The delivery of public services by nonprofit and for-profit providers alters the nature of
services and jobs, often in unintended and undesired ways. We argue that these effects …

Marketization is an important component of international shifts in the governance of
employment services. Despite contrasting underlying welfare systems and employment …

Across Europe, market mechanisms are spreading into areas where they did not exist
before. In public administration, market governance is displacing other ways of coordinating …

Most Western countries have a long tradition of employment service provision by public
bodies and non-profit organisations, but not by for-profit organisations. The creation of a …

In the past decade, European countries have contracted out public employment service
functions to “activate” working-age benefit clients. There has been limited discussion of how …

Employer engagement is increasingly emphasised in the context of efforts to bring more
disadvantaged people into work. A new approach in the Norwegian Employment and …

The focal figure of governance reforms within the German healthcare system is nowadays
the―expert patient‖. Both, state-driven agendas of user activation as well as market-based …

Market instruments are increasingly used to drive innovation and efficiency in public
services. Meanwhile, many governments recognize the need for services to be more …

One of the most striking reconfigurations of Irish social care has been the entry of private for-
profit companies into a sector previously regarded as outside the market. This article …

The use of markets and market mechanisms to deliver care services is growing in both
liberal and social democratic welfare states. This article examines debates and policies …