Contracting-out Welfare Services

List of Contributors vii Introduction: Contracting?]out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance 1 Mark Considine and Siobhan O'Sullivan 1 Local Worlds of Marketization - Employment Policies in Germany, Italy and the UK Compared 11 Katharina Zimmermann, Patrizia Aurich, Paolo R. Graziano and Vanesa Fuertes 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 33 Ludo Struyven 3 Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not-for-profits Organizations - An Australian Study 55 Mark Considine, Siobhan O'Sullivan and Phuc Nguyen 4 Quasi-markets and the Delivery of Activation - A Frontline Perspective 75 Rik van Berkel 5 Conditionality and the Financing of Employment Services - Implications for the Social Divisions of Work and Welfare 91 Isabel Shutes and Rebecca Taylor 6 Support for All in the UK Work Programme? Differential Payments, Same Old Problem 109 James Rees, Adam Whitworth and Elle Carter 7 Broken Hierarchies, Quasi-markets and Supported Networks - A Governance Experiment in the Second Tier of Germany's Public Employment Service 129 Matthias Knuth 8 The Public Accountability of Privatized Activation - The Case of Israel 151 Avishai Benish Index 167