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This chapter explores factors that structure local welfare systems. We argue that local welfare systems draw on unique cultural, social and economic resources and mobilise actors that provide a unique feature to that particular system of welfare, yet within their respective welfare state regime context. ‘Local welfare’ cannot be reduced to the efforts by public agencies and we need to take a broader view on the resources and actors mobilised at local level. We furthermore find that local welfare systems and local welfare actors are not bound to the local level, but participants in complex multi-scalar interactions that include elements of transfer and translation of national and European policies and programmes. The chapter proposes an analytical model for the study of local welfare systems and puts forward a set of propositions on how to construct better coordinated anti-poverty strategies in a European context.
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Johansson, H., Hvinden, B. (2016). Concluding Remarks: Exploring the Consequences of Scale and Place for Local Active Inclusion Strategies. In: Johansson, H., Panican, A. (eds) Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems. Work and Welfare in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53190-2_11
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