Mike Geddes is Principal Research Fellow and Research Manager in the Local Government Centre, University of Warwick. His previous publications include Partnership against Social Exclusion? Local Regeneration Strategies and Excluded Communities., John Benington is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the University of Warwick, and Director of the Local Government Centre since its inception in 1988. He has published widely, including coediting Restructuring the Local Economy, and coauthoring Changing Europe, and Urban Poverty, The Economy and Public Policy. He has acted as adviser to government ministers, senior policy makers and managers in the UK, EU and Africa. He is currently leading the development of a new Institute of Governance and Public Management at the University of Warwick.

• Chapter 1 Introduction, John Benington, Mike Geddes; Chapter 2 Social exclusion and Part nership in the European Union, Mike Geddes, John Benington; Chapter 3 Part nerships against exclusion in a Nordic welfare state, Mikko Kautto, Matti Heikkila; Chapter 4 Local Part nerships and social exclusion in France, Patrick Le Galès, Patricia Loncle-Moriceau; Chapter 5 Grass roots local Part nerships in the Federal Republic of Germany, Karl Birkhölzer, Günther Lorenz; Chapter 6 Catalysts for change, Jim Walsh; Chapter 7 Part nership and local development in Portugal, Fernanda Rodrigues, Stephen R Stoer; Chapter 8 A new approach to Part nership, Jordi Estivill; Chapter 9 Local Part nerships and social exclusion in the United Kingdom1This Chapter draws on Geddes (1996) The role of Part nerships in promoting social cohesion: Research Report for the United Kingdom, Working Paper WP/96/29/EN, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin., Mike Geddes; Chapter 10 Part nerships as networked governance?, John Benington; Chapter 11 Local Part nerships, welfare regimes and local governance, Mike Geddes, Patrick Le Galès;