Putting People First: a shared vision and commitment to the transformation of Adult Social Care

New Risks, New Welfare: The Transformation of the European Welfare State. Edited by Peter Taylor-Gooby. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 264p. 35.00 paper.The comparative welfare state literature has taken some important turns in the past decades, moving first from a focus on the causes of its growth to studies of retrenchment. Lately, scholarship has become more preoccupied with welfare state adaptation to the new risk and needs structure. This book falls squarely in the latter camp and includes European scholars, such as Bruno Palier, Guiliano Bonoli, and Peter Taylor-Gooby, who have been exploring this theme for some years now.

New Risks, New Welfare: The Transformation of the European Welfare State

Realist social theory

New Risks, New Welfare

When a large proportion of the population has problems findingschools in which the levels of education and teacher quality are equivalentto those guaranteed in larger urban centres, hospitals capable ofguaranteeing essential health services (first aid; emergency; birthing;transfusions) or adequate internal and external mobility systems, thequestion of constitutionality and right to full citizenship constituents ariseon one hand; while on the other, a vicious circle of marginality is triggered,in which demographic haemorrhage follows a process of continualreduction of these services, precluding the usefulness of any sort ofdevelopment intervention. Starting from this assumption, the public policyNational Strategy for Inner Areas works to guarantee the inner citizenshiprights as a pre-condition to foster economic development. The articleillustrates the welfare question in the Italian inner peripheries, analyzing thetheory and methods of intervention of the public policy.

A place-based perspective for welfare recalibration in the Italian inner peripheries: the case of the Italian strategy for inner areas

Across Europe, and particularly since the 2008 Financial Crisis, new demands for tailor-made services came from different actors and perspectives: user-led organizations, intellectuals, policy make...

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Matteo Orlandini

Papers

The morphogenesis of disability policies and the personalisation of social services. A case study from Italy

Social Investment in Times of Crisis: A Quiet Revolution or a Shaken Welfare Capitalism?

Personalizzazione vs individualizzazione dei servizi di welfare : fasi, attori e governance di una semantica emergente