Abstract Knowledge on street‐level bureaucrats as policy entrepreneurs is in its infancy.
This article contributes to this emerging field by examining three cases of successful efforts …

The recent enactment of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) has significantly
strengthened the social dimension of the European Union (EU), including the social …

Rather than being seen simply as social policy implementors, in recent decades there has
been increasing recognition of social workers as professionals with unique knowledge and …

What are the effects of fiscal imbalances, and austerity, on regional-level spending? To
answer this question, we examine an original dataset of yearly spending decisions of …

This book examines the link between constitutional asymmetry and multinationalism and the
effects asymmetry produces on legitimacy and stability in federal and quasi-federal systems …

Minimum income schemes aim at providing citizens with a minimum living standard. In some
EU countries, their regulation and provision takes place at the subnational level. This is the …

Welfare reforms introduced at national level and implying changes in service provision are
often managed by local authorities, and this fact paves the way for strong local‐central …

Addressing current socio-economic crises strains public budgets and may threaten fiscal
sustainability. Particularly in the welfare sector, where high expenditures meet poor …

In this article, I analyse solidarity between regions during times of crisis. To begin with, I
define two types of solidarity preferences. Negative solidarity means that territories will …

Housing policies have become increasingly regionalised but studies at sub-state levels are
scarce and most research still focuses on the nation-state as the unit of analysis. This paper …