Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies

Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies An International Multidisciplinary Series Series Editors Paul Dekker Institute for Social Research, The Hague, The Netherlands Annette Zimmer University of Münster, Münster, Germany More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6339

Taco Brandsen Sandro Cattacin Adalbert Evers Annette Zimmer Editors Social Innovations in the Urban Context

Editors Taco Brandsen Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen The Netherlands Sandro Cattacin University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland Adalbert Evers Justus-Liebig University Giessen Germany Annette Zimmer University of Münster Münster Germany ISSN 1568-2579 Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies ISBN 978-3-319-21550-1 ISBN 978-3-319-21551-8 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21551-8 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2015960892 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016. This book is published open access. Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, a link is provided to the Creative Commons license and any changes made are indicated. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the work s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in the work s Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory regulation, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt or reproduce the material. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Acknowledgements We thank Jenny Eschweiler and Rocio Nogales for their invaluable help in editing this book. v

Contents Part 1 Introduction 1 Social Innovation: A Sympathetic and Critical Interpretation... 3 Taco Brandsen, Adalbert Evers, Sandro Cattacin and Annette Zimmer Part II Urban Contexts for Local Innovations 2 Urban Governance and Social Innovations... 21 Sandro Cattacin and Annette Zimmer 3 Everybody on Board? Opportunity Structures for Social Innovations in Münster... 45 Christina Rentzsch 4 Inertia, Clearings, and Innovations in Malmö... 65 Ola Segnestam Larsson, Marie Nordfeldt and Anna Carrigan 5 Birmingham, Priority to Economics, Social Innovation at the Margins... 83 Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton 6 Social Policies and Governance in Geneva: What About Social Innovation?... 97 Patricia Naegeli 7 Milan: A City Lost in the Transition from the Growth Machine Paradigm Towards a Social Innovation Approach... 125 Giuliana Costa, Roberta Cucca and Rossana Torri 8 Poor but Sexy? Berlin as a Context for Social Innovation... 143 Benjamin Ewert vii

viii Contents Part III Local Social Innovations 9 Social Innovations as Messages: Democratic Experimentation in Local Welfare Systems... 161 Adalbert Evers and Taco Brandsen 10 Warsaw: Paving New Ways for Participation of Mothers, Fathers, and Children in Local Public and Social Life The MaMa Foundation... 181 Renata Siemieńska, Anna Domaradzka and Ilona Matysiak 11 Zagreb: Parents in Action Innovative Ways of Support and Policies for Children, Women and Families... 189 Gojko Bežovan, Jelena Matančević and Danijel Baturina 12 Amsterdam: Neighbourhood Stores for Education, Research, and Talent Development The BOOT Project... 199 Francesca Broersma, Taco Brandsen and Joost Fledderus 13 Lille Metropolis: Co-production of Housing in a Major Urban Renewal District... 205 Laurent Fraisse 14 Pamplona: Neighbourhood Children Services A Grassroots and Local Council Initiative... 213 Manuel Aguilar Hendrickson and Marta Llobet Estany 15 Berlin: Kreuzberg Acts Entrepreneurship in the District... 219 Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers 16 Milan: We Help You to Help Yourself The Project of the Fondazione Welfare Ambrosiano... 227 Stefania Sabatinelli and Giuliana Costa 17 Stockholm: Innovative Ways of Supporting Children of Single (Lone) Mothers... 235 Marie Nordfeldt, Ola Segnestam Larsson and Anna Carrigan 18 Nijmegen: Work Corporations for the Unemployed, by the Unemployed... 243 Joost Fledderus, Taco Brandsen and Francesca Broersma 19 Birmingham: The Youth Employment and Enterprise Rehearsal Project... 251 Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton

Contents ix 20 Birmingham: A Locality Approach to Combating Worklessness... 257 Nadia Brookes, Jeremy Kendall and Lavinia Mitton 21 Münster: How Prevention Visits Improve Local Child Protection... 265 Andrea Walter and Danielle Gluns 22 Barcelona: A Citizen s Agreement for an Inclusive City... 273 Teresa Montagut, Gemma Vilà and Sebastià Riutort 23 Bern: Integration Guidelines... 281 Maxime Felder Part IV Conclusions 24 The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation Research: Embracing the Dark Side... 293 Ola Segnestam Larsson and Taco Brandsen 25 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Social Innovation... 303 Taco Brandsen, Adalbert Evers, Sandro Cattacin and Annette Zimmer Index... 311

Contributors Danijel Baturina Institute for Social Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Gojko Bežovan Institute for Social Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Taco Brandsen Department of Political Science & Public Administration, Institute of Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Francesca Broersma Amsterdam, Netherlands Nadia Brookes Personal Social Services Research Unit, Cornwallis Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK Anna Carrigan Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden Sandro Cattacin Department of Sociology, University of Geneva, Genève, Switzerland Giuliana Costa DASTU-Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Roberta Cucca Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Anna Domaradzka Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland Marta Llobet Estany Department of Social Work and Social Services, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Adalbert Evers Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Benjamin Ewert Heidelberg School of Education, Heidelberg, Germany Maxime Felder Department of Sociology, University of Geneva, Genève, Switzerland xi

xii Contributors Joost Fledderus Department of Political Science & Public Administration, Institute of Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Laurent Fraisse Paris, France Danielle Gluns Institute for Political Science, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany Manuel Aguilar Hendrickson Department of Social Work and Social Services, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Jeremy Kendall School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, Cornwallis Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK Jelena Matančević Institute for Social Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Ilona Matysiak Katedra Socjologii Zmiany Społecznej, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii, Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej, Warszawa, Poland Lavinia Mitton School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, Cornwallis Building, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK Teresa Montagut Department of Sociological Theory, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Patricia Naegeli Chêne-Bourg, Switzerland Marie Nordfeldt Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden Christina Rentzsch Institute of Political Science, Westfälische Wilhelms- Universität Münster, Münster, Germany Sebastià Riutort Department of Sociological Theory, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Stefania Sabatinelli DASTU-Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Ola Segnestam Larsson Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden Renata Siemieńska Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland Rossana Torri DASTU-Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Gemma Vilà Department of Sociological Theory, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Andrea Walter Institute of Political Science, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany Annette Zimmer Institute of Political Science, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

About the Editors Taco Brandsen is a professor of comparative public administration at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; secretary-general of EAPAA (European Association of Public Administration Accreditation); coordinator of the project WILCO (2010 2013, Welfare Innovations at the Local Level, 7th European Framework Programme.); a member of the LIPSE project (2013 2016, Learning from Innovation in Public Sector Environments, 7th European Framework Programme). Sandro Cattacin studied economic history, political science and political philosophy at the University of Zurich (1982 1987). With an Italian fellowship, he then participated in the PhD programme in political and social science at the European University Institute in Florence (1987 1990), where he obtained his PhD in 1992. Adalbert Evers is a professor for comparative health and social policy at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Germany), (Emeritus since October 2013). He holds a doctoral degree in political science from the University of Bremen and did his habilitation at the University of Frankfurt. Annette Zimmer is a professor of social policy and comparative politics at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Münster, Germany. She holds a doctoral degree in political science from the University of Heidelberg and a lecturer degree in political science from the University of Kassel, Germany. xiii