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9781861347978: Making It Personal: Individualising Activation Services in the EU
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ISBN 10 : 1861347979 ISBN 13 : 9781861347978
Editeur : Policy Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Policy Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1861347979
ISBN 13 
9781861347978
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Éditeur
Van Berkel Rik, Valkenburg Ben
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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