Social Innovation and Welfare State Retrenchment

Raquel Gallego Calderón is Full Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the Department of Political Science and Public Law and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain.Sheila González Motos is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Barcelona (UB), Senior Researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP) and at the Group of Globalisation Education and Social Policies (GEPS) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain.Lara Maestripieri is ‘Ramon y Cajal’ Distinguished Researcher at the Department of Political Science and Public Law and the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain.

• Section I. IntroductionChapter 1. Social and policy innovation in early childhood education and care: A comparative perspective; Raquel Gallego, Lara Maestripieri, and Sheila González Motos Chapter 2. The role of early childhood education and care in current welfare regime transformations; Lara Maestripieri, Sheila González Motos, and Raquel GallegoSection II. Early childhood education and care: Institutionalisation and social innovations in Spain and in Barcelona Chapter 3. The institutional design of early childhood education and care in Spain and its impact on equal opportunities; David Palomera, Margarita León, Lucía Martínez-Virto, Daniel Gabaldón-Estevan, and Zyab Ibáñez Chapter 4. Institutionalising social innovation in early childhood education and care in Barcelona, Spain; Lara Maestripieri and Raquel Gallego Chapter 5. Exploring the Pathways: Family Decision-Making in Choosing Institutionalised 0-3 Education and Care in Barcelona, Spain; Enric Saurí Saula and Sheila González Motos Chapter 6. Understanding families’ motivations for choosing innovative ECEC in Barcelona, Spain: Comparing social and policy innovation; Raquel Gallego and Enric Saurí Saula Section III. Social innovation in Early Childhood Education and Care from a Comparative PerspectiveChapter 7. Promises and Limits of Social Innovation in the French Childcare System; Laurent Fraisse and Francesca Petrella Chapter 8. Bottom-up cultural dynamics of social innovation in childcare for infants in Israel: A distinction mechanism and educational activism; Rakefet Sela-Sheffy, Netta Avnoon, and Revital Weil Gottshalk Chapter 9. Institutionalised social innovation: The case of Oslo, Norway; Trine Monica Myrvold and Ellen Os Chapter 10. Early Childhood Education and Care and Social Innovation in Venice, Italy: The role of regulation and resources; Maurizio Busacca, Barbara da Roit, and Pamela Pasian Chapter 11. Social innovation in early childhood education and care in England: The case of Portsmouth; Nikki Fairchild and Éva Mikuska Chapter 12. How the Japanese welfare regime incorporated Mothers' social innovations in ECEC; Kumiko Hagiwara Section IV. ConclusionsChapter 13. Comparing ECEC and social innovation across welfare regimes: Key lessons to move towards Universalisation; Sheila González Motos, Raquel Gallego, and Lara Maestripieri