Gals is CNRS senior research fellow at CEVIPOF (Sciences Po Paris). He is associate professor of politics and sociology at Sciences Po Paris. He has published Politique urbaine et dveloppement local, Paris, LHarmattan, 1993; Les rseaux de politique publique, Paris, LHarmattan, 1995 (with M Thatcher); Regions in Europe, the Paradox of Power, Routledge, 1998 (with C Lequesne); Cities in Contemporary Europe, 2000, Cambridge University Press (with A Bagnasco); and The Governance of Local Economies in Europe (with C Crouch, C Trigilia and H Voeltzkow), Oxford University Press, 2001. He is the editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Matti Heikkil is a Research Professor at the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES) in Helsinki, Finland. His principal research interests are poverty, deprivation and the welfare state.
Mikko Kautto is a Researcher at the National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health (STAKES) in Helsinki, Finland. His research interest is in comparative welfare state research. He recently authored a comparison of welfare state adaptation in Finland and Sweden during the 1990s. He is one of the editors of
