Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance
Dec 2014 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons
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About this eBook
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
About the author
Mark Considine is Professor of Political Science and Dean of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has a long-standing interest in employment services having studied the evolution of the Australian, UK and Dutch systems over many years. He has published widely in the field, including Enterprising States: The Public Management of Welfare-to-Work (2001) and Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies (2005).
Siobhan O'Sullivan is a Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where her research specialises in the delivery of employment services in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands. She is the author of Animals, Equality and Democracy (2011).
Siobhan O'Sullivan is a Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where her research specialises in the delivery of employment services in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands. She is the author of Animals, Equality and Democracy (2011).
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