Government Governance And Welfare Reform

Author : Alberto Brugnoli,Alessandro Colombo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781009062

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Government, Governance and Welfare Reform by Alberto Brugnoli,Alessandro Colombo Pdf

'Alberto Brugnoli and Alessandro Colombo have put together an important collection of essays on government and governance in Italy and Britain. This richly documented comparative study proposes to answer two key questions: how does the change from government to governance emerge, and what enables this transformation to survive and even to displace State-centric solutions to public policy issues? The book will be a milestone in highlighting the distinctive and original role of the principle of subsidiarity, in examining and assessing governance regimes, their philosophy and their organizational choices and in linking subsidiarity with the prospects of freedom, responsibility and self-governing societies in the modern world. I know of no other book that brings the principle of subsidiarity to the frontier of the most current research in social science.' – Filippo Sabetti, McGill University, Canada This unique and original book focuses on institutional changes, welfare reforms and transformations in both Britain and Italy over the last three decades. The book illustrates that although it was a widely held belief in both countries that the arena of social and economic governance would shift to the national level, to the surprise of many, a different trend has emerged. In otherwise very different national experiences, both Britain and Italy have seen the sub-national level of governance become crucial in redefining public services, and in designing, delivering, and monitoring key services. The expert contributors use a distinctive and original principle – subsidiarity – as a lens through which to examine and assess these governance regimes, their philosophies, and their organizational choices. Academics, researchers and students of social policy, public policy, public administration and regional studies will find this book to be a highly fascinating read. It will also provide a wealth of information for policymakers and think tanks.

Author : Alberto Brugnoli,Alessandro Colombo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Central-local government relations
ISBN : OCLC:1319330985

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Government, Governance and Welfare Reform by Alberto Brugnoli,Alessandro Colombo Pdf

Author : Henman, Paul,Fenger, Menno
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847421531

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Administering welfare reform by Henman, Paul,Fenger, Menno Pdf

While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received far less attention. Using empirical case studies, this book provides significant new insights into the way welfare administration is being internationally transformed. Particular attention is given to the effect on welfare clients, staff and agencies. Administering welfare reform presents a critical analysis of governance practices in welfare administration and examines shifts in the participants, practices and processes of welfare administration. It presents original empirical case studies that highlight the effects of reforming welfare governance on welfare subjects, staff and agencies and provides a much-needed international and comparative perspective of changing welfare governance. This book is aimed at scholars and advanced students of sociology, social policy, economics, public administration and management, as well as social policy practitioners and service delivery workers.

Author : Carolyn J. Heinrich,Laurence E. Lynn Jr.
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781589013339

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Governance and Performance by Carolyn J. Heinrich,Laurence E. Lynn Jr. Pdf

Drawing on recent advances in the social sciences, this volume shows how rigorous, theory-based empirical research can help improve the management of public policies and programs—and how better governance can lead to better performance. These original essays demonstrate how better data and improved statistical techniques have allowed researchers to construct more complex models of governance processes and thereby assess the effects of many variables on policy and program outcomes. They present useful research results that illuminate such issues as automatic grade advancement in public schools, management of federally-funded job-training programs, reducing welfare caseloads, and management of welfare-to-work programs. Illustrating a range of theoretical and methodological possibilities, this book shows how more sophisticated research in public management can help improve government performance.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264196490

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OECD Public Governance Reviews Greece: Reform of Social Welfare Programmes by OECD Pdf

This review provides an analytical perspective of the current situation, including the construction of a database, in order to help the Greek government define reforms to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and fairness of selected social programmes.

Author : Mariely López-Santana
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438454672

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The New Governance of Welfare States in the United States and Europe by Mariely López-Santana Pdf

Detailed examination of the territorial and governance dimensions of contemporary welfare reforms in the United States and Europe. Until recently, studies of changes in the welfare state have tended to focus on transformations in the nature of social policies and their level of generosity. The New Governance of Welfare States in the United States and Europe concentrates on an often overlooked dimension: territorial and governance transformations. Employing detailed case studies and more than seventy-five interviews, Mariely López-Santana captures how a variety of postindustrial countries across both sides of the Atlantic have transformed the postwar organization of their labor market policy settings through decentralization, centralization, and delegation reforms. These changes have in turn changed the role of national and subnational levels of government, as well as nongovernmental actors, in the organization, management, and provision of labor market policies and services. López-Santana’s multidisciplinary, comparative, and multilevel approach to welfare state change is an original and important step forward in our understanding of welfare reforms enacted since the mid-1990s.

Author : Keping Yu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004186323

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The Reform of Governance by Keping Yu Pdf

The Reform of Governance is a translated collection of articles providing a look at how scholars in China have been assessing their country's recent governmental history. This volume, as well as the others in the SSRC series, provide western scholars with an accessible English language look at the state of current scholarship in China on the interplay of the country's Democratic reforms, electoral rules, accountability and social welfare.

Author : Raven Treloar
Publisher : Socialy Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 168117748X

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Restructuring Welfare Governance by Raven Treloar Pdf

Welfare governance has changed expressively in the past decade. The administration and implementation of welfare involve a wide diversity of state organisations, private commercial organisations and non-profit organisations. However, the roles and positions of these states, private and non-profit organisations in administering and implementing social policies vary significantly between countries. This inconsistency is commonly accredited to the differences in welfare systems. However, in the era of welfare reform, everything is in instability. This includes the role and position of state, private and non-profit actors in social policies. The concept of governance, which is widely gaining popularity in social policies, refers to these changing relations between government and society. Governance is about sustaining co-ordination and coherence among a wide variety of actors with different purposes and objectives such as political actors and institutions, corporate interests, civil society, and transnational organisations. So there are many reasons to assume that welfare reform has affected the involvement of state, private and non-profit actors in administering and implementing social policy. The book, Restructuring Welfare Governance, tries to figure out the mechanisms by which good governance and economic order influence economic outcome. As the system of social welfare governance faces continued, radical change, this important book argues that this change is so extensive that we should consider it a fundamental transformation or revolution. This monograph shows how a new public governance perspective has replaced the dominance of public management, reflecting the increasingly plural and fragmented nature of public policy implementation. Drawing on studies across a range of policy areas, this comprehensive book unravels the complex ways in which changes in social policy and governance interact in the delivery of social welfare, making it essential reading for welfare researchers, students, and policy makers. With the development of formally free labour markets, market forces became the chief mode of capitalist economic coordination. The concept of governance is very useful in analysing welfare regimes as it enables us to classify regimes in terms of their typical combinations of modes of coordination. In particular, the new governance models not only clash with traditional ideas of bureaucratic regulation but also with the norms and standards of professional service delivery.

Author : Ronghua Shen,Sheng Cao
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813294912

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Modernization of Government Governance in China by Ronghua Shen,Sheng Cao Pdf

This book provides an all-round analysis and exploration of the course, status quo and future of the Chinese Government's governance reform under the framework of government governance modernization. The authors bring their decades of experience in crafting policy in China to explain the relationship between China's government and market, between government and society, between the central government and local governments, functional transformation, organizational structure optimization, reform of public institutions, allocation of fiscally supported personnel, the building of a law-based government and other major issues, while also laying out a case for structural changes in the years to come.

Author : Bochel, Hugh,Powell, Martin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447324560

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The Coalition Government and Social Policy by Bochel, Hugh,Powell, Martin Pdf

In May 2015, general elections in the United Kingdom shocked the world as a new Conservative Government was voted into power, ending five years of Coalition governance. Both a response to the actions of the Coalition Government and a reflection on the implications of actions taken during the first hundred days of the new Conservative Government, this book could not be more timely in its assessment of the current and future states of UK social policies. The first book to consider Coalition social policy in its entirety, it not only reviews and evaluates the extent of change under the Coalition--looking at the impact of factors like austerity measures on social policies and politics more broadly--but also draws out what the Coalition years will mean for the incoming government, outlining both the challenges and opportunities of its legacy.

Author : Daniel Béland,Pierre-Marc Daigneault
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442609716

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Welfare Reform in Canada by Daniel Béland,Pierre-Marc Daigneault Pdf

Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. These conceptual, international, and historical perspectives inform in-depth case studies of social assistance reform in each province. The key issues of social assistance in Canada, including gender relations, immigrants, Aboriginal peoples, and the impact of activation programs, are addressed, as is the possibility of convergence taking place in provincial welfare policy. This book is the second volume in the Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching, and executive training with campuses at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan.

Author : Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Publisher : Organization for Economic Co-Operation & Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : 926427264X

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Multi-level Governance Reforms by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Pdf

This report provides an overview of "multi-level governance" reforms in OECD countries. It looks at institutional reforms, which reorganise powers, responsibilities and resources across levels of government, as well as territorial reforms, which address territorial structures, often modifying regional and local government administrative areas. The report describes the rationale for different reforms, their characteristics and outcomes, as well as the obstacles faced by governments in designing and implementing them. The success - and failure - of past reforms provide useful lessons that can be applied to future reform efforts. The report includes five case studies that take an in-depth look at countries that have undertaken considerable multi-level governance reforms: Finland, France, Italy, Japan and New Zealand.

Author : Robert L. Bish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : 0969504322

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Local Government in British Columbia by Robert L. Bish Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264921412

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Government at a Glance 2021 by OECD Pdf

The 2021 edition includes input indicators on public finance and employment; process indicators include data on institutions, budgeting practices, human resources management, regulatory governance, public procurement, governance of infrastructure, public sector integrity, open government and digital government. Outcome indicators cover core government results (e.g. trust, political efficacy, inequality reduction) and indicators on access, responsiveness, quality and satisfaction for the education, health and justice sectors.

Author : Michael Barnett,Martha Finnemore
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801465109

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Rules for the World by Michael Barnett,Martha Finnemore Pdf

Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental insight that international organizations are bureaucracies that have authority to make rules and so exercise power. At the same time, Barnett and Finnemore maintain, such bureaucracies can become obsessed with their own rules, producing unresponsive, inefficient, and self-defeating outcomes. Authority thus gives international organizations autonomy and allows them to evolve and expand in ways unintended by their creators. Barnett and Finnemore reinterpret three areas of activity that have prompted extensive policy debate: the use of expertise by the IMF to expand its intrusion into national economies; the redefinition of the category "refugees" and decision to repatriate by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; and the UN Secretariat's failure to recommend an intervention during the first weeks of the Rwandan genocide. By providing theoretical foundations for treating these organizations as autonomous actors in their own right, Rules for the World contributes greatly to our understanding of global politics and global governance.