Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities

PREFACE - Per H Jensen.- List of Contributors .- 1. INTRODUCTION: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK - Dagmar Kutsar and Marjo Kuronen (possibly with a contribution by Per Jensen).- PART l.- WOMEN'S LOCAL LABOUR MARKETS.- 2. Integration of women to the local labour markets - Nicola Schwindt and Birgit Pfau-Effinger.- 3. Urban economic specialization and female participation in the labour market - Roberta Cucca.- 4. Female Labour Force Participation promoting Social Cohesion - Costanzo Ranci.- PART II.- LOCAL WELFARE POLICY MAKING.- 5. Vertical governance, national regulation and autonomy of local policy making - Marjo Kuronen.- 6. Local policymaking: the playground of ideas, mindsets, strategies and roles - Dagmar Kutsar, Kairi Kasearu and Avo Trumm.- 7. Local Political Resistance: how local agencies ignore, defy or alter national and supranational policy agendas - Eva Fodor and Dorottya Redai.- 8. Centralised governance shaping the local welfare policies in the city of Leeds - Sue Yeandle and Erika Kispeter.- PART III.- LOCAL CHILD CARE POLICY MAKING AND SERVICE PROVISION.- 9. The relationship between local and national childcare policies - Marjo Kuronen, Teppo Kröger, Roberta Cucca, Anna Escobedo Caparrós, Fernando Antón Alonso and Per H Jensen.- 10. Child care systems in post-socialist countries: comparative cases from Brno, Szekesfehervar and Tartu - Martina Kampichler, Dorottya Redai and Dagmar Kutsar.- 11. Local childcare policies impacting the labour force participation of women in Dublin - Evelyn Mahon.- PART IV.- LOCAL CARE POLICIES AND SYSTEMS FOR OLDER PEOPLE.- 12. Local elderly care systems in Europe - Patricia Frericks, Ralf Och, Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Nicola Schwindt.- 13. Local policy making controversies of caring and working - Häli Tarum and Dagmar Kutsar.- 14. Voluntary organizations and their role in the care for older people - Per H. Jensen.- 15. CONCLUDING DISCUSSION - Dagmar Kutsar and Marjo Kuronen.