Administering welfare reform : : International transformations in welfare governance /

Administering welfare reform : : International transformations in welfare governance / / ed. by Paul Henman, Menno Fenger.

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While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received far less attention. Using empirical case studies, this book provides significant new insights into the way welfare administration is being internationally transformed. Particular attention...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Barnes, Jo,
Fenger, Menno,
Genova, Angela,
Handler, Joel F.,
Henman, Paul,
Howard, Cosmo,
Kazepov, Yuri,
Ramia, Gaby,
Valadas, Carla,
White, Deena,
Wright, Sharon,
HerausgeberIn:
Fenger, Menno,
Henman, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction: administering welfare reform
  • Welfare reform as governance reform: the prospects of a governmentality perspective
  • Participants: reforming the agents of welfare delivery
  • State–third sector partnership frameworks: from administration to participation
  • Shifts in welfare governance: the state, private and non-profit sectors in four European countries
  • From charity to ‘not-for-profit’: changes in the role and structure of voluntary social service agencies
  • Practices: the welfare governance of street-level practices
  • ‘Ending welfare as we know it’: welfare reform in the US
  • The new governance of Australian welfare: street-level contingencies
  • The administration of transformation: a case study of implementing welfare reform in the UK
  • Processes: the changing spaces of welfare governance
  • Administering global welfare: public management, governance and the new role of INGOs
  • The fight against unemployment as a main concern of European social policy: the implications of a new, local-level approach
  • From government fragmentation to local governance: welfare reforms and lost opportunities in Italy
  • Reforming welfare governance: reflections
  • Index

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