O'Sullivan, Siobhan and Mark Considine, Contracting-Out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance, (2015)

Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance (Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy)

Contracting-out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance is an edited collection focused on the design and re-design of welfare-to-work systems around the world. The welfare state has undergone a radical change over the past 30 years. Nowhere have the changes been more fundamental, and the results more pronounced, than in relation to welfare-to-work, employment services privatization, and jobseeker activation.

This book represents a new standard in the field of employment services scholarship; authors from around the world, all experts in the field, draw on a much longer intellectual legacy, in particular New Public Management; social policy; public policy; activation;the welfare state; the third sector; flexsecurity ;mission drift; and quasi-markets. This book confirms employment services delivery as a discrete field of research, and uses employment services as a case study to advance understanding inrelation to a host of broader principles and concepts.

Each of the papers included in this book utilises anational/program case study, and each considers employment servicespolicy in general, and activation practices in particular; essaysstand as unique and standalone contributions to the literature, andcombined, present a significant contribution to scholarship, and practice, in this important field.

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

1 Worlds of Marketization - Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the UK Compared

2 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

3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profit Organizations - An Australian Study

4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation - A Frontline Perspective

5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services - Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare

6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments, Same Old Problem

7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks - A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany's Public Employment Service

8 The Public Accountability of Privatized Activation - The Case of Israel

世界各国で、「就労に向けた福祉」（Welfare-to-Work）政策の計画と再計画が進んでいる。過去30年間に、福祉国家は急進的な転換を経験したが、「就労に向けた福祉」政策、雇用サービスの民営化、求職者のアクティベーションの領域ほどに根本的な変化を経験した領域は、他にはなかった。

この本は、「就労に向けた福祉」政策の実際について、オーストラリア、ヨーロッパ各国、イスラエルを対象とした事例研究を集めた本。各国の制度変化、雇用サービスの民営化、第3セクターにおける雇用サービス、地域レベルのサービスの実施、などを議論している。