This book reviews how local social and employment policy fields react to the European Social Fund (ESF) to determine the role of the ESF in local activation policies.
Drawing on both sociology and political science literature on welfare state reforms, Zimmermann examines what shapes local policy reactions to ESF and what effects these reactions have on change in local policy fields.
Comparing data from eighteen local case studies across six European countries, and deploying an innovative mixe.
Policy Press Local policies and the european social fund: employment policies across europe, hardcover/katharina zimmermann
