Participation, responsibility and choice
Subtitle: summoning the active citizen in Western European welfare states
By: edited by Janet Newman, Evelien Tonkens
Series: Care & welfare
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9789089642752
Subjects: Politics and culture; Welfare state; Social policy; Citizen participation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Janet Newman and Evelien Tonkens; title: Citizenship and healthcare in Germany : patchy activation and constrained choices / Ellen Kuhlmann; title: The embrace of responsibility : citizenship and governance of social care in the Netherlands / Evelien Tonkens; title: From social citizenship to active citizenship? : tensions between policies and practices in Finnish elderly care / Anneli Anttonen and Liisa Häikiö; title: Active citizenship in Norwegian elderly care : from activation to consumer activism / Mia Vabø; title: Mobilising the active citizen in the UK : tensions, silences and erasures / Janet Newman; title: Dividing or combining citizens : the politics of active citizenship in Italy / Ota de Leonardis; title: Just being an "active citizen"? : categorisation processes and meanings of citizenship in France / Catherine Neveu; title: Active citizenship : responsibility, choice and Participation / Janet Newman and Evelien Tonkens; title: Active citizens, activist professionals : the citizenship of new professionals / Janet Newman and Evelien Tonkens; title: Towards a feminist politics of active citizenship / Janet Newman and Evelien Tonkens.