TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jantz, Bastian
A1  - Klenk, Tanja
A1  - Larsen, Flemming
A1  - Wiggan, Jay
T1  - Marketization and Varieties of Accountability Relationships in Employment Services
BT  - Comparing Denmark, Germany, and Great Britain
JF  - 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
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399715581622
SN  - 0095-3997
SN  - 1552-3039
VL  - 50
IS  - 3
SP  - 321
EP  - 345
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Jantz, Bastian
A1  - Jann, Werner
T1  - Mapping accountability changes in labour market administrations
BT  - from concentrated to shared accountability?
N2  - The article explores how recent changes in the governance of employment services in three European countries (Denmark, Germany and Norway) have influenced accountability relationships. The overall assumption in the growing literature about accountability is that the number of actors involved in accountability arrangements is rising, that accountability relationships are becoming more numerous and complex, and that these changes may lead to contradictory accountability relationships, and finally to ‘multi accountability disorder’. The article tries to explore these assumptions by analysing the different actors involved and the information requested in the new governance arrangements in all three countries. It concludes that the considerable changes in organizational arrangements and more managerial information demanded and provided have led to more shared forms of accountability. Nevertheless, a clear development towards less political or administrative accountability could not be observed.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 85 
KW  - accountability
KW  - Denmark
KW  - Germany
KW  - labour market administration
KW  - Norway
KW  - public employment service
KW  - welfare state reform
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-403642
VL  - 79
IS  - 3
ER  -