During the last decade, many European countries introduced extensive reforms to the way that income protection and activation programmes for the unemployed are implemented and delivered. This book analyzes and compares these reforms in nine European countries, focusing on the reforms programmes themselves, as well as on their effects.

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MATHIEU BÉRAUD is Senior Lecturer of Economics at the University of Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1, France IRENE DINGELDEY is Head of the research unit 'Changes in the Working Society', Institute of Work and Labour in the University of Bremen, Germany FRANZISKA EHRLER is a Scientific Collaborator at the Swiss Conference for Social Aid and Welfare and a research assistant at the Centre of Competence for Public Management at the University of Bern, Switzerland ANNE EYDOUX is Senior Lecturer in Economics, Researcher at the CRESS-Lessor, University of Rennes 2, France, and Associate Researcher at the Centre for Employment Studies PAOLO R. GRAZIANO is Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, Italy, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Studies, Sciences-Politiques, Paris, France VAPPU KARJALAINEN is Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki and a Docent in Rehabilitation Science, University of Lapland, Finland RENATE MINAS is Associate Professor of Social Work at Stockholm University, Sweden, and a Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, Sweden ANNELIES RAUÉ is Research Assistant at the Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) at Columbia University, USA FRITZ SAGER is Professor of Political Science at the Centre of Competence for Public Management, University of Bern, Switzerland PEPPI SAIKKU is Researcher at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) in Helsinki,Finland JI?I WINKLER is Associate Professor in Social Policy and Social Work at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic SHARON WRIGHT is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Stirling, UK

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List of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements The Governance of Active Welfare States; R.van Berkel, W.de Graaf & T.Sirovátka The Administration of Income Provision and Activation Services; R.van Berkel Accelerating Governance Reforms: The French Case; A.Eydoux & M.Béraud Fragmented Governance Continued: The German Case; I.Dingeldey Steering with Sticks, Rowing for Rewards: The New Governance of Activation in the UK; S.Wright The Governance of Activation Policies in Italy: From Centralized and Hierarchical to a Multi-level Open System Model?; P.R.Graziano & A.Raue The Liberal Governance of a Non-liberal Welfare State? The Case of the Netherlands; R.van Berkel & W.de Graaf Marketization in a Federal System: New Modes of Governance in Unemployment Insurance and Social Assistance in Switzerland; F.Ehrler & F.Sager Governance of Activation Policies in the Czech Republic: Uncoordinated Transformation; T.Sirovátka & J.Winkler Decentralization and Back to Centralization: The Swedish Case; R.Minas Governance of Integrated Activation Policy in Finland; V.Karjalainen & P.Saikku The Governance of Active Welfare States in Europe in a Comparative Perspective; R.van Berkel, W.de Graaf & T.Sirovátka