Combating Poverty in Europe

Edited by Rune Halvorsen, Associate Professor and Bjørn Hvinden, formerly Professor, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

• Contents:PART I BACKGROUND1. Introduction: How to Achieve Active Inclusion in a Multi-layered Political Context? Rune Halvorsen and Bjørn Hvinden 2. Who is Poor? Linking Perceptions of Poor People and Political Responses to Poverty Bjørn Hvinden and Rune Halvorsen 3. Poverty and Social Exclusion as Challenge for Active Inclusion – The Spatial DimensionElisabeth Ugreninov and Dorethee Spannagel4. Poverty and Social Inclusion as Emerging Policy Arenas in the EUMaurizio Ferrera and Matteo JessoulaPART II A MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM AS SEEN FROM THE NATIONAL ANGLE 5. Institutional Arrangements and Policy Coordination in National Anti-poverty Regimes Daniel Clegg6. Have Governments Designed Provisions for Lone Mothers, Long-term Unemployed and Working Poor to be Multidimensional and Integrated? Anna Angelin, Hayley Bennett and Marianna Zieleńska7. Killing, Domesticating or Feeding the Snake: The Implementation of the Europe 2020 Anti-poverty Component at the National LevelMatteo JessoulaPART III A MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM AS SEEN FROM SUBNATIONAL ANGLES8. Approaches, Actors and Models of Vertical Collaborative Governance Arrangements in Combating Poverty - Five European Cities Compared Max Koch and Alexandru Panican9. Mixing Multi-level and Network Governance: How do Local Actors Relate to the Policies, Steering Mechanisms and Resources of Higher-level Actors?Håkan Johansson and Franca Maino10. The Perspectives of Lone Mothers, Long-term Unemployed and Working Poor People on Provisions for Active Inclusion Wiesława Kozek and Julia KubisaPART IV CONCLUSION11. An Emerging Multilevel System of Active Inclusion in Europe?Bjørn Hvinden and Rune Halvorsen Index

‘The book provides a valuable contribution to the analysis of anti-poverty measures and is inevitable reading for all those who are studying the phenomenon of poverty in the 21st century.’