Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe: From Democracy to Good Management?

by P. Mattei

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780230217324
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/25/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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 and Political Science, London, UK. She has published on comparative politics and public policy, including work on social administration and welfare state change.

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: Welfare and Administration: The New Settlement, 1980-2007 The New Administrative Settlement of the Welfare State The Internalisation of Accountability PART II: State Schools and Public Hospitals in Europe Enduring Managerialism in the Internal Governance of Public Hospitals Patterns of Convergence in Educational Accountability in State Schools in Europe PART III: Welfare Democracy and Managerialism Towards the Managerial Welfare State: The Mechanism of a Silent Revolution European Welfare States and Democracy: Marching at the Same Tune? Notes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

"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 Mattei's challenging and provocative exploration of the clash between the new managerialism and democratic accountability is argued with sophistication and solid scholarship."

- Rudolf Klein, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, Bath University, and Visiting Professor London School of Economics, UK

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