... citizens, who may have been subject to fewer work obligations than the insured unemployed. Governance Activation Decentralization Centralization Social assistance Europe Decentralized control Sweden The Netherlands United Kingdom The territorial dispersion of authority has in recent...

... the maxims of local autonomy and regional equality that are both formative elements of local governance within the Nordic welfare model. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Decentralized control Centralized control Social care Finland Welfare Although Nordic welfare states...

..., with the presence of Algerian and Mauritanian representatives, have not produced a final status agreement. Morocco Western Sahara Decentralized control Regional development I have […] decided to open a new page in the ongoing reforms I am spearheading. Indeed, we shall soon be launching a gradual...

... discussed and involves deconcentration because of local government's partnership role. The above definition is also similar to the one put forward by Rondinelli et al. (1983 , p. 37) who stated that decentralization is: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Decentralized control...

... Decentralized control Local government Social care Rik van Berkel is lecturer at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, and participant in the research programme Social Policy, Interventions and Solidarity of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Rik van...