The importance of subnational welfare measures, and their complex embeddedness in wider multilevel governance systems, has often been underplayed in both urban studies and social policy analysis. This Handbook gives readers the analytical tools to understand urban social policies in context, and bridges the gap in research.

Contents: 1 Introduction to Urban Social Policies: International Perspectives on Multilevel Governance and Local Welfare 2 Yuri Kazepov, Eduardo Barberis, Roberta Cucca and Elisabetta Mocca PART I LOCALIZING RISK AND VULNERABILITY 2 Localizing New Social Risks 24 Costanzo Ranci and Lara Maestripieri 3 Territorial Welfare Governance Changes: Concepts and Explanatory Factors 39 Eloísa del Pino, Luis Moreno and Jorge Hernández-Moreno 4 The Territorial Dimension of Social Investment in Europe 55 Yuri Kazepov and Ruggero Cefalo 5 Urban Social Innovation and the European City: Assessing the Changing Urban Welfare Mix and Its Scalar Articulation 72 Stijn Oosterlynck and Tatiana Saruis 6 Citizenship Practices and Co-Production of Local Social Policies in Southern Europe 85 Ana Belén Cano-Hila, Marc Pradel-Miquel and Marisol García 7 The Transformation of the Local Welfare System in European Cities 101 Alberta Andreotti, Enzo Mingione and Emanuele Polizzi PART II THE LOCAL DIMENSION OF TARGETED SOCIAL POLICIES 8 Care as Multi-Scalar Policy: ECEC and LTC Services across Europe 117 Marco Arlotti and Stefania Sabatinelli 9 Poverty and Multi-Layered Social Assistance in Europe 134 Sarah Marchal and Bea Cantillon 10 Institutional Logics of Service Provision: The National and Urban Governance of Activation Policies in Three European Countries 152 Vanesa Fuertes, Martin Heidenreich and Ronald McQuaid 11 The Local Dimension of Housing Policies 170 Christoph Reinprecht 12 Migration Policies at the Local Level: Constraints and Windows of Opportunities in a Contentious Field 187 Eduardo Barberis and Alba Angelucci 13 Segregation, Neighbourhood Effects and Social Mix Policies 204 Sako Musterd 14 Local segregation patterns and multilevel education policies 219 Willem Boterman and Isabel Ramos Lobato PART III THE INSTRUMENTS OF LOCAL SOCIAL POLICIES 15 Local Governance and Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Ground Floor of Social Policy 235 Peter Hupe and Trui Steen 16 National-Regional-Local Shifting Games in Multi-Tiered Welfare States 250 Giuliano Bonoli and Philipp Trein 17 Social Work and Community Work 266 Stefan Köngeter and Christian Reutlinger 18 New Public Management-Inspired Public Sector Reforms and Evaluation: Long-Term Care Provisions in European Countries 281 Hellmut Wollmann 19 Public Participation and Social Policies in Contemporary Cities 296 Roberta Cucca 20 Territorial Effects of EU Policies: Which Social Outcomes at the Local Level? 308 Iván Tosics and Laura Colini PART IV EXAMPLES OF URBAN SOCIAL POLICIES AROUND THE WORLD 21 Soziale Stadt (Social City) 325 Simon Güntner 22 The Rescaling of Social Policies in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Welfare Parallelism and Local State Capture 337 Paul Stubbs and Siniša Zrinščak 23 States of Welfare: Decentralization and Its Consequences in US Social Policy 352 Sarah K. Bruch and Colin Gordon 24 Urban Social Protection in Southern Africa 369 Jeremy Seekings 25 Social Policies and Security in Favelas and Urban Peripheries of Brazilian Cities 384 Eduardo Marques and Marta Arretche 26 Innovative (Local) Social Policies in China 399 Daniel R. Hammond 27 Urban and Local Social Policies in the Nordic Countries 415 Håkan Johansson 28 The Challenges of Activation Policies in Japan and Their Local Dimension 430 Miki Tsutsui and Shuhei Naka Index

‘Urban contexts have been major sites for the emergence of new social risks and the reconfiguration of welfare in terms of actors, governance and modes of provision. This impressive Handbook elucidates ongoing transformations, through a collection of up-to-date analyses and a path breaking dialogue between different disciplinary perspectives.’