Contracting-out Welfare Services E-Book

Siobhan O'Sullivan

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 371

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national/program case study, considering employment services policy and activation practices.

• International contributors bring a global comparative perspective to the subject
• Contributors are all experts in their field, who also draw on a much longer intellectual legacy
• Uses employment services as a case study to advance understanding in relation to a host of broader principles and concepts
• Each paper included within the text uses a national/program case study, and each considers employment services policy in general, and activation practices in particular

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Cover

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

List of Contributors

Introduction

References

1 Local Worlds of Marketization – Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the UK Compared

Introduction

Activation Policies and Marketization

Research Design

Market-based Interventions in Activation Policies in the UK, Germany and Italy

Comparative Discussion

Conclusion

References

2 Varieties of Market Competition in Public Employment Services – A Comparison of the Emergence and Evolution of the New System in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium

Introduction

A Model for Explaining Policy Change

The Origin of Market Competition in Australia and The Netherlands

The Evolution of Market Competition in Australia and The Netherlands

Explanation in Comparative Perspective: The Netherlands/Australia

Explanation in Comparative Perspective: The Netherlands/Belgium

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profits Organizations – An Australian Study

Introduction

Method

Employment Services Reform in Australia

The Role of Boards of Directors

Australian Not-for-Profit Boards’ Response to Service Contracting

The Challenges to Not-for-Profit Boards Posed by Competitive Tendering

Conclusion

References

4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation – A Frontline Perspective

Introduction

The Marketized Provision of Activation Services

Research Context

Research Methods

Research Findings

Conclusion and Discussion

Acknowledgements

References

5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services – Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare

Introduction

The Social Divisions of Work and Welfare

The Financing of Contracted Employment Services

The Effects of Conditionality of Funding in a Market of Employment Services

Conclusion

References

6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments, Same Old Problem

Introduction

The Path to the Work Programme: A Radical Departure from an Established Trend

Creaming, Parking and Differential Payments in the Work Programme

Data and Methods

Differential Payments but Still Differential Outcomes: Rhetoric vs. Reality in the Work Programme

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks – A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany’s Public Employment Service

Introduction

Broken Hierarchies: The Structure and Governance of the German Public Employment Service before and after the Hartz Reforms

The Federal Programme Perspective 50plus in the Context of Labour Market and Pension Reforms

Perspective 50plus as a Relatively Successful Programme: Some Stylized Results from the Evaluation

Explaining the Success of the Programme through the Features of its Governance

Discussion

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

8 The Public Accountability of Privatized Activation – The Case of Israel

Introduction

Public Accountability and Privatization

Capturing Public Accountability in Privatized Forms of Service Delivery

The Case Study: Activation in Israel

Research Methodology

Analyzing Contractors’ Public Accountability

Accountability Reconstructed: The Public Accountability of Private Activation

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Tables

Chapter 01

Table 1 Type of marketization

Table 2 Varieties of regulation

Chapter 07

Table 1 Key figures of programme development

Table 2 Structure of programme spending in 2011

List of Illustrations

Chapter 01

Figure 1 Regulation of marketization and discretion of local actors

Figure 2 Market-based interventions as share of expenditure on active labour market policies (ALMP

2–7

) and labour market services (ALMP

1

)

Figure 3 Market-based interventions as share of total LMP-expenditure (2007)

Chapter 02

Figure 1 Forms of gradual change in the evolution of a market system in Australia

Figure 2 Forms of gradual change in the evolution of a market system in the Netherlands

Chapter 06

Figure 1 Differential job outcomes between Work Programme claimant groups

Figure 2 Differential job outcomes within Work Programme claimant groups

Figure 3 Patterned inequalities in job outcomes across Work Programme contracts

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Broadening Perspectives on Social PolicySeries Editor: Bent Greve

The object of this series, in this age of re-thinking on social welfare, is to bring fresh points of view and to attract fresh audiences to the mainstream of social policy debate.

The choice of themes is designed to feature issues of major interest and concern, such as are already stretching the boundaries of social policy.

This is the eighteenth collection of papers in the series. Previous volumes include:

Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance

M. Considine and S. O'Sullivan

Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy

I. Greener and B. Greve

Crime and Social Policy

H. Kemshall

The Times They Are Changing? Crisis and the Welfare State

B. Greve

Reforming Long-term Care in Europe

J. Costa-Font

Choice: Challenges and Perspectives for the European Welfare States

B. Greve

Living in Dangerous Times: Fear, Insecurity, Risk and Social Policy

D. Denney

Reforming the Bismarckian Welfare Systems

B. Palier and C. Martin

Challenging Welfare Issues in the Global Countryside

G. Giarchi

Migration, Immigration and Social Policy

C. Jones Finer

Overstretched: European Families Up Against The Demands of Work and Care

T. Kröger and J. Sipilä

Making a European Welfare State?: Convergences and Conflicts over European Social Policy

P. Taylor-Gooby

The Welfare of Food: Rights and Responsibilities in a Changing World

E. Dowler and C. Jones Finer

Environmental Issues and Social Welfare

M. Cahill and T. Fitzpatrick

The Business of Research: Issues of Policy and Practice

C. Jones Finer and G. Lewando Hundt

New Risks, New Welfare: Signposts for Social Policy

N. Manning and I. Shaw

Transnational Social Policy

C. Jones Finer

Crime & Social Exclusion

C. Jones Finer and M. Nellis

Contracting-out Welfare Services

Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance

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Mark Considine and Siobhan O'Sullivan

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List of Contributors

Patrizia Aurich, Institute for Work, Skills and Training, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

Avishai Benish, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Rik van Berkel, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Elle Carter, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Mark Considine, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Vanesa Fuertes, Employment Research Institute, Business School, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

Paolo R. Graziano, Department of Institutional Analysis and Public Management, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Matthias Knuth, Institute for Work, Skills and Training, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Phuc Nguyen, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Siobhan O’Sullivan, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

James Rees, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Isabel Shutes, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, London, UK

Ludo Struyven, Faculty of Social Sciences and Research Institute for Work and Society, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Rebecca Taylor, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Adam Whitworth, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Katharina Zimmermann, Department of Social Services, CvO University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Introduction: Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance

Mark Considine and Siobhan O’Sullivan

With welfare reformers in almost every country experimenting with forms of privatization and what its advocates have called ‘supervisory approaches to poverty’ or ‘a new behaviouralism’, it is timely to present this book. Dedicating a book to the governance of quasi-markets in welfare services attests to the momentous nature of the radical redesign the welfare state has undergone over the past two decades. A similar reinvention has occurred across numerous policy fields and has affected most social services. Yet nowhere have the changes been more radical, and the results more pronounced, than in the realm of welfare-to-work, employment services privatization and jobseeker activation. All too often, social policy commentators are forced to lament that reforms were ‘oversold’ by policy makers, things at the local level did not change all that much or major parts of the reform agenda of governments were effectively subverted by system inertia. Not in the case of employment services.