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.

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.

Doktorarbeit / Dissertation aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Sozialwissenschaften allgemein, Note: 1, Universitat Wien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Untersuchung "Der Habitus und die Illusion individueller Selbstbestimmung. Implikationen fur das politische Subjekt" findet das aus der strukturalistischen Feldtheorie abgeleitete Konzept des Habitus, welcher als Bindeglied gesellschaftlicher Mikro- und Makrozusammenhange verstanden wird, in Bezug auf das historisch schrittweise generierte politische Subjekt Anwendung. Aus den objektiven Strukturgegebenheiten einer Gesellschaft resultieren je nach Stellung im Sozialraum, d.h. nach den zugewiesenen Koordinaten des Individuums, spezifische mentale Strukturen als charakteristische Formung der psychischen Apparaturen bzw. der Identitat des Einzelnen. Die Inkorporation der ausseren Strukturen kanalisiert die Denk- und Handlungsvorgange und fuhrt als gesellschaftlich erzeugter Habitus zu einem typischen Prinzip des Wahlens, Deutens, Interpretierens, Urteilens und Verhaltens. Folglich ergibt sich das Bewusstsein des Subjekts aus dem gesellschaftlich-lokalisierten Sein. Die aus der Positionierung im Gesellschaftraum herruhrenden Einschrankungen des Einzelnen werden infolge von Erziehungsprogrammen, Sozialisationsablaufen, Dispositionsmodifikationen in den alltaglichen Interaktionsvorgangen sowie von Internalisierungen von aussen herangetragener Normensysteme in Denk-, Wahrnehmungs-, Handlungs- und Urteilsbegrenzungen, also Grenzen im Kopf, transformiert. Aussere Tatbestande lassen sich dementsprechend in der dispositionalen Realitat des Individuums reproduzieren und nehmen in der Konsequenz die Form von kulturell Unbewusstem sowie Selbstverstandlichem als naturwuchsig Angesehenes an. Ferner bringt die Ahnlichkeit von Dispositionen, abhangig von strukturellen Distanzen der Akteure, analytisch die Moglichkeit mit sich, Zusammenfassungen in soziale Klassen vorzunehmen. Sowohl Einzelne als auch Klassen definieren sich uber i