| Description |
1 online resource (252 pages) |
| Series |
Research in comparative & global social policy |
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Research in comparative & global social policy.
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| Contents |
Part I: Modelling; 1. The active turn(s); 2. Tests, compromises and policy change; 3. Cities of unemployment; Part II: Activation reforms; 4. From looking backwards to forwards: unemployment insurance, France, 2000; 5. Turning solutions into 'structural' problems: unemployment insurance, Denmark, 1992-93; 6. Testing thresholds: social assistance, France, 2007-08; 7. Intimate scandals: social assistance, Denmark, 2011-13 Part III: Patterns8. Chemotherapy: the content of the moral economy of activation; 9. Infinite testing: tests and critique in and below the public |
| Summary |
By rethinking the role of ideas and morality in policy changes, this book illustrates how the moral economy of activation leads to a permanent behaviourist testing of the unemployed in public debate as well as in local jobcentres |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 19, 2019) |
| Subject |
Unemployed -- Government policy -- Europe
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Unemployment -- Government policy -- Europe
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.
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Unemployed -- Government policy
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Unemployment -- Government policy
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1447349970 |
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9781447349976 |
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9781447350095 |
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144735009X |
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9781447349983 |
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1447349989 |
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