Contracting-out welfare services : comparing national policy designs for unemployment assistance / / edited by Mark Considine and Siobhan O'Sullivan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910132305403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-119-01645-2; 1-119-01646-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (419 p.)
• Collana: Broadening Perspectives on Social Policy
• Classificazione: POL019000
• Disciplina: 361.0068/4
• Soggetti: Social service - Contracting out - Europe; Public welfare - Europe; Unemployment - Europe; Public-private sector cooperation - Europe; Public administration - Europe; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Originally published as Volume 48, Issue 2 of Social Policy & Administration."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 .
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--