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The Local Welfare System as a Scale Question

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Combating Poverty in Local Welfare Systems

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This chapter presents a theoretical framework for the simultaneous analysis of the ‘scales’, ‘territories’ and ‘places’ of welfare states. The proposed theoretical framework can be applied for examining, in a comparative manner, the ways in which these three spatial dimensions intersect with one another in local welfare systems and aims at avoiding the one-dimensionalism that has been the pitfall of previous studies on the same topic. The chapter furthermore outlines a spatially sensitive periodisation of welfare state development, which focuses on the historical evolution of central–local government relationships in three subsequent stages of welfare state development.

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    Simone Scarpa

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  1. School of Social Work, Lund University School of Social Work, Lund, Sweden

    Håkan Johansson

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    Alexandru Panican

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Scarpa, S. (2016). The Local Welfare System as a Scale Question. 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_2

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