Enterprising States: The Public Management of Welfare-to-WorkThis book explores two fundamental shifts in the paradigms of governance in Western bureaucracies: the widespread use of privatisation, private firms and market methods to run core public services, and the conscious attempt to transform the role of citizenship from ideals of entitlement and security to new notions of mutual obligation, selectivity and risk. In this work Mark Considine examines a key service of the modern welfare state SH unemployment assistance--to explain and theorise the nature of these radical changes. He has undertaken extensive research in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, four countries which have been amongst the boldest reformers within the OECD, yet each adopting distinctively different models and programs. |
Contents
Enterprising the State | 1 |
Governance in Fours | 21 |
The United Kingdom Managing by Numbers | 37 |
New Zealand Two Steps Forward | 64 |
The Netherlands The PartTime Miracle | 90 |
Australia Governance as Competition | 117 |
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Enterprising States: The Public Management of Welfare-to-Work Mark Considine No preview available - 2001 |
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