Handbook on Social Innovation and Social Policy

Edited by Stephen Sinclair, Professor of Social Policy, Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK and Simone Baglioni, Professor of Sociology, Department of Economics and Management, University of Parma, Italy

Contents:

1 Introduction: social innovation and social policy: a critical relationship 1
Stephen Sinclair and Simone Baglioni
2 Social innovation and public policy 15
Geoff Mulgan
3 Social innovation and social policy analysis 24
Stephen Sinclair
4 Richard M. Titmuss revisited: social innovation and the crises ecosystem 38
Lars Hulgård
5 The impact of social innovation on local welfare policy: lessons from
a capability perspective 49
Lara Maestripieri and Raquel Gallego-Calderón
6 Deliberate social innovations: on policy impact and policy transfer 62
Tuur Ghys
7 Methodological resilience: researching social inclusion and social
innovation in Latin America 73
Urs Jäger, Wendelin Küpers and José Pablo Valverde
8 Paying for and providing social policies and social innovations 91
Danielle Logue
9 Social policy, social innovation and gender equality 104
Anna Domaradzka-Widła
10 Social innovation and sustainable development 120
Jürgen Howaldt, Rick Hölsgens and Christoph Kaletka
11 Social innovation and social policy in Sub-Saharan Africa 132
Gift Dafuleya
12 Social innovation in the Middle East and North Africa Region:
implications for social policy thinking and practice 144
Rana Jawad
13 Exploring interrelationships between social innovation, social policy,
and people-centred social change in India 159
Swati Banerjee, Abdul Shaban and Dipannita Bhattacharjee
14 Social policy, social innovation and health: tackling health inequalities
in the United Kingdom 173
Neil McHugh and Anna Macintyre
15 Innovating health services: the role of embedded social innovation movements 187
Benjamin Ewert
16 Social policy, social innovation and older people 199
Giovanni Fosti, Elisabetta Notarnicola and Eleonora Perobelli
17 Social innovation and migration 211
Simone Baglioni
18 Top-down funded employment integration programmes: promoting
bottom-up social innovation to empower the disadvantaged 219
Richard Hazenberg and Claire Paterson-Young
19 Social innovation and collaborative governance: the case of surplus
food redistribution 235
Benedetta De Pieri and Francesca Caló
20 Between green economy and reformism: an exploration of circular
economy and social economy policy convergence in Quebec 245
Rafael Ziegler, Eléonore Compère, Emmanuel Raufflet and Martine Vézina
21 Alternative platforms? On the dilemmas of policy and innovation in
digital infrastructure 264
Richard Pfeilstetter
22 Design thinking for social innovation 275
Victoria Ciudad-Real and Gary Painter
23 Social innovation and citizen participation: the crucial coupling 287
Peter Beresford
24 Conclusion: the future of social innovation and social policy 297
Stephen Sinclair and Simone Baglioni