The Governance of Active Welfare States

Berkel, Rik van; Graaf, Willibrord de; Sirovátka, Tomáš

doi:10.1057/9780230306714_1

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“…Providers of activation services include either non‐profit or for‐profit organizations (or a mix); in some cases, target groups of activation programmes are given purchasing power in the form of vouchers or similar instruments (Hipp and Warner ; Sol and Westerveld ) although this seems to be the exception rather than the rule; and, as a consequence, ‘consumers’ – here: the target groups of activation policies – are often represented in the market by the agencies which administer their income benefits as these agencies often act as purchasers (van Berkel et al . ). Quasi‐markets for activation services sometimes have two additional characteristics.…”

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“…Several years after the introduction in the Netherlands of marketization, a new Social Assistance Act was introduced (2004) which deregulated and decentralized decision making concerning activation considerably (van Berkel et al . ). This included decisions concerning service provision models: local welfare agencies were free to organize the provision of activation services in‐house or through outsourcing and to make decisions concerning the nature and number of external service providers.…”

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Quasi‐markets and the Delivery of Activation – A Frontline Perspective

Berkel

2014

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This article analyzes the delivery of activation or welfare‐to‐work programmes and services in the context of quasi‐market service provision. It adopts a frontline perspective, looking in particular into two issues often discussed in the literature on quasi‐markets: risk selection in provider agencies and the administrative costs and burden related to monitoring provider agencies and agents. Data from a Dutch study of frontline workers in purchaser and provider agencies is presented to analyze frontline practices of risk selection and monitoring. The article concludes that interpreting provider behaviour in terms of risk selection may not be as straightforward as it seems, and that the widespread occurrence of risk selection processes throughout service provision chains makes it rather difficult to attribute risk selection unequivocally to rational provider behaviour. The monitoring process is experienced as an administrative burden, especially by workers in provider agencies, but it also has elements which workers consider as making a positive contribution to service provision processes in circumstances where actions of purchasers and providers need to be coordinated. This is partly related to the double function of monitoring in the context of activation policies in quasi‐market contexts: monitoring provider behaviour as well as monitoring client behaviour.

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Quasi‐markets and the Delivery of Activation – A Frontline Perspective

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2014

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“…La introducción de estos mecanismos de CPP no está siendo sencilla e incluso en algunos países se ha llegado a revertir el proceso (Van Berkel et al 2011;Breidahl y Larsen 2015). En España, tampoco está siendo pacífica (Jansen 2017).…”

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Reformas de ida y vuelta en la gobernanza horizontal del bienestar: el caso de la colaboración público-privada en la intermediación laboral en la Comunidad Valenciana

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Pino

2018

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Las ideas de la Nueva Gestión Pública y los procesos de emulación de políticas europeas han extendido la colaboración público-privada como instrumento de gobernanza horizontal en la provisión de bienestar. Sin embargo, la búsqueda de una mayor participación del sector privado en la gestión de determinados servicios públicos no está exenta de dificultades. Un caso claro es la reforma de la intermediación laboral llevada a cabo en España desde 2013, cuyo alcance final ha sido muy limitado debido a factores como la crisis, el contexto de gobierno multinivel y la ideología de los gobiernos. En este artículo se analiza el caso concreto de la Comunidad Valenciana para tratar de entender las dificultades de reforma de este programa público y contribuir a la literatura con nueva evidencia empírica sobre la importancia de los factores citados en el grado de éxito de las reformas que persiguen incrementar la colaboración pública-privada en el sector de las políticas sociales.

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“…The new market arrangements necessarily evolve from an open to a closed market and make way for new control instruments (Considine 2005b; Struyven ; Bredgaard and Larsen ; Weishaupt ; van Berkel et al . ). These reverse shifts are considered as a rational consequence of inefficient, unsuccessful and costly contracting‐out mechanisms.…”

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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

Struyven

2014

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This article deals with the evolution of a quasi‐market system in the employment services in three countries: Australia, the Netherlands and Belgium. Based on an in‐depth analysis of the reform process over the past two decades, we arrive at the observation that Australia and the Netherlands, unlike Belgium, make comparable choices when restructuring this policy domain, although their context of a welfare state is different. Second, the new structures in those countries which have made the same choices are seen to evolve differently after only a short period of time. This article argues that no convergence towards the same competitive market model is to be found. It provides an institutional explanation by tracing elements of a new system logic which entered the existing structure, and identifying change mechanisms which generate a cumulative process of smaller changes.

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The Governance of Active Welfare States

Cited by 50 publications

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Quasi‐markets and the Delivery of Activation – A Frontline Perspective

Quasi‐markets and the Delivery of Activation – A Frontline Perspective

Reformas de ida y vuelta en la gobernanza horizontal del bienestar: el caso de la colaboración público-privada en la intermediación laboral en la Comunidad Valenciana

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

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