Towards More Democracy in Social Services : : Models of Culture and Welfare / / ed. by Gaby Flösser, Hans-Uwe Otto.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Ahme, Göran,; Bauer, Rudolph,; Brückner, Margrit,; Buhr, Petra,; Burghardt, Steve,; Coohey, Carol,; Dewe, Bernd,; Engel, Matthias,; Evers, Adalbert,; Fabricant, Michael,; Flösser, Gaby,; Gensink, Gesine,; Gilbert, Neil,; Grunow, Dieter,; Hallett, Christine,; Hansen, Eckhard,; Harris, John,; Heiner, Maja,; Laan, Geert van der,; Markert, Andreas,; Marsh, Jeanne C.,; Matthies, Aila-Leena,; Otto, Hans-Uwe,; Petersen, Kerstin,; Piel, Konstanze,; Pollitt, Christopher,; Prein, Gerald,; Richter, Helmut,; Rödel, Ulrich,; Schaarschuch, Andreas,; Schmidt, Mathias,; Seckinger, Mike,; Siiriäinen, Inger,; Stern, Mark J.,; Stjernø, Steinar,; Sünker, Heinz,; Wagenblass, Sabine,
• HerausgeberIn: Flösser, Gaby,; Otto, Hans-Uwe,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies on Childhood and Adolescence : ISCA ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (419 p.)

Table of Contents

i-iv -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Towards More Democracy in Social Services: Models and Culture of Welfare -- Part I. The Welfare Approach -- The End of Progressivism: Paradigmatic Shifts and Social Welfare -- Consumers, Citizens and Coproducers – A Pluralistic Perspective on Democracy in Social Services -- Social Service Delivery: The More Demand, the More Democracy? -- Civil Society and the Welfare State -- Does Welfare Lead to Dependency? Effectiveness and Undesirable Side-Effects of Welfare Institutions -- Social Rights, Power and the Democratization of Social Services -- The Scandinavian Social Service Model -- Welfare, Democracy and Social Work -- Democratization: The Recovery of the Political in Social Work(?) -- Part II. The Organizational Approach -- The Organizational Construction of Social Citizenship -- Democratization by Modernization? The Future Development of Social Service Organization -- Personal Social Services: Changing Organizational Forms and Service User Participation. A British Perspective on the Democratization Debate -- Client Demands and Professional Responsibility in Democratic Welfare Organizations -- Old Democracy – New Quality? Transformation of Social Services in East Germany and Finland. The Case of Child Daycare -- Cooperative Relations Within Youth Assistance – A Step Towards Democratization of Social Services? -- Children’s Participation in Child Welfare Services -- Modernizing the Youth Welfare System: The Forgotten Perspective of the Clients -- Does Democratic Rationality Extend to Social Services? Legitimation Problems in Professional Action -- Empowerment – A Challenge for Professionalization in Social Work -- Privatization and Professionalization: Challenges to Social Service Delivery in the U.S.A. -- Feminist Care Work Projects in Germany: Between Self-Help and Professional Identity -- Rising from the Ashes of Cutback, Political Warfare and Degraded Services: Community Building as a Template for Recreating the Welfare State -- Part III. The Quality Approach -- Improving the Quality of Social Services: New Opportunities for Participation? -- Quality-Enhancement in the Service Society: Perspectives for Social Work -- Reform and Restructuring of Social Services in the United States: Evaluating Collaborative Service Models -- Client Participation as an Instrument of Quality Assurance in Social Work: The Potential for Democratization in the ‘New’ Quality Consciousness -- Quality Assurance of Voluntary Welfare Associations: A Question of Morals, Law, Contract or Participation? -- Self-Evaluation – The Ultimate Boot-Strap Approach? -- Contributors