Making It Personal: Individualising Activation Services in the EU

ISBN 10: 1861347979 / ISBN 13: 9781861347978

Editore: Policy Press, 2007

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Riassunto:

Public social services are increasingly being individualised in order to better meet the differentiated needs of competent and independent citizens and to promote the effectiveness of social interventions. This book addresses this development, focusing on a new type of social services that has become crucial in the 'modernisation' of welfare states: activation services.The book discusses and analyses the individualisation of activation services against the background of social policy reforms on the one hand, and the introduction of new forms of public governance on the other. Critically discussing the rise of individualised social services in the light of various theoretical points of view, it analyses the way in which activation and the 'active subject' are presented in EU discourse. It compares the introduction of individualised activation services in five EU welfare states: the UK, Germany, Italy, Finland and the Czech Republic, focusing on official policies as well as policy practices.The book provides original insights into the phenomenon of the individualised provision of activation services. It is useful reading for policy makers as well as for students and researchers of welfare states, social policies and public governance.

Informazioni sugli autori:

Rik van Berkel, Department of General Social Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University and Ben Valkenburg, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University

Rik van Berkel and Ben Valkenburg are researchers of comparative social and labour market policies. They work at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

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Titolo: Making It Personal: Individualising ...
Casa editrice: Policy Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Very Good