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