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Giovanni Bertin, Stefano Campostrini, Introduction
Pierpaolo Donati, Beyond the Welfare State: Trajectories Towards the Relational State
(The issue; The crisis of the welfare state signals the end of an epic project and an entire historical order; The difficulties of creating a new welfare state; The scenario of the new future and how we can conceive the new society; The challenge of a "human society" endowed with a "civil welfare"; What is behind the world economy's crisis?; Should we yield to Darwinian evolution laws?; Is there an alternative to a social evolution without finalism?; Rethinking civil society and its economic foundations; Towards the 'relational welfare state'; References)
Giuseppe Moro, Defamilization in commoditized welfare
(References)
Luca Martignani, De-commodification as re-configuration: An historical and epistemic necessity for the understanding of new welfare
(A reflexive perspective beyond the pair "in cash" and "in kind"; Welfare de-commodification as a historic and epistemic necessity; How does de-commodification work? Distinctions and re-configuration logics; Working reflexively for the new welfare: enabling and restraining factors; Conclusions; References)
Giovannni Bertin, Stefano Campostrini, De-stratification, health inequality, and welfare regimes
(Welfare regimes and inequalities of health; Inequalities and health in Italian regional systems; Conclusions; References)
Ivan Harsl•f, European Policy and Social Innovation
(Introduction; Background: Pressures for European renewal; Social innovation as conceptualized by the European Commission; Examples of social policies incorporating features of social innovation; Critical perspectives on the feasibility and suitability of social innovation; Ideological tensions in the concept of social innovation; Conclusion; References)
Alex Robertson, Welfare reform, welfare rights and the hybrid nature of the British welfare state
(Social security; Health; The National Health Service; Devolution and Social Policy; Conclusions; References)
Ingo Bode, Non-profit Organisations and the Evolving German Welfare Mix: Stability and Change in the Light of a Changing International Landscap
(Introduction; The German route: A few words on history; Procurement and commissioning, liberal and corporatist style; Consensual commissioning: How did the corporatist model work during the 20th century?; Towards two worlds of state-non-profit relations: User markets and procurement in semi-corporatist Germany; Conclusion; References)
Nicoletta Pavesi, Social innovation and social work
(Introduction: the context; Innovation in social work; Towards a provisional conclusion; References)
Giovanni Bertin, Stefano Campostrini, Some Research Perspectives
(Some issues in the comparison and classification of welfare systems?; Evaluation of welfare systems; References)
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