Writing a book like this incurs a variety of debts. We have no doubt that thinking and writing
are collaborative acts–and many people have done their best to help us think and write in …

Active inclusion reforms are radically transforming social policies in Europe. Consequently,
the welfare state is changing from a social citizenship approach based on uniform benefits …

This article focuses on the contracting-out of Public Employments Services. Quasi-markets
promise to deliver more efficient, effective and de-bureaucratised employment services. By …

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 …

Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-
work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and …

Welfare recipients are increasingly subject to various forms of work-related conditionality
that, critics argue, presuppose a “pathological” theory of unemployment that stigmatizes …

Den här rapporten är en översikt av forskningen om den aktiva arbetsmarknadspolitikens
effekter. En tidigare översikt (Calmfors m. fl. 2002) från IFAU inventerade och …

Organizational reform has become a recurring solution to problems of social exclusion and
unemployment. In E urope, and other parts of the world, there is a trend towards policies of …

Purpose–The purpose of this introduction to the special issue is to give an overview of the
key aspects of the governance of activation policies as discussed in the existing literature. It …

In many countries welfare services that traditionally have been provided by the public sector
are being contracted out to private providers. But are private contractors better at providing …