Marketization and Varieties of Accountability Relationships in Employment Services
- 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.
| Author details: | Bastian JantzGND, Tanja KlenkORCiDGND, Flemming Larsen, Jay Wiggan |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399715581622 |
| ISSN: | 0095-3997 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3039 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Administration & society |
| Subtitle (English): | Comparing Denmark, Germany, and Great Britain |
| Publisher: | Sage Publ. |
| Place of publishing: | Thousand Oaks |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2018/03/01 |
| Publication year: | 2018 |
| Release date: | 2022/01/19 |
| Tag: | Denmark; Germany; Great Britain; accountability; employment services; marketization |
| Volume: | 50 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Number of pages: | 25 |
| First page: | 321 |
| Last Page: | 345 |
| Funding institution: | Norwegian Research CouncilResearch Council of Norway |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Green Open-Access |
