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020 _z9781119016496 (paperback)
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084 _aPOL019000
_2bisacsh
245 0 0 _aContracting-out welfare services :
_bcomparing national policy designs for unemployment assistance /
_cedited by Mark Considine and Siobhan O'Sullivan.
260 1 _aChichester, West Sussex, UK ;
_aMalden, MA :
_bWiley-Blackwell,
_c2015.
300 _a1 online resource.
490 1 _aBroadening perspectives on social policy
500 _a"Originally published as Volume 48, Issue 2 of Social Policy & Administration."
520 _a"Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance is an edited collection focused on the design and re-design of welfare-to-work systems around the world"--
_cProvided by publisher.
505 0 _aCover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; List of Contributors; Introduction; References; 1 Local Worlds of Marketization -- Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the UK Compared; Introduction; Activation Policies and Marketization; Research Design; Market-based Interventions in Activation Policies in the UK, Germany and Italy; Comparative Discussion; Conclusion; References; 2 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; Introduction.
505 8 _aA Model for Explaining Policy ChangeThe Origin of Market Competition in Australia and The Netherlands; The Evolution of Market Competition in Australia and The Netherlands; Explanation in Comparative Perspective: The Netherlands/Australia; Explanation in Comparative Perspective: The Netherlands/Belgium; Conclusion; References; Acknowledgements; 3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profits Organizations -- An Australian Study; Introduction; Method; Employment Services Reform in Australia; The Role of Boards of Directors.
505 8 _aAustralian Not-for-Profit Boards' Response to Service ContractingThe Challenges to Not-for-Profit Boards Posed by Competitive Tendering; Conclusion; References; 4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation -- A Frontline Perspective; Introduction; The Marketized Provision of Activation Services; Research Context; Research Methods; Research Findings; Conclusion and Discussion; References; Acknowledgements; 5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services -- Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare; Introduction; The Social Divisions of Work and Welfare.
505 8 _aThe Financing of Contracted Employment ServicesThe Effects of Conditionality of Funding in a Market of Employment Services; Conclusion; References; 6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments, Same Old Problem; Introduction; The Path to the Work Programme: A Radical Departure from an Established Trend; Creaming, Parking and Differential Payments in the Work Programme; Data and Methods; Differential Payments but Still Differential Outcomes: Rhetoric vs. Reality in the Work Programme; Conclusion; References; Acknowledgements.
505 8 _a7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks -- A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany's Public Employment ServiceIntroduction; Broken Hierarchies: The Structure and Governance of the German Public Employment Service before and after the Hartz Reforms; The Federal Programme Perspective 50plus in the Context of Labour Market and Pension Reforms; Perspective 50plus as a Relatively Successful Programme: Some Stylized Results from the Evaluation; Explaining the Success of the Programme through the Features of its Governance; Discussion; Conclusion; References.
650 0 _aSocial service
_xContracting out
_zEurope.
650 0 _aPublic welfare
_zEurope.
650 0 _aUnemployment
_zEurope.
650 0 _aPublic-private sector cooperation
_zEurope.
650 0 _aPublic administration
_zEurope.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aPublic administration.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01081976
650 7 _aPublic-private sector cooperation.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01083445
650 7 _aPublic welfare.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01083250
650 7 _aSocial service
_xContracting out.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01123212
650 7 _aUnemployment.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01161213
651 7 _aEurope.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01245064
650 4 _aCharities
_xPolitical aspects.
650 4 _aHuman services
_xPolitical aspects.
650 4 _aNon-governmental organizations
_xPolitical aspects.
650 4 _aPublic welfare
_xContracting out.
650 4 _aPublic welfare
_xPolitical aspects.
650 4 _aWelfare recipients
_xEmployment.
700 1 _aO'Sullivan, Siobhan,
_d1974-
700 1 _aConsidine, Mark,
_d1953-
730 0 _aSocial policy & administration.
830 0 _aBroadening perspectives on social policy.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1002/9781119016458
_zWiley Online Library
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999 _c208776
_d208776