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Restructuring welfare organizations in Europefrom democracy to goodmanagement? /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Restructuring welfare organizations in EuropePaola Mattei.
Reminder of title:	from democracy to goodmanagement? /
Author:	Mattei, Paola,
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	xiii, 219 p. ;23 cm.
Subject:	Public welfare administrationEurope.
Subject:	Europe
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230234420

Restructuring welfare organizations in Europefrom democracy to goodmanagement? /
Mattei, Paola,1974-

Restructuring welfare organizations in Europefrom democracy to goodmanagement? /[electronic resource]:Paola Mattei. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xiii, 219 p. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-205) and index.

Welfare and administration : the new settlement, 1980-2007 -- The new administrative settlement of the welfare state -- The internalizationof accountability -- State schools and public hospitals in Europe -- Enduring managerialism in the internal governance of public hospitals --Patterns of convergence in educational accountability in state schoolsin Europe -- Welfare democracy and managerialism -- Towards the managerial welfare state : the mechanism of a silent revolution -- European welfare states and democracy : marching to the same tune?

Focusing on the new institutional governance affecting health care and state education in thenew millennium, Mattei offers a compelling analyses of the pressures 'from within' public organizations providing welfare services. In a broad comparative perspective, the book analyses current welfare reforms in Britain, Germany, France and Italy. Mattei draws on recent work in public administration theory, and empirical new findings from public hospitals and state secondary schools, to develop an important argument about the variations of accountability relationships and the effects on the decision-making process. The book offers illuminating insights into the effectiveness of the new public governance of welfare organizations, pointing in particular to the implications fordemocratic accountability. In addressing the following question - how the relationship between political and managerial accountability is changing in welfare services - the book will be of interest to students and academics concerned with the development of the welfare state, as well as in the fields of comparative politics, social policy and public administration. Policy-makers and professionals engaged directly in managing welfare organizations will also find this book an innovative contribution to further their understanding of the role of managerialism in the modern transformations of the welfare state.  .

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230234420Subjects--Topical Terms:

462695
Public welfare administration
--Europe.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

244548
Europe
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HV238 / .M38 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 361.94

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