Title: Restructuring Welfare Governance: Marketization, Managerialism and Welfare State Professionalism
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1783475765
ISBN 13: 9781783475766
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New
Weight: 597 grams

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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 Governance is 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. J�rgensen, T. Klenk, E. Kuhlmann, R. Moscati, M. Noordegraaf, I. N�rup, E. Pavolini, T. Peetz, M. Rostan, U. Schimank, A. Stanchi, C. Teelken, H. Theobald, M. Thunnissen, M. Turri

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Edited by Tanja Klenk, Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, Department of Economics And Social Sciences, Helmut-Schmidt-Universit�t/Universit�t der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany and Emmanuele Pavolini, University of Milan, Italy

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