TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fuertes, Vanesa
A1  - Jantz, Bastian
A1  - Klenk, Tanja
A1  - McQuaid, Ronald
T1  - Between cooperation and competition: The organisation of employment service delivery in the UK and Germany
T2  - International journal of social welfare
N2  - The increased emphasis on labour market activation in many European countries has led to new forms of governance in recent decades. Primarily through qualitative data and document analysis, this article compares the restructuring of labour market service delivery in the UK and Germany. The comparison suggests the emergence of complex governance arrangements that seek to balance public regulation and accountability with the creation of room for market competition. As a result, we can observe in both countries a greater use of markets, but also of rules. While in both countries the relationships between different providers of labour market services can best be described as a mixture of cooperation and competition, differences exist in terms of instruments and the comprehensiveness of coordination initiatives. The findings suggest that the distinctions between governance models may be more important in theory than in practice, although the combinations of theoretical forms vary in different circumstances.
KW  - activation
KW  - coordination
KW  - employment services
KW  - Germany
KW  - governance
KW  - UK
Y1  - 2014
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37518
SN  - 1369-6866
SN  - 1468-2397
VL  - 23
SP  - S71
EP  - S86
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -