Aim
The aim of this task was to assemble and compare knowledge on the regulatory trajectories, the institutional geometries and the organisational configurations in the funding, planning, production and delivery of social services, as they resulted from the restructuring of welfare systems over the last thirty years in the different nations/regions participating to the Action.
The regulatory trajectories referred to the evolution of the legislative frameworks regulating social services; the institutional geometries referred to the division of responsibility between the national, the regional and/or the local government levels; the organisational configurations referred to the division of labour between the state, the market, the third sector and the family. Particular attention was given to differences in ‘welfare traditions’ and path-dependency in explaining ‘place’ specificities.
This Task set the context to carry out the subsequent Task 2/WG2.
Responsibility and Activities
This task was carried out by Working Group 1, coordinated by a WG1 Leader, and involved the following activities:
WG1 Leader |
Blanca DEUSDAD - Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona (ES) |
WG1 Co-Leaders |
Einar ÖVERBYE - Oslo and Akershus University – (NO) |
Participant Parties/institutions |
AUSTRIA: Linz BELGIUM: Antwerp HUNGARY: Budapest FINLAND: Jyväskylä and Tampere GREECE: Athens ICELAND: Reykjavík ITALY: Reggio Calabria and Milano MACEDONIA MALTA: Msida NORWAY: Oslo PORTUGAL: Porto ROMANIA: Galati SPAIN: Tarragona, Barcelona, Valencia SWEDEN: Lund and Stockholm SWITZERLAND: Bern UNITED KINGDOM: London, Leeds |
A ‘template’ was prepared and circulated for the presentation of national/regional profiles at the WG1 Oslo Workshop.