Filipe Teles
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Filipe Teles is a political scientist in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he teaches courses in the fields of Public Policy and Political Science. Presently, he is acting as Prorector for Regional Development and Urban Policies.
President (2021-2025) of the European Urban Research Association (EURA)
He holds a PhD in Political Science and is a member of the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy (GOVCOPP), where he has developed research work on governance and local government, territorial reform, political leadership and innovation. Filipe Teles participates in several national and international projects and is the author and co-author of several books and articles in international journals of reference.
In the context of his teaching and research activities he has lectured in several universities and countries: University of Warsaw (Poland), CEU Budapest (Hungary), University of Potsdam (Germany), ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland), Universidad Nacional de San Martin - Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bogota (Colombia), UNTL - Dili (East Timor), Institute of Advanced Studies - Koszeg (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), University College Cork (Ireland), among others.
Coordinator of the Local Governance and Politics Section of the Portuguese Political Science Association (APCP).
Member of:
Steering Committee of the Local Government and Politics Standing Group (European Consortium for Political Research)
Board of the Research Committee on Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics (RC05) of the International Political Science Association
Political Studies Association (UK)
American Political Science Association (APSA)
Portuguese Political Science Association
Current Research Projects
Project Coordinator:
CeNTER – Community-led Networks for Territorial Innovation Apr2017-Mar2021
DECIDE: Decentralized Territorial Governance - Coordination, Capacity and Accountability in Local Governance Arrangements in complex regional settings Jul2018-Jul2022
Member of the Research Team:
Unalab (Urban Nature Labs) Horizon2020, 2017-2022
Project Ô - demonstration of planning and technology tools for a circular, integrated and symbiotic use of water Horizon2020, 2018-2022
Ecological Footprint of Portuguese Municipalities
Local State-society Relations in Europe (Coord: Institut für Politikwissenschaft, TU Darmstadt)
Getting out of the shadows? - research on territorial self-government in the European context (coord: University of Warsaw)
Phone: +351 234 372 527
Address: Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences
University of Aveiro
Campus Universitário de Santiago . 3810-193 Aveiro
PORTUGAL
Filipe Teles is a political scientist in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he teaches courses in the fields of Public Policy and Political Science. Presently, he is acting as Prorector for Regional Development and Urban Policies.
President (2021-2025) of the European Urban Research Association (EURA)
He holds a PhD in Political Science and is a member of the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy (GOVCOPP), where he has developed research work on governance and local government, territorial reform, political leadership and innovation. Filipe Teles participates in several national and international projects and is the author and co-author of several books and articles in international journals of reference.
In the context of his teaching and research activities he has lectured in several universities and countries: University of Warsaw (Poland), CEU Budapest (Hungary), University of Potsdam (Germany), ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland), Universidad Nacional de San Martin - Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bogota (Colombia), UNTL - Dili (East Timor), Institute of Advanced Studies - Koszeg (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), University College Cork (Ireland), among others.
Coordinator of the Local Governance and Politics Section of the Portuguese Political Science Association (APCP).
Member of:
Steering Committee of the Local Government and Politics Standing Group (European Consortium for Political Research)
Board of the Research Committee on Comparative Studies on Local Government and Politics (RC05) of the International Political Science Association
Political Studies Association (UK)
American Political Science Association (APSA)
Portuguese Political Science Association
Current Research Projects
Project Coordinator:
CeNTER – Community-led Networks for Territorial Innovation Apr2017-Mar2021
DECIDE: Decentralized Territorial Governance - Coordination, Capacity and Accountability in Local Governance Arrangements in complex regional settings Jul2018-Jul2022
Member of the Research Team:
Unalab (Urban Nature Labs) Horizon2020, 2017-2022
Project Ô - demonstration of planning and technology tools for a circular, integrated and symbiotic use of water Horizon2020, 2018-2022
Ecological Footprint of Portuguese Municipalities
Local State-society Relations in Europe (Coord: Institut für Politikwissenschaft, TU Darmstadt)
Getting out of the shadows? - research on territorial self-government in the European context (coord: University of Warsaw)
Phone: +351 234 372 527
Address: Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences
University of Aveiro
Campus Universitário de Santiago . 3810-193 Aveiro
PORTUGAL
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Public child day-care can bring along several benefits, either concerning the child (educational, social) or the parents (female work, work in general, not dependent on grandparents, not dependent on the social security system). In all seven selected country cases (Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain) we find these motivations behind the existing service systems as well their reforms. These countries, on the other hand, represent distinctive local government and state models (Scandinavian, Middle European, Anglo-Saxon and South European) as well as welfare state traditions and particularly childcare models.
These nations are obviously different concerning the traditional way of child day-care: In Southern Europe and even in Ireland, for instance, the traditional role of unpaid family childcare was important, whereas in Germany there was a difference between East and West. In most countries, development of public childcare had to do with changing societal values, family structures, working life demands and especially the mass entry of women into the labour market. For similar reasons, Finland already in 1972 and, more recently, Germany recognized a legal claim for childcare services.
Europeanization and especially the so called Barcelona protocol, but even more the economic growth of the nineties has triggered the development of public childcare structures in several countries. Education seems to be the institutional home of child-day care in the most of the cases: Spain in total, Finland majority of municipalities, but in Germany and Greece it is part of youth welfare services.
Reforms in several European countries have included both vertical redistribution of competences among the jurisdictions and levels (up-scaling, down-scaling) as well as horizontal re-allocation of responsibilities among different actors (public, private, non-profit sector, inter-municipal cooperation) (trans-scaling). We will explore comparatively the common and diverse trends of rescaling childcare that emerged in the previous years and especially the impact of the global financial crisis and the public debt crisis, which especially affected Ireland and Southern Europe, often leading to upscaling of tasks and especially of financial instruments, furthermore reinforcing control mechanisms by central governments.
Child day-care belongs to the core of the social services in the EU member countries. The recent changes in this policy area, due to the economic crisis, policy-specific motivations, and more generic reforms concerning the municipal tasks and obligations, have led to redefinitions of who is entitled to the service, withdrawal of services, and reorganizing the service in terms of scaling and re-scaling. A policy shift seems to emerge following a decade of generous regional and local investments in daycare centers. The public debt crisis in 2010 puts an end to this growth and recent local government reforms have limited the autonomy of municipalities in the sector. With the retrenchment of local government, coverage is threatened.
The purpose of the paper, based on existing research in this field, is to analyze and compare these changes within a common framework, and ask how child day-care is organized in selected countries representing different models of local government, welfare and childcare traditions, what kind of state-region-local responsibilities prevail, why changes and re-scaling take place, and how they affect the citizens.
The thematically grouped case studies presented here address the dearth of comprehensive and comparative analyses in recent scholarship. The authors provide fresh insights into the rise of inter-municipal cooperation and its evolution during a period of financial crisis and European Union enlargement. This includes critical examinations of the impact of austerity policies, the behavior and perceptions of key actors; and under-explored new member states. Crucially, this work goes beyond the comparison of institutional forms of IMC to address why the phenomenon so widespread and questions whether it is successful, manageable and democratic.
This work which presents the most recent and innovative research on inter-local collaborative arrangements will appeal to practitioners as well as scholars of local government, public economy, public administration and policy.