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Contracting-out welfare services : comparing national policy designs for unemployment assistance / edited by Mark Considine and Siobhan O'Sullivan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Broadening perspectives on social policy.
- Broadening Perspectives on Social Policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social service--Contracting out--Europe.
- Social service.
- Public welfare--Europe.
- Public welfare.
- Unemployment--Europe.
- Unemployment.
- Public-private sector cooperation--Europe.
- Public-private sector cooperation.
- Public administration--Europe.
- Public administration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (419 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: List of Contributors Introduction: Contracting-out Welfare Services- Comparing National Policy Designs for UnemploymentAssistance Mark Considine and Siobhan O'Sullivan 1 Worlds of Marketization - Employment Policies in Germany,Italy and the UK Compared Katharina Zimmermann, Patrizia Aurich, Paolo R. Graziano andVanesa Fuertes 2 Varieties of Market Competition in Public Employment Services- A Comparison of the Emergence and Evolution of the NewSystem in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium Ludo Struyven 3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting onNot-for-profit Organizations - An Australian Study Mark Considine, Siobhan O'Sullivan and Phuc Nguyen 4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation - A FrontlinePerspective Rik van Berkel 5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services -Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare Isabel Shutes and Rebecca Taylor 6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments,Same Old Problem James Rees, Adam Whitworth and Elle Carter 7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks -A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany's PublicEmployment Service Matthias Knuth 8 The Public Accountability of Privatized Activation - TheCase of Israel Avishai Benish Index .
- Notes:
- "Originally published as Volume 48, Issue 2 of Social Policy & Administration."
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781119016458
- 1119016452
- 9781119016465
- 1119016460
- OCLC:
- 903436759
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