Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds : : Outcome-Based Payment Systems in the UK and US / / Kevin Albertson, Chris Fox, Chris O'Leary, Gary Painter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Albertson, Kevin,; Fox, Chris,; O'Leary, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.) :; 1 Black and White

As public services budgets are cut, the ‘Payment by Results’ (or Pay for Success) model has become a popular choice in public sector commissioning. Social Impact Bonds are a variant of Payment by Results also promoted by proponents of social (or impact) investing. But how effective are these approaches? This short book asks whether the Payment by Results model is an efficient way to unlock new capital investment, help new providers to enter the ‘market’ and foster innovation, or whether the extension of ‘neoliberal’ thinking, complexity and the effects of managerialism undermine the effective delivery of social outcomes. Synthesising lessons from the UK and US for the first time, the book draws on published work in both countries together with insights from the authors’ own research and consultancy experience to offer a balanced and bipartisan overview of a field where the evidence has been weak and there are strong ideological agendas in play.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Notes on the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: outcome-based payment and the reform of public services -- Outcome-based commissioning: theoretical underpinnings -- Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds in the UK -- Pay for Success and Social Impact Bonds in the US -- Review of the evidence for outcome-based payment systems -- Conclusions, cautions and future directions -- References -- Index