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Reinventing Social Solidarity Across Europe
No full textAs Europe's public realms face upheaval, this is the first book to identify how social solidarity is being re-invented from below and redefined from above. Interdisciplinary transnational approaches provide new insights into the relationship between national and transnational social solidarity across Europe. Valuable to students, policy makers and scholars, it reveals social solidarity as the defining pillar of European integration, bringing a greater dimension and integrity beyond democracy across nation states
Contested Terrains and Emerging Solidarities within Child Care Law, Policy and Practice in Europe
No full textThe ‘lived’ and ‘shared learned experiences’ of children and young people across Europe most clearly define and reflect the condition and contours of the European public realm. Largely shaped by the dynamics of institutionalised social solidarity and delivered through universal education and welfare services their integration within and across European society’s pivots on a definitive balance between public and private responsibility (Lorenz, 1998; Lister 2006; Midgely, 2007). For children in care across Europe lived and learned experiences lie at the intersection of this balance simultaneously revealing how states mediate the relationship between the ‘dis-welfares’ (Gough 1979) generated by the global economy and the national ‘particularisms’ which shape the implementation of child care law, policy and practice. Within this context the crises in welfare experienced in recent decades can be regarded as a crisis in social solidarity, with a deleterious impact on the public realm across European settings (Clark, 2004, Offe 2003, Lorenz, 2001). This chapter explores contested terrains and emerging solidarities within child care law, policy and practice across Europe
Social innovation and metagovernance of welfare policies
No full textItem not available in this repository.The birth of welfare states in Europe was accompanied by the adoption of governance models typical of public planning. The crisis of welfare state and the development of welfare mix have evidenced the difficult to govern the complexity of new welfare systems. The co-presence of multiple actors with different organizational cultures and identities has drawn attention to the criticalities affecting the hierarchical approach and has given rise to the development of different forms of co-regulation involving the co-presence of approaches considered as alternatives to each other such as hierarchy, competition, and co-operation. In Europe have been developed some new governance hybrid approaches. The Scottish Community Strategic Planning is an interesting example of this social innovation of local governance practices.http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/SES2019-002005pubpub
An In-Depth Analysis of the Relationship Between Policy Making Processes, Forms of Governance and the Impact of selected Labour Market Innovations in twelve European Labour Market Settings.
Full text linkFollowing a comparative analysis of these processes and outcomes the paper offers the hypothesis that distinct forms and processes of policy-making, and multi-level governance particularly with regard to the continuing involvement of different levels of government and collaboration with key stakeholders (employers, trade unions and representatives of vulnerable groups) are associated with distinct impacts in terms of the resilience and inclusion of vulnerable groups within national and local labour markets settings. Critically, whilst distinct policy pathways may be characterised by institutional diversity, political culture or traditional policy styles and organisational structures; the central objectives underlying distinct policy pathways is also significant. For example whilst some policy pathways are found to be based largely upon the promotion of resilient and inclusive labour markets some policy pathways are forged entirely or largely within policy architectures and processes defined by largely by fiscal constraints and the broader aim to reduce public expenditure in the short and medium term. More specifically, such pathways may not seek or gain the support of stakeholders and publics through social dialogue, partnership and consensus therefore these pathways may be defined as requiring exclusive rather than inclusive decision making processes. In this paper we offer an analysis of the relationship between differentiated forms and processes of policy making as distinct policy pathways on the labour market resilience and inclusion of vulnerable groups in twelve national settings including Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Scotland, The UK, Belgium, Sweden and Slovenia
The European Social Model and an Economy of Well-being: Repairing the Social Fabric of European Societies
No full textItem not available in this repository.https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the-european-social-model-and-an-economy-of-well-being-9781800378063.htmlpubpu
Reconfiguring professional autonomy? The case of social work in the UK
No full textThe history of social work in the United Kingdom is a long and complex one, and there are no signs of it getting less complex. If the theory and practice of UK social work is of interest to an international audience it is not just because of the hegemony of the English language, but also because it has often been at the forefront of changes – for good and ill, perhaps. If there is something to learn from the UK experience it might be as much from the wrong turns and difficulties of the occupation in that divided realm, as from the advances in thinking and practice. This chapter focusses on the contemporary position of social work in the UK, and on the challenges to what is seen as a managerial-technicist version of social work (Harlow 2003). If the UK is to be seen as at the forefront of the New Public Management and of managerialist reforms in the 1980s those in other countries and contexts might seek to avoid some of the problems of an ‘early adopter’. It will be apparent here, however, that the future course of the social work occupation in the UK is by no means fully charted. At best we can point to certain possibilities and to social imaginaries that may prove to be the basis for revised forms of practice, however liminal these are. In this discussion the focus will be the degree of professional autonomy of social work as an occupational group as a feature of these possibilities. First we focus on the situation from the 1990s to the present day in which this managerial-technicist version of social work takes root and flourishes. Second we focus on three alternatives that have emerged in recent years. In doing so we do not intend to provide an indication of the likely direction of travel for UK social work, nor do we assume that these alternatives are the only ones available; we hope merely to draw attention to possible alternatives that might be worth considering and supporting.\ud
The ‘profession’ of social work in the UK can be regarded as occupying a favourable position, in that social work is a ‘protected title’ (Health and Care Professions Council 2014) and only those who have undergone graduate level education in social work, in approved courses, can describe themselves as ‘social workers’. This means that many occupational groups providing social care, who might, in other countries, be seen as social workers are not so regarded in the UK. This can be seen as a successful case of professionalization in which the occupational group comes to gain a measure of closure and construct barriers to entry, based on a distinct body of knowledge and expertise, a step that fully confirms its professional. However, a cursory glance at the literature on social work in the UK will confirm that this is not how members of the occupation or associated academic commentators construe the situation. If the development of social work in the UK has a long history of debates about the status of the occupation, as well as about the organizational structures appropriate for practice and about the knowledge that is appropriately used by practitioners, then this shows no sign of changing: social work in the UK perennially seems to be ‘at the crossroads’, to use a title of an article by Lymbery (2001). Whilst systems and structures may vary across the various countries of the UK they have all endured the challenges of a managerial-technicist reconstruction of social work within a New Public Management paradigm. However, there are many roads that could be taken from this point. The purpose of this chapter is to signpost three alternatives to the managerial-technicist form of social work that have emerged in the social work literature in recent. First, though, in the next section, we seek to clarify the context in which these ‘alternatives’ have emerged
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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