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Members of the list may be interested in the following book recently
published by The Policy Press:
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE DYNAMICS IN EUROPE
NATIONAL AND LOCAL POVERTY REGIMES
Edited by Chiara Saraceno, Faculty of Political Sciences and Department
of Social Sciences, University of Torino, Italy
Throughout Europe, income support for poorer people has become highly
controversial. It is often assumed to be not the answer to, but the
cause of, social exclusion, and is increasingly believed to give rise to
welfare dependency. This book contributes to a more complex
understanding of welfare state regimes and welfare recipients in
contemporary Europe.
Describing social assistance 'careers' in different national and urban
contexts, it documents the strong interplay between personal
biographies and policy patterns - a particularly useful perspective
which complements the more structural, top-down approach of much
international work in social policy.
Contents: Introduction: exploring social assistance dynamics - Chiara
Saraceno; Cities as local systems - Enzo Mingione, Marco Oberti and
José Pereirinha; Income support measures for the poor in European
cities - Yves Bonny and Nicoletta Bosco; Why some people are more
likely to be on social assistance than others - Marisol Garcia and Yuri
Kazepov; Paths through (and out of) social assistance - Bjorn
Gustafsson, Rolf Müller, Nicola Negri and Wolfgang Voges;
Deconstructing the myth of welfare dependence - Chiara Saraceno.
Paperback £17.99 US$32.50 ISBN 1 86134 314 0
Hardback £45.00 US$81.00 ISBN 1 86134 315 9
320 pages
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