Welfare state governance is about tackling social issues, empowering citizens, and adding societal value. It is also about improving public health and quality of life, alleviating inequality, and reducing social polarization. Bringing together researchers from around the world, this volume examines how politics, policies and services contribute to the strengthening of societal value. It assesses the societal impact of policies and professional actions, the ways in which social inequalities and dependencies are traced, and how policies and professional services respond to new societal challenges. It also considers what arrangements enable policies and services to generate more value, and the ways in which politicians, policymakers, public executives, public managers, professionals and employees prepare for this. Comparative and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume will appeal to all those interested in public administration, political science and sociology.

Examines how politics, policies and services contribute to the strengthening of societal value Integrates theoretical frameworks with empirical case studies from Europe, Latin America, Japan, Australia and Africa Provides a comparative and interdisciplinary assessment of the subject

Autorentext

Tanja Klenk is Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at Helmut-Schmidt University, Germany.

Mirko Noordegraaf is Professor of Public Management at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Elisabetta Notarnicola is Associate Professor of Practice in Government, Health and Not-for-Profit at SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy.

Karsten Vrangbæk is Professor at the Political Science and Public Health Department, and Director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy (CHEP), University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhalt

Part I: Politics.- Chapter 1: Hester van de Bovenkamp & Martijn Felder: The micropolitics of renegotiat-ing professional and informal care in the changing welfare state.- Chapter 2: Friends with benefits? The societal value and the daily work of aca-demics.- Chapter 3: Identify construction at the office: How Dutch soldiers make sense of their professional identity in non-operational positions.- Chapter 4: How Welfare Politics Shape the Societal Value of Public Policies and Ser-vices: Lessons from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.- Part II: Policies.- Chapter 5: Collaborative practices in the regulatory welfare state? A societal value perspective.- Chapter 6: Leponiemi, Ulriika & Nadja Nordling: Engaged universities as platforms of interdisciplinary research for societal value.- Chapter 7: Lethbridge, Jane: Public values and the search for 'informed choice' in maternity services during the period 1991-2022 in England.- Chapter 8: Martinussen, Pål E., Frode Veggeland & Håvard T. Rydland: Health system type, recommodification and well-being in Europe.- Chapter 9: Kudo, Hiroko: Implementing Japanese Elderly Long-Term Care: Understanding the changing role of family in producing societal value.- Part III: Services.- Chapter 10: Hall, Patrick & Alamaa, Linda & Lofgren, Karl: Organisational Professionals, Accountability and the impact on societal value.- Chapter 11: Van Osch, Lara, Ben Kuipers & Nadine Raaphorst: Understanding the role of shared leadership behaviours in frontline teams in enhancing societal value.- Chapter 12: Coggo Cristofoletti, Evandro & Milena Pavan Serafim: The use of research for capacity building in the public sector.- Chapter 13: How can welfare services be measured and evaluated through a public and societal value perspective?.- Chapter 14: Franken, Esme & Yvonne Brunetto: The impact of public sector reform models on aged care services and employee outcomes.