Stefania Sabatinelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 4221779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefania Sabatinelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefania |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabatinelli |
| SIGNATURE | SABATINELLI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Politecnico di Milano |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Planning and designing universal access to social services. A pioneering local program on welfare spaces in Italy
The combined effect of socio-economic and demographic changes exerts pressure on the welfare systems and makes it more urgent to provide appropriate answers to increasing and diversifying needs with scanter resources. Local social services are strongly committed to such challenges. The physical features of the spaces of welfare, often neglected both by research and by implementation, play a fundamental role in the attempt to innovate and extend a…
The Spaces of Social Services as Social Infrastructure
The spatial organisation of social services has long been residual for both urban planning and social welfare policies in Italian cities. This often results in randomly chosen locations and poor design arrangements, which ignore the role that space might play in fostering social life and inclusion. The scarce relevance given to the topic both in research and implementation is connected to the historical evolution of social services in the country…
Innovating local housing policies in a country of homeowners. Insights from an Italian affluent medium-sized city
Cities face increasing housing needs, particularly in Southern European countries, as well as tightening constraints on public expenditure. The mismatch between income levels and housing costs has come to concern a larger and more diversified share of the population so that housing needs strike beyond the poorest and most underprivileged profiles. This article discusses the outcomes of fieldwork conducted in San Donato Milanese, a medium-sized, a…
Explaining subnational variations in early childhood education and care. A fuzzy‐set analysis of the Italian case
Although cross‐country differences in the development of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services have been widely researched, the pronounced subnational variation that characterizes many countries is little researched. This article aims to contribute filling this gap by investigating the factors underlying ECEC development in Italian regions, where take‐up rates of public and subsidized daycare centers, behind a national average of 12%…
Tensions between quantity and quality in social investment agendas
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) has become a strategic component of the Social Investment (SI) paradigm. Growth in this field of social policy – quantified as an increase in public spending and coverage rates – is often taken as indicative of a wider attempt to reformulate welfare state intervention through an SI approach. However, SI agendas have produced differentiated impacts in different contexts. In scenarios of budget restraints, …
Activation and Rescaling
This chapter focuses on the implications of the activation paradigm in social assistance and labour market policies. Economic crisis and recession periods have historically been path-breaking moments bringing social and labour market policies into public debate, followed by varying degrees of reform implementation in practice. The chapter highlights some of the main driving forces that, with different timing and to different extents, triggered tw…
Assessing income support where no national minimum income scheme exists. Is it possible to apply the model family method to the Italian case
This article focuses on the application of a specific comparative methodology, the model family method (MFM), in measuring the income derived from minimum income schemes. The application of the MFM to the analysis of this policy field shows several criticalities such as the difficulty to analyze countries in which no national scheme exists, and in which both the intra-national variations and the discretionary power of street-level bureaucrats are…
Happy ever after in the quasi-market place? The dowry logic of active labour policy in the Lombardy Region
Purpose – The dote system is the most recent and only way to finance and deliver services in the training and labour policy field in Lombardy (Italy), strengthening the regional quasi-market approach. The purpose of this paper is to analyse its logic and highlight the implications for the policy system. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative case-study including preliminary documentation, analysis of administrative data, in-depth interviews wi…
Social Vulnerability in European Cities
New Social Risks and the Role of Local Welfare
Historically, European cities have been characterized by a strong link between economic competitiveness and social cohesion. This association is one of the most relevant peculiarities of European cities as compared to cities in other continents. According to many urban scholars
Nothing on the Move or Just Going Private? Understanding the Freeze on Child- and Eldercare Policies and the Development of Care Markets in Italy
Since the 1990s European conservative-corporatist welfare states have expanded public support for child- and eldercare needs. This is in marked contrast to Southern European countries, of which Italy is a paradigmatic example. In Italy, the traditional configuration (limited development of social services coupled with the importance of informal care, mainly provided by women) has recently come under strain, also because of the increasing employme…
Nothing on the Move or Just Going Private? Understanding the Freeze on Child- and Eldercare Policies and the Development of Care Markets in Italy
Since the 1990s European conservative-corporatist welfare states have expanded public support for child- and eldercare needs. This is in marked contrast to Southern European countries, of which Italy is a paradigmatic example. In Italy, the traditional configuration (limited development of social services coupled with the importance of informal care, mainly provided by women) has recently come under strain, also because of the increasing employme…
Tensions between quantity and quality in social investment agendas
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) has become a strategic component of the Social Investment (SI) paradigm. Growth in this field of social policy – quantified as an increase in public spending and coverage rates – is often taken as indicative of a wider attempt to reformulate welfare state intervention through an SI approach. However, SI agendas have produced differentiated impacts in different contexts. In scenarios of budget restraints, …
Happy ever after in the quasi-market place? The dowry logic of active labour policy in the Lombardy Region
Purpose – The dote system is the most recent and only way to finance and deliver services in the training and labour policy field in Lombardy (Italy), strengthening the regional quasi-market approach. The purpose of this paper is to analyse its logic and highlight the implications for the policy system. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative case-study including preliminary documentation, analysis of administrative data, in-depth interviews wi…
Explaining subnational variations in early childhood education and care. A fuzzy‐set analysis of the Italian case
Although cross‐country differences in the development of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services have been widely researched, the pronounced subnational variation that characterizes many countries is little researched. This article aims to contribute filling this gap by investigating the factors underlying ECEC development in Italian regions, where take‐up rates of public and subsidized daycare centers, behind a national average of 12%…
Nothing on the Move or Just Going Private? Understanding the Freeze on Child- and Eldercare Policies and the Development of Care Markets in Italy
Since the 1990s European conservative-corporatist welfare states have expanded public support for child- and eldercare needs. This is in marked contrast to Southern European countries, of which Italy is a paradigmatic example. In Italy, the traditional configuration (limited development of social services coupled with the importance of informal care, mainly provided by women) has recently come under strain, also because of the increasing employme…
Social Vulnerability in European Cities
New Social Risks and the Role of Local Welfare
Historically, European cities have been characterized by a strong link between economic competitiveness and social cohesion. This association is one of the most relevant peculiarities of European cities as compared to cities in other continents. According to many urban scholars
Happy ever after in the quasi-market place? The dowry logic of active labour policy in the Lombardy Region
Purpose – The dote system is the most recent and only way to finance and deliver services in the training and labour policy field in Lombardy (Italy), strengthening the regional quasi-market approach. The purpose of this paper is to analyse its logic and highlight the implications for the policy system. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative case-study including preliminary documentation, analysis of administrative data, in-depth interviews wi…
Activation and Rescaling
This chapter focuses on the implications of the activation paradigm in social assistance and labour market policies. Economic crisis and recession periods have historically been path-breaking moments bringing social and labour market policies into public debate, followed by varying degrees of reform implementation in practice. The chapter highlights some of the main driving forces that, with different timing and to different extents, triggered tw…
Assessing income support where no national minimum income scheme exists. Is it possible to apply the model family method to the Italian case
This article focuses on the application of a specific comparative methodology, the model family method (MFM), in measuring the income derived from minimum income schemes. The application of the MFM to the analysis of this policy field shows several criticalities such as the difficulty to analyze countries in which no national scheme exists, and in which both the intra-national variations and the discretionary power of street-level bureaucrats are…
Tensions between quantity and quality in social investment agendas
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) has become a strategic component of the Social Investment (SI) paradigm. Growth in this field of social policy – quantified as an increase in public spending and coverage rates – is often taken as indicative of a wider attempt to reformulate welfare state intervention through an SI approach. However, SI agendas have produced differentiated impacts in different contexts. In scenarios of budget restraints, …
Explaining subnational variations in early childhood education and care. A fuzzy‐set analysis of the Italian case
Although cross‐country differences in the development of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services have been widely researched, the pronounced subnational variation that characterizes many countries is little researched. This article aims to contribute filling this gap by investigating the factors underlying ECEC development in Italian regions, where take‐up rates of public and subsidized daycare centers, behind a national average of 12%…
Innovating local housing policies in a country of homeowners. Insights from an Italian affluent medium-sized city
Cities face increasing housing needs, particularly in Southern European countries, as well as tightening constraints on public expenditure. The mismatch between income levels and housing costs has come to concern a larger and more diversified share of the population so that housing needs strike beyond the poorest and most underprivileged profiles. This article discusses the outcomes of fieldwork conducted in San Donato Milanese, a medium-sized, a…
The Spaces of Social Services as Social Infrastructure
The spatial organisation of social services has long been residual for both urban planning and social welfare policies in Italian cities. This often results in randomly chosen locations and poor design arrangements, which ignore the role that space might play in fostering social life and inclusion. The scarce relevance given to the topic both in research and implementation is connected to the historical evolution of social services in the country…
Planning and designing universal access to social services. A pioneering local program on welfare spaces in Italy
The combined effect of socio-economic and demographic changes exerts pressure on the welfare systems and makes it more urgent to provide appropriate answers to increasing and diversifying needs with scanter resources. Local social services are strongly committed to such challenges. The physical features of the spaces of welfare, often neglected both by research and by implementation, play a fundamental role in the attempt to innovate and extend a…
Economics (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Welfare (5 works) · Public economics (4 works) · Development economics (3 works)