The Moral Economy of Activation

Ideas, Politics and Policies

Magnus Paulsen Hansen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2019
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-4996-9 (ISBN)

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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 job centres.

Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint from centre-left to centre-right, as well as for most international organizations. Through an in-depth study of four major reforms in Denmark and France, this book maps how co-existing ideas are mobilised to justify, criticise and reach activation compromises and how their morality sediments into the instruments governing the unemployed. 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.

Magnus Paulsen Hansen is Assistant Professor of Political Sociology at Roskilde University. He specializes in the role of ideas and evaluation in the legitimation of welfare state transformations.

The active turn(s);

PART I: MODELLING;

Tests, compromises and policy change;

Cities of unemployment;

PART II: ACTIVATION REFORMS;

From looking backwards to forwards;

Turning solutions into ‘structural’ problems;

Testing thresholds;

Intimate scandals;

PART III: PATTERNS;

Chemotherapy;

Infinite testing.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-4996-2 / 1447349962
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-4996-9 / 9781447349969
Zustand	Neuware