Diversity and Complexity in Local Forms of Urban Anti-Poverty Strategies in Europe
Abstract
This comparative work between 13 european cities in 6 countries is an important means of understanding the phenomena of poverty and exclusion and the responses to them in different European contexts, as well as assessing the dynamics of change and the effects on the populations concerned. It also forces us to look a lot more cautiously at the classic typologies of the welfare state or of the mode of regulation of poverty, which are generally constructed on the basis of the formal and institutional characteristics of national or regional systems.