WP16 Responsible

[RUC-1] - Roskilde University, Department of Social Sciences (Roskilde)

WP16 Responsible for Spread of Excellence

[RUC-1] - Roskilde University, Department of Social Sciences (Roskilde)

WP16 Objectives

To focus on some of the important issues understanding the relationship between civil society and welfare state:

1. The recent international controversy on civil society, citizenship and welfare institutions and its actual development in the involved countries will be reviewed.
2. What kinds of "phenomena" are regarded as belonging to the civil society in the different types of European welfare system?
3. How the changing balance between welfare state and civil society is influencing the position of civic institutions, the definition of citizenship and its role in the social processes of integration and differentiation in the EU societies.

WP16 Description of Work

Based on data gathered by the Johns Hopkins Comparative Non-profit Sector Project we want to discuss the importance of volunteering and giving for active participation and social inclusion. The relationship between volunteering, civic participation and social inclusion has a different pattern in the individual European countries depending of which welfare state system we are talking about and the concrete political and social relation characterising the welfare state-civil society interface.

WP16 Participants

• [RUC-1] - Roskilde University, Department of Social Sciences (Roskilde)
• [ISF-29] - Institute for Social Research (Oslo)
• [EFI-37] - Stockholm School of Economics (Stockholm)
• [ESUC-39] - Ersta Sköndal University College (Sköndal)

WP16 Documents

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