Rescaling Social Policies towards Multilevel Governance in Europe

Name: Rescaling Social Policies towards Multilevel Governance in Europe
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Offers an assessment of the workings of multi-level governance in terms of social welfare policy across different clusters of European states - Nordic, Southern European, Central and East European. This book highlights comparative transversal and transnational issues of multi-level governance in social welfare policies. > The workings of multi-level governance -- institutional choices concerning centralisation, decentralisation and subsidiarity -- are widely debated within European public policy, but few systematic studies assessing the effects of changing divisions of power for policy-making have been carried out. This volume offers an assessment of the workings of multi-level governance in terms of social welfare policy across different clusters of European states -- Nordic, Southern European, Central and East European.\nThis book reports on a major comparative study at the European Centre for Social Welfare policy and Research, which included partners from univerisities in Finl.