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

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

Siobhan O'Sullivan,Mark Considine

Description

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).

Series

Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy

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