Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe: From Democracy to Good Management?
Paola Mattei
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Providing a new comparative analysis of the changes which have radically questioned the 'old' organizational arrangements of the delivery of welfare services since the early 1980s, this book argues that new managerial accountability regimes severely undermine the democratic foundations of the welfare state in Europe.
Providing a new comparative analysis of the changes which have radically questioned the 'old' organizational arrangements of the delivery of welfare services since the early 1980s, this book argues that new managerial accountability regimes severely undermine the democratic foundations of the welfare state in Europe.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230217324
SKU
V9780230217324
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99-15
About Paola Mattei
PAOLA MATTEI is Research Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany. She won the T.H.Marshall Fellowship at the London School of Economics for her research project on comparative welfare reforms in Europe, completed at the Transformations of the State Research Centre, Bremen, Germany and the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics ... Read more
Reviews for Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe: From Democracy to Good Management?
Mattei presents an engaging and wide-ranging book...the book's 'message' is and will be highly salient to European welfare systems.' - Journal of Social Policy This book adds a new dimension to the study of the welfare state by examining, cross-nationally, the impact of change on the governance of hospitals and schools. Paola ... Read more