TY - BOOK AU - Kutsar,Dagmar AU - Kuronen,Marjo TI - Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities SN - 9783319161631 PY - 2015/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing KW - Social sciences KW - Medical research KW - Social policy KW - Quality of life N1 - PREFACE - Per H Jensen -- List of Contributors -- 1. INTRODUCTION: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK - Dagmar Kutsar and Marjo Kuronen (possibly with a contribution by Per Jensen) -- PART l -- WOMEN'S LOCAL LABOUR MARKETS -- 2. Integration of women to the local labour markets - Nicola Schwindt and Birgit Pfau-Effinger -- 3. Urban economic specialization and female participation in the labour market - Roberta Cucca -- 4. Female Labour Force Participation promoting Social Cohesion - Costanzo Ranci -- PART II -- LOCAL WELFARE POLICY MAKING -- 5. Vertical governance, national regulation and autonomy of local policy making - Marjo Kuronen -- 6. Local policymaking: the playground of ideas, mindsets, strategies and roles - Dagmar Kutsar, Kairi Kasearu and Avo Trumm -- 7. Local Political Resistance: how local agencies ignore, defy or alter national and supranational policy agendas - Eva Fodor and Dorottya Redai -- 8. Centralised governance shaping the local welfare policies in the city of Leeds - Sue Yeandle and Erika Kispeter -- PART III -- LOCAL CHILD CARE POLICY MAKING AND SERVICE PROVISION -- 9. The relationship between local and national childcare policies - Marjo Kuronen, Teppo Kröger, Roberta Cucca, Anna Escobedo Caparrós, Fernando Antón Alonso and Per H Jensen -- 10. Child care systems in post-socialist countries: comparative cases from Brno, Szekesfehervar and Tartu - Martina Kampichler, Dorottya Redai and Dagmar Kutsar -- 11. Local childcare policies impacting the labour force participation of women in Dublin - Evelyn Mahon -- PART IV -- LOCAL CARE POLICIES AND SYSTEMS FOR OLDER PEOPLE -- 12. Local elderly care systems in Europe - Patricia Frericks, Ralf Och, Birgit Pfau-Effinger and Nicola Schwindt -- 13. Local policy making controversies of caring and working - Häli Tarum and Dagmar Kutsar -- 14. Voluntary organizations and their role in the care for older people - Per H. Jensen -- 15. CONCLUDING DISCUSSION - Dagmar Kutsar and Marjo Kuronen UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16163-1 ER -