This volume brings together cutting-edge scholarship on an
under-researched and topical issue. Quasi-marketization and
managerialization of welfare organizations are found to constitute
common reform trends in many European countries and across social
policy domains, following similar timings albeit with different
intensities. The analysis, carried out at the meso and micro
levels, reveals that ex-post control by states has been
strengthened, managers are becoming relevant or even central
actors, while professionals in public welfare institutions are
seeing their role and autonomy challenged.' - Ana M. Guillen,
University of Oviedo, Spain'In the contemporary welfare state
public management has become a profession of its own. At the same
time professionals in public welfare bureaucracies have
incorporated market considerations and managerial objectives in
their daily work. This current evolution of welfare governance,
path dependent as it is, has been documented thoroughly in this
book, both in depth and from a comparative perspective. It makes
the book a must read for all who are interested in the welfare
state and care about its future.' - Peter Hupe, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, the Netherlands 'This edited collection on welfare
governance across Europe will prove itself invaluable for research
and teaching purposes. It usefully brings together the whole range
of social sciences in a series of well organized, evidenced and
argued chapters. The book is organized into two parts, the first
focusing on the impact of marketization and managerialization
across Europe and across sectors within the welfare state, while
the second half focuses on the professions and the emerging human
resource management issues. Both are crucial aspects of the new
governance and together deliver a coherent and comprehensive set of
papers addressing a highly pertinent set of questions for
policymakers, analysts and managers for the next decade and will
become recommended reading for the students, the welfare state,
social and health policy as well as public sector management and
administration.' - Mike Dent, Staffordshire University, UK
Quasi-markets and managerial steering techniques have spread in the
provision of welfare state services and are now a salient feature.
This innovative book explores the introduction and impact of
marketization and managerialism in social policy by adopting a dual
perspective - one on regulation and governance, the other on human
resources - covering five fields of social service delivery.
Welfare governance (for example, welfare mix, regulation,
employment conditions and customer involvement) has changed
significantly in the past decade. In particular, the new governance
models not only clash with traditional ideas of bureaucratic
regulation but also with the norms and standards of professional
service delivery. The fact that the labor force in welfare
organizations is made up of 'professionals' implies that the
introduction of new modes of welfare governance often results in
organizational conflicts. The editors and contributors collectively
assesses these processes not only by comparing different policy
fields and countries, but also by taking a close look inside
organizations, examining the coping strategies of professionals,
and how they adapt to new models of governing welfare
organizations. An ideal compliment to undergraduate and
postgraduate study, Restructuring Welfare Governance is essential
reading for scholars in the fields of social policy, public
administration and comparative welfare state analysis.
Contributors: K. Baadsgaard, V. Burau, F.A. Ceravolo, B. Jantz, H.
Jorgensen, T. Klenk, E. Kuhlmann, R. Moscati, M. Noordegraaf, I.
Norup, E. Pavolini, T. Peetz, M. Rostan, U. Schimank, A. Stanchi,
C. Teelken, H. Theobald, M. Thunnissen, M. Turri
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