{"product_id":"contracting-out-welfare-services-isbn-9781119016496","title":"Contracting-out Welfare Services","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContracting-out Welfare Services\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national\/program case study, considering employment services policy and activation practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eInternational contributors bring a global comparative perspective to the subject\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributors are all experts in their field, who also draw on a much longer intellectual legacy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses employment services as a case study to advance understanding in relation to a host of broader principles and concepts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach paper included within the text uses a national\/program case study, and each considers employment services policy in general, and activation practices in particular\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Contracting]out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Considine and Siobhan O’Sullivan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Local Worlds of Marketization – Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the UK Compared 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKatharina Zimmermann, Patrizia Aurich, Paolo R. Graziano and Vanesa Fuertes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Varieties of Market Competition in Public Employment Services – A Comparison of the Emergence and Evolution of the New System in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLudo Struyven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profits Organizations – An Australian Study 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Considine, Siobhan O’Sullivan and Phuc Nguyen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation – A Frontline Perspective 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRik van Berkel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services – Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsabel Shutes and Rebecca Taylor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments, Same Old Problem 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Rees, Adam Whitworth and Elle Carter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks – A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany’s Public Employment Service 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthias Knuth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Public Accountability of Privatized Activation – The Case of Israel 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAvishai Benish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMark Considine\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Science and Dean of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has a long-standing interest in employment services having studied the evolution of the Australian, UK and Dutch systems over many years. He has published widely in the field, including \u003ci\u003eEnterprising States: The Public Management of Welfare-to-Work\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and \u003ci\u003eMaking Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies\u003c\/i\u003e (2005).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSiobhan O'Sullivan\u003c\/b\u003e is a Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where her research specialises in the delivery of employment services in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAnimals, Equality and Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e (2011).  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance\u003c\/i\u003e is an edited collection focused on the design and re-design of welfare-to-work systems around the world. The welfare state has undergone a radical change over the past 30 years. Nowhere have the changes been more fundamental, and the results more pronounced, than in relation to welfare-to-work, employment services privatization, and jobseeker activation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book represents a new standard in the field of employment services scholarship; authors from around the world, all experts in the field, draw on a much longer intellectual legacy, in particular New Public Management; social policy; public policy; activation; the welfare state; the third sector; ‘flexsecurity’; mission drift; and quasi-markets. This book confirms employment services delivery as a discrete field of research, and uses employment services as a case study to advance understanding in relation to a host of broader principles and concepts. \u003c\/p\u003e Each of the papers included in this book utilises a national\/program case study, and each considers employment services policy in general, and activation practices in particular; essays stand as unique and standalone contributions to the literature, and combined, present a significant contribution to scholarship, and practice, in this important field.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988986282213,"sku":"NP9781119016496","price":36.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119016496.jpg?v=1761782323","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/contracting-out-welfare-services-isbn-9781119016496","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}