TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jantz, Bastian
A1  - Klenk, Tanja
A1  - Larsen, Flemming
A1  - Wiggan, Jay
T1  - Marketization and Varieties of Accountability Relationships in Employment Services
T2  - Administration & society
N2  - In the past decade, European countries have contracted out public employment service functions to activate working-age benefit clients. There has been limited discussion of how contracting out shapes the accountability of employment services or is shaped by alternative democratic, administrative, or network forms of accountability. This article examines employment service accountability in Germany, Denmark, and Great Britain. We find that market accountability instruments are additional instruments, not replacements. The findings highlight the importance of administrative and political instruments in legitimizing marketized service provision and shed light on the processes that lead to the development of a hybrid accountability model.
KW  - marketization
KW  - accountability
KW  - employment services
KW  - Denmark
KW  - Germany
KW  - Great Britain
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53496
SN  - 0095-3997
SN  - 1552-3039
VL  - 50
IS  - 3
SP  - 321
EP  - 345
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -