Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe

From Democracy to Good Management?
2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-21732-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 409 g

Providing a new comparative analysis of the changes which have radically questioned the 'old' organizational arrangements of the delivery of welfare services since the early 1980s, this book argues that new managerial accountability regimes severely undermine the democratic foundations of the welfare state in Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mattei, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: Welfare and Administration: The New Settlement, 1980-2007 The New Administrative Settlement of the Welfare State  The Internalisation of Accountability PART II: State Schools and Public Hospitals in Europe Enduring Managerialism in the Internal Governance of Public Hospitals Patterns of Convergence in Educational Accountability in State Schools in Europe  PART III: Welfare Democracy and Managerialism Towards the Managerial Welfare State: The Mechanism of a Silent Revolution European Welfare States and Democracy: Marching at the Same Tune?  Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

PAOLA MATTEI is Research Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany. She won the T.H.Marshall Fellowship at the London School of Economics for her research project on comparative welfare reforms in Europe, completed at the Transformations of the State Research Centre, Bremen, Germany and the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. She has published on comparative politics and public policy, including work on social administration and welfare state change.