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How has New Public Management influenced social policy reform in
different developed welfare states? New managerialism is
conceptualized as a paradigm, which not only shapes the
decision-making process in bureaucratic organizations but also
affects the practice of individuals (citizens). Public
administrations have been expected to transform from traditional
bureaucratic organizations into modern managerial service providers
by adopting a business model that requires the efficient and
effective use of resources. The introduction of managerial
practices, controlling and accounting systems, management by
objectives, computerization, service orientation, increased
outsourcing, competitive structures and decentralized
responsibility are typical of efforts to increase efficiency. These
developments have been accompanied by the abolition of civil
service systems and fewer secure jobs in public administrations.
This book provides a sociological understanding of how public
administrations deal with this transformation, how people's role as
public servants is affected, and what kind of strategies emerge
either to meet these new organizational requirements or to
circumvent them. It shows how hybrid arrangements of public
services are created between the public and the private sphere that
lead to conflicts of interest between private strategies and public
tasks as well as to increasingly homogeneous social welfare
provision across Europe.
Bringing together international case studies, this book offers
theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between
social work and social policy. Moving beyond existing studies on
policy practice, the book employs the policy cycle as a core
analytical frame and focuses on the influence of social work(ers)
in the problem definition, agenda setting, policy formulation and
implementation of social policy. Twenty-three contributors offer
examples of policy making from seven different countries and
demonstrate how social work practitioners can become political
actors, while also encouraging policy makers to become aware of the
potential of social work for the social policy-making process.
How has New Public Management influenced social policy reform in
different developed welfare states? New managerialism is
conceptualized as a paradigm, which not only shapes the
decision-making process in bureaucratic organizations but also
affects the practice of individuals (citizens). Public
administrations have been expected to transform from traditional
bureaucratic organizations into modern managerial service providers
by adopting a business model that requires the efficient and
effective use of resources. The introduction of managerial
practices, controlling and accounting systems, management by
objectives, computerization, service orientation, increased
outsourcing, competitive structures and decentralized
responsibility are typical of efforts to increase efficiency. These
developments have been accompanied by the abolition of civil
service systems and fewer secure jobs in public administrations.
This book provides a sociological understanding of how public
administrations deal with this transformation, how people's role as
public servants is affected, and what kind of strategies emerge
either to meet these new organizational requirements or to
circumvent them. It shows how hybrid arrangements of public
services are created between the public and the private sphere that
lead to conflicts of interest between private strategies and public
tasks as well as to increasingly homogeneous social welfare
provision across Europe.
Bringing together international case studies, this book offers
theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between
social work and social policy. Moving beyond existing studies on
policy practice, the book employs the policy cycle as a core
analytical frame and focuses on the influence of social work(ers)
in the problem definition, agenda setting, policy formulation and
implementation of social policy. Twenty-three contributors offer
examples of policy making from seven different countries and
demonstrate how social work practitioners can become political
actors, while also encouraging policy makers to become aware of the
potential of social work for the social policy-making process.
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