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Restructuring Welfare Governance

Author : Tanja Klenk
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783475773
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring Welfare Governance written by Tanja Klenk and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together cutting-edge scholarship on an under-researched and topical issue. Quasi-marketization and managerialization of welfare organizations are found to constitute common reform trends in many European countries and across social policy domains, following similar timings albeit with different intensities. The analysis, carried out at the meso and micro levels, reveals that ex-post control by states has been strengthened, managers are becoming relevant or even central actors, while professionals in public welfare institutions are seeing their role and autonomy challenged.' - Ana M. Guillén, University of Oviedo, Spain 'In the contemporary welfare state public management has become a profession of its own. At the same time professionals in public welfare bureaucracies have incorporated market considerations and managerial objectives in their daily work. This current evolution of welfare governance, path dependent as it is, has been documented thoroughly in this book, both in depth and from a comparative perspective. It makes the book a must read for all who are interested in the welfare state and care about its future.' - Peter Hupe, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands 'This edited collection on welfare governance across Europe will prove itself invaluable for research and teaching purposes. It usefully brings together the whole range of social sciences in a series of well organized, evidenced and argued chapters. The book is organized into two parts, the first focusing on the impact of marketization and managerialization across Europe and across sectors within the welfare state, while the second half focuses on the professions and the emerging human resource management issues. Both are crucial aspects of the new governance and together deliver a coherent and comprehensive set of papers addressing a highly pertinent set of questions for policymakers, analysts and managers for the next decade and will become recommended reading for the students, the welfare state, social and health policy as well as public sector management and administration.' - Mike Dent, Staffordshire University, UK Quasi-markets and managerial steering techniques have spread in the provision of welfare state services and are now a salient feature. This innovative book explores the introduction and impact of marketization and managerialism in social policy by adopting a dual perspective - one on regulation and governance, the other on human resources - covering five fields of social service delivery. Welfare governance (for example, welfare mix, regulation, employment conditions and customer involvement) has changed significantly in the past decade. In particular, the new governance models not only clash with traditional ideas of bureaucratic regulation but also with the norms and standards of professional service delivery. The fact that the labor force in welfare organizations is made up of 'professionals' implies that the introduction of new modes of welfare governance often results in organizational conflicts. The editors and contributors collectively assesses these processes not only by comparing different policy fields and countries, but also by taking a close look inside organizations, examining the coping strategies of professionals, and how they adapt to new models of governing welfare organizations. An ideal compliment to undergraduate and postgraduate study, Restructuring Welfare Governanceis essential reading for scholars in the fields of social policy, public administration and comparative welfare state analysis. Contributors: K. Baadsgaard, V. Burau, F.A. Ceravolo, B. Jantz, H. Jørgensen, T. Klenk, E. Kuhlmann, R. Moscati, M. Noordegraaf, I. Nørup, E. Pavolini, T. Peetz, M. Rostan, U. Schimank, A. Stanchi, C. Teelken, H. Theobald, M. Thunnissen, M. Turri

Restructuring Welfare Governance

Author : Raven Treloar
Publisher : Socialy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781681177489
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (774 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring Welfare Governance written by Raven Treloar and published by Socialy Press. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welfare governance has changed expressively in the past decade. The administration and implementation of welfare involve a wide diversity of state organisations, private commercial organisations and non-profit organisations. However, the roles and positions of these states, private and non-profit organisations in administering and implementing social policies vary significantly between countries. This inconsistency is commonly accredited to the differences in welfare systems. However, in the era of welfare reform, everything is in instability. This includes the role and position of state, private and non-profit actors in social policies. The concept of governance, which is widely gaining popularity in social policies, refers to these changing relations between government and society. Governance is about sustaining co-ordination and coherence among a wide variety of actors with different purposes and objectives such as political actors and institutions, corporate interests, civil society, and transnational organisations. So there are many reasons to assume that welfare reform has affected the involvement of state, private and non-profit actors in administering and implementing social policy. The book, Restructuring Welfare Governance, tries to figure out the mechanisms by which good governance and economic order influence economic outcome. As the system of social welfare governance faces continued, radical change, this important book argues that this change is so extensive that we should consider it a fundamental transformation or revolution. This monograph shows how a new public governance perspective has replaced the dominance of public management, reflecting the increasingly plural and fragmented nature of public policy implementation. Drawing on studies across a range of policy areas, this comprehensive book unravels the complex ways in which changes in social policy and governance interact in the delivery of social welfare, making it essential reading for welfare researchers, students, and policy makers. With the development of formally free labour markets, market forces became the chief mode of capitalist economic coordination. The concept of governance is very useful in analysing welfare regimes as it enables us to classify regimes in terms of their typical combinations of modes of coordination. In particular, the new governance models not only clash with traditional ideas of bureaucratic regulation but also with the norms and standards of professional service delivery.

Restructuring the Welfare State

Author : Virpi Timonen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781957301
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring the Welfare State written by Virpi Timonen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virpi Timonen investigates both the changes that have taken place in central social policies in the areas of pensions, unemployment policies, social and health servcies, and the political and structural reasons for the pattern of policy change that emerged. A critical evaluation of the roles of globalization, political mechanisms and power relationships in shaping these social policies in Finland and Sweden is also featured.".

Restructuring Public Welfare Administration to Meet the Needs of People in an Urban Society

Author : United States. Welfare Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe

Author : P. Mattei
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230234429
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe written by P. Mattei and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a new comparative analysis of the changes which have radically questioned the 'old' organizational arrangements of the delivery of welfare services since the early 1980s, this book argues that new managerial accountability regimes severely undermine the democratic foundations of the welfare state in Europe.

Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe

Author : Paola Mattei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781349303953
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe written by Paola Mattei and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the new institutional governance affecting health care and state education in the new millennium, Mattei offers a compelling analyses of the pressures 'from within' public organizations providing welfare services. In a broad comparative perspective, the book analyses current welfare reforms in Britain, Germany, France and Italy. Mattei draws on recent work in public administration theory, and empirical new findings from public hospitals and state secondary schools, to develop an important argument about the variations of accountability relationships and the effects on the decision-making process. The book offers illuminating insights into the effectiveness of the new public governance of welfare organizations, pointing in particular to the implications for democratic accountability. In addressing the following question - how the relationship between political and managerial accountability is changing in welfare services - the book will be of interest to students and academics concerned with the development of the welfare state, as well as in the fields of comparative politics, social policy and public administration. Policy-makers and professionals engaged directly in managing welfare organizations will also find this book an innovative contribution to further their understanding of the role of managerialism in the modern transformations of the welfare state.

The Coalition Government and Social Policy

Author : Hugh M. Bochel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781447324614
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book The Coalition Government and Social Policy written by Hugh M. Bochel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Restructuring the German Welfare State. Health Care Policy and Reform in Germany

Author : Christiane Landsiedel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638362493
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring the German Welfare State. Health Care Policy and Reform in Germany written by Christiane Landsiedel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology - Politics, Majorities, Minorities, grade: A, University of Dalarna (Political Sociology), course: Restructuring the Welfare State, language: English, abstract: As health care is among the most personal issues, this is one reason why it is also among the most politically discussed as cost containment has become a priority of health care policy. Health care has consumed a large and growing portion of social spending in all advanced industrialised societies, particularly in the last decade. This cost explosion coincided with the global economic slowdown and worries about the fiscal viability of the welfare state. Reasons for escalating health care costs are, although to varying degrees, common to Western countries. The health care sector provides fertile ground for technological innovations that may prolong life but at considerable expense. Moreover, once these discoveries are made, it is extremely difficult for insurers or governments to limit their provision, as patients demand access to these treatments. Furthermore, the aging population of Western countries has direct consequences for health care because older persons are more likely to be in need of cost intensive treatment and/or care due to acute illness or chronic conditions. At the same time, birth rates are no longer balanced with increasing longevity, so that there will be fewer working age persons in the future to bear the financial requirements for elderly care. Governments and employers claimed that health care costs posed immediate and longterm problems and began to search for ways to address them. The ‘new politics of the welfare state’ – Pierson’s (1996) famous concept, which deals with welfare state reform in the face of changing demographic and tougher economic conditions – has also modified the position of diverse welfare state stakeholders. The actions and preferences of payers and the state are determined by the prevailing health care system as well as by the political system and whether it provides them an opportunity to influence health policies.

The Coalition Government and Social Policy

Author : Bochel, Hugh
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447324560
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Coalition Government and Social Policy written by Bochel, Hugh and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2015, general elections in the United Kingdom shocked the world as a new Conservative Government was voted into power, ending five years of Coalition governance. Both a response to the actions of the Coalition Government and a reflection on the implications of actions taken during the first hundred days of the new Conservative Government, this book could not be more timely in its assessment of the current and future states of UK social policies. The first book to consider Coalition social policy in its entirety, it not only reviews and evaluates the extent of change under the Coalition--looking at the impact of factors like austerity measures on social policies and politics more broadly--but also draws out what the Coalition years will mean for the incoming government, outlining both the challenges and opportunities of its legacy.

Restructuring the Welfare State

Author : Peter Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642606520
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring the Welfare State written by Peter Koslowski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The welfare state has been developed first and in its largest extent in North-Western Europe, in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden. It is also in these countries where the crisis and financial problems of the welfare state are felt first. The need for restructuring the welfare state is a challenge of a supra-national, European and international scale. The book analyses the different welfare states in Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden with outlooks to Eastern Europe and Japan and examines the proposals for reforming and restructuring the welfare state in Europe. The book offers a unique combination of empirical and philosophical-ethical analysis of the welfare state.

Restructuring Public Welfare Administration to Meet the Needs of People in an Urban Society

Author : United States. Welfare Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring Public Welfare Administration to Meet the Needs of People in an Urban Society written by United States. Welfare Administration and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Administering welfare reform

Author : Henman, Paul
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847421539
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Administering welfare reform written by Henman, Paul and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2006-03-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received far less attention. Using empirical case studies, this book provides significant new insights into the way welfare administration is being internationally transformed. Particular attention is given to the effect on welfare clients, staff and agencies. Administering welfare reform presents a critical analysis of governance practices in welfare administration and examines shifts in the participants, practices and processes of welfare administration. It presents original empirical case studies that highlight the effects of reforming welfare governance on welfare subjects, staff and agencies and provides a much-needed international and comparative perspective of changing welfare governance. This book is aimed at scholars and advanced students of sociology, social policy, economics, public administration and management, as well as social policy practitioners and service delivery workers.

Restructuring The Welfare State

Author : B. Rothstein
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312296285
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Restructuring The Welfare State written by B. Rothstein and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern welfare state is under threat from a variety of fronts. Changing demographic patterns, declining public trust, interest group demands and growing international competition for capital and labour are presenting modern states with intense pressures. This volume examines these competing pressures and offers a coherent analyses of both institutional resilience and institutional change. Adopting an evolutionary approach, this innovative volume demonstrates both how past practices and policies significantly affect the current options and how social and economic forces impinge upon each of these societies in surprisingly different ways. Cross-national in scope and unified in approach, Restructuring the Welfare State examines core issues facing the contemporary welfare state while at the same time significantly advancing historical institutionalist theory.

The Delegated Welfare State

Author : Kimberly J. Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199875634
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Delegated Welfare State written by Kimberly J. Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are so many American social programs delegated to private actors? And what are the consequences for efficiency, accountability, and the well-being of beneficiaries? The Delegated Welfare State examines the development of the American welfare state through the lens of delegation: how policymakers have avoided direct governmental provision of benefits and services, turning to non-state actors for the governance of social programs. Utilizing case studies of Medicare and the 2009-10 health care reform, Morgan and Campbell argue that the prevalence of delegated governance reflects the powerful role of interest groups in American politics, the dominance of Congress in social policymaking, and deep contradictions in American public opinion. Americans want both social programs and small government, leaving policy makers in a bind. Contracting out public programs to non-state actors masks the role of the state and enlists private allies who push for passage. Although delegated governance has been politically expedient, enabling the growth of government programs in an anti-government political climate, it raises questions about fraud, abuse, administrative effectiveness, and accountability. In probing both the causes and consequences of delegated governance, The Delegated Welfare State offers a novel interpretation of both American social welfare politics and the nature of the American state.

Activating Labour Market Policies and the Restructuring of "welfare" and "state"

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Author : Irene Dingeldey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Activating Labour Market Policies and the Restructuring of "welfare" and "state" written by Irene Dingeldey and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Redefining the State

Author : Nicolas Spulber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521024181
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Redefining the State written by Nicolas Spulber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Spulber traces the role of the state in the West and East for more than two centuries along parallel lines--first from the creation of the Welfare State in the West, and the Party-State in the East, to reform of the Western Welfare State by means of privatization and entitlement changes, to transmutations in the East through large scale privatizations and the creation of the "nomenklatura capitalism." He establishes an original connection between dismantling state enterprises and limitation of government functions at all levels in the West, and the collapse and then restructuring of the state on new foundations in the East.

The New Politics of the Welfare State

Author : Paul Pierson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191522910
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The New Politics of the Welfare State written by Paul Pierson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-04-05 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The welfare states of the affluent democracies now stand at the centre of political discussion and social conflict. In these path-breaking essays, an international team of leading analysts rejects simplistic claims about the impact of economic 'globalization'. Economic, demographic, and social pressures on the welfare state are very real, but many of the most fundamental challenges have little to do with globalization. Nor do the authors detect signs of a convergence of national social policies towards an American-style lowest common denominator. The contemporary politics of the welfare state takes shape against a backdrop of both intense pressures for austerity and enduring popularity. Thus in most of the affluent democracies, the politics of social policy centre on the renegotiation, restructuring, and modernization of the post-war social contract rather than its dismantling. The authors examine a wide range of countries and public policies arenas, including health care, pensions, and labour markets. They demonstrate how different national settings affect whether, and on what terms, centrist efforts to restructure the welfare state can succeed.