The chapter analyses local welfare governance, focusing on its ambivalence from the point of view of depoliticisation/repoliticisation dynamics. The general scenario is shaped by intertwining effects of financialisation and economic crisis in Europe: growth of vulnerability, worsening of inequality and growing social fragmentation. It is within this context that local welfare systems have to cope with increasing social problems through decreasing resources and powers, due to austerity measures and the strengthening of supranational and national control. At the same time, local welfare systems are gaining importance as fields of social innovation according to the perspective that sees cities as places of change in governance relations. After debating this mix of constraints and opportunities, we refer to an empirical study on the city of Milan in order to clarify the ambiguous relationship between social innovation, politics and the political. We argue that social innovation conceived as a redefinition of governance deeply affecting relations between the state, the market and the society means not less politics but a different politics

Bifulco, L., Dodaro, M. (2018). Local Welfare Governance and Social Innovation. The Ambivalence of the Political Dimension. In K.F. Ayda Eraydin (a cura di), Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning. Theory and Practice (pp. 169-185). Taylor and Francis [10.4324/9781351252881].

Local Welfare Governance and Social Innovation. The Ambivalence of the Political Dimension

Bifulco, L
;
DODARO, MARIA
2018

Abstract

The chapter analyses local welfare governance, focusing on its ambivalence from the point of view of depoliticisation/repoliticisation dynamics. The general scenario is shaped by intertwining effects of financialisation and economic crisis in Europe: growth of vulnerability, worsening of inequality and growing social fragmentation. It is within this context that local welfare systems have to cope with increasing social problems through decreasing resources and powers, due to austerity measures and the strengthening of supranational and national control. At the same time, local welfare systems are gaining importance as fields of social innovation according to the perspective that sees cities as places of change in governance relations. After debating this mix of constraints and opportunities, we refer to an empirical study on the city of Milan in order to clarify the ambiguous relationship between social innovation, politics and the political. We argue that social innovation conceived as a redefinition of governance deeply affecting relations between the state, the market and the society means not less politics but a different politics
Capitolo o saggio
governance, social innovation, local welfare, politics, political
English
Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning. Theory and Practice
Ayda Eraydin, Klaus Frey
2018
2018
9781351252881
Taylor and Francis
169
185
Bifulco, L., Dodaro, M. (2018). Local Welfare Governance and Social Innovation. The Ambivalence of the Political Dimension. In K.F. Ayda Eraydin (a cura di), Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning. Theory and Practice (pp. 169-185). Taylor and Francis [10.4324/9781351252881].
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