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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

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

List of Contributors viiIntroduction: Contracting?]out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance 1Mark Considine and Siobhan O'Sullivan1 Local Worlds of Marketization - Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the UK Compared 11Katharina Zimmermann, Patrizia Aurich, Paolo R. Graziano and Vanesa Fuertes2 Varieties of Market Competition in Public Employment Services - A Comparison of the Emergence and Evolution of the New System in Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium 33Ludo Struyven3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profits Organizations - An Australian Study 55Mark Considine, Siobhan O'Sullivan and Phuc Nguyen4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation - A Frontline Perspective 75Rik van Berkel5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services - Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare 91Isabel Shutes and Rebecca Taylor6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments, Same Old Problem 109James Rees, Adam Whitworth and Elle Carter7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks - A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany's Public Employment Service 129Matthias Knuth8 The Public Accountability of Privatized Activation - The Case of Israel 151Avishai BenishIndex 167