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Restructuring Welfare Organizations in Europe

From Democracy to Good Management?

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  • © 2009

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  1. Paola Mattei

    1. Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Paola Mattei
      Pages 1-9

  3. Welfare and Administration: The New Settlement, 1980–2007

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. The New Administrative Settlement of the Welfare State

      • Paola Mattei
      Pages 13-33

    3. The Internalization of Accountability

      • Paola Mattei
      Pages 34-58

  4. State Schools and Public Hospitals in Europe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Enduring Managerialism in the Internal Governance of Public Hospitals

      • Paola Mattei
      Pages 61-100

    3. Patterns of Convergence in Educational Accountability in State Schools in Europe

      • Paola Mattei
      Pages 101-139

  5. Welfare Democracy and Managerialism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Towards the Managerial Welfare State: The Mechanism of a Silent Revolution

      • Paola Mattei
      Pages 143-160

    3. European Welfare States and Democracy: Marching to the Same Tune?

      • Paola Mattei
      Pages 161-175

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 176-219
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About this book

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.

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

Authors and Affiliations

  • Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany

    Paola Mattei

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.

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