Contracting-out Welfare Services

Mark Considine is Professor of Political Science and Dean of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has a long-standing interest in employment services having studied the evolution of the Australian, UK and Dutch systems over many years. He has published widely in the field, including Enterprising States: The Public Management of Welfare-to-Work (2001) and Making Public Policy: Institutions, Actors, Strategies (2005).Siobhan O'Sullivan is a Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where her research specialises in the delivery of employment services in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands. She is the author of Animals, Equality and Democracy (2011).

• List of Contributors viiIntroduction: Contracting]out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance 1Mark Considine and Siobhan O’Sullivan1 Local Worlds of Marketization – Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the UK Compared 11Katharina Zimmermann, Patrizia Aurich, Paolo R. Graziano and Vanesa Fuertes2 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 33Ludo Struyven3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profits Organizations – An Australian Study 55Mark Considine, Siobhan O’Sullivan and Phuc Nguyen4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation – A Frontline Perspective 75Rik van Berkel5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services – Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare 91Isabel Shutes and Rebecca Taylor6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments, Same Old Problem 109James Rees, Adam Whitworth and Elle Carter7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks – A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany’s Public Employment Service 129Matthias Knuth8 The Public Accountability of Privatized Activation – The Case of Israel 151Avishai BenishIndex 167