The new governance of welfare states in the United States and Europe : between decentralization and centralization in the activation era / Mariely López-Santana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

López-Santana, Mariely, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare administration--United States.

Public welfare administration.

Welfare state.

United States.

Public welfare administration--European Union countries.

Welfare state--United States.

Welfare state--European Union countries.

European Union countries.

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

Public welfare--European Union countries.

Decentralization in government--United States.

Decentralization in government.

Decentralization in government--European Union countries.

Physical Description:

xviii, 212 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2015]

Summary:

Until recently, studies of changes in the welfare state have tended to focus on transformations in the nature of social policies and their level of generosity. The New Governance of Welfare States in the United States and Europe concentrates on an often overlooked dimension: territorial and governance transformations. Employing detailed case studies and more than seventy-five interviews, Mariely López-Santana captures how a variety of postindustrial countries across both sides of the Atlantic have transformed the postwar organization of their labor market policy settings through decentralization, centralization, and delegation reforms. These changes have in turn changed the role of national and subnational levels of government, as well as nongovernmental actors, in the organization, management, and provision of labor market policies and services. López-Santana's multidisciplinary, comparative, and multilevel approach to welfare state change is an original and Important step forward in our understanding of welfare reforms enacted since the mid-1990s. Book jacket.

Contents:

Between unity and fragmentation : an introduction to the institutional reconfiguration of active welfare states in Europe and United States

Activation and its implications : situating the project

Favoring subnational flexibility over standardization : extensive decentralization in Italy and the United States

Balancing subnational flexibility and national unity : decentralization in Spain and the United Kingdom (with Milena Büchs)

Flexibility within centralization : the German case (with Milena Büchs)

The intergovernmental and governance reconfigurations of active welfare states : summary and implications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438454672

1438454678

OCLC:

879642307