{"product_id":"getting-welfare-to-work-mark-considine-9780198743705","title":"Getting Welfare to Work: Street-Level Governance in Australia, the Uk, and the Netherlands","description":"\u003cem\u003eGetting Welfare to Work\u003c\/em\u003e traces the radical reform of the Australian, UK, and Dutch public employment services systems. Starting with major changes from 1998, this book examines how each national system has moved from traditional public services towards more privately provided and market-based methods. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach of these three countries developed innovative forms of contracting-out and complex incentive regimes to motivate welfare clients and to control the agencies charged with helping them. The Australian system pioneered the use of large, national contracts for services to all unemployed jobseekers. By the end of our study period this system was entirely outsourced to private agencies. Meanwhile the UK elected a form of contestability under Blair and Cameron, culminating in a new public-private financing model known as the 'Work Programme'. The Dutch had evolved their far more complex system from a traditional public service approach to one using a variety of specific contracts for private agencies. These innovations have changed welfare delivery and created both opportunities and new constraints for policy makers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003e Getting Welfare to Work\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of these bold policy reforms from the perspective of street-level bureaucrats. Interviews and surveys in each country over a fifteen year period are used to critically appraise this central pillar of the welfare state. The original data analysed in \u003cem\u003e Getting Welfare to Work\u003c\/em\u003e provides a unique comparative perspective on three intriguing systems. It points to new ways of thinking about modes of governance, system design, regulation of public services, and so-called activation of welfare clients. It also sheds light on the predicament of third sector organisations that contract to governments through competitive tenders with precise performance monitoring, raising questions of 'mission drift'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Considine, Jenny M. Lewis, Siobhan O'Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019874370X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198743705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Mark Considine","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46545632362751,"sku":"9780198743705","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ce70f384-cb7c-45fc-aa03-8a5af221a50f.jpg?v=1738182961","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/getting-welfare-to-work-mark-considine-9780198743705","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}