Cover -- ADMINISTERING WELFARE REFORM - International transformations in welfare governance -- Contents -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- ONE - Introduction: administering welfare reform -- Analysing welfare reform: the state of the art -- Public administration: the state of the art -- Conceptual framework -- Outline of the book -- TWO - Welfare reform as governance reform: the prospects of a governmentality perspective -- Welfare reform as governance reform -- Governmentality -- Towards a governmentality of welfare reform -- Workfare: participants, practices, processes, power -- Conclusions -- Part One: Participants: reforming the agents of welfare delivery -- THREE - State-third sector partnership frameworks: from administration to participation -- Social citizenship regimes in transition -- Formalising relations between states and third sectors -- From administration to participation? -- Conclusions -- FOUR - Shifts in welfare governance: the state, private and non-profit sectors in four European countries -- Welfare governance: general trends and expectations -- State, private and non-profit sectors: an overview -- Shifting welfare governance in four countries -- Analysis: general trends in welfare governance? -- Power struggles: the missing link? -- Shifts in welfare governance: final reflections -- FIVE - From charity to 'not-for-profit':changes in the role and structure of voluntary social service agencies -- The change in governance from 'Keynesian welfare' to the 'free market' -- The US and PRWORA -- The research -- Changes in structure and philosophy -- Professionalisation -- The deserving poor -- Conclusions -- Part Two: Practices: the welfare governance of street-level practices -- SIX - 'Ending welfare as we know it': welfare reform in the US.

The US social security framework -- The state response to welfare reform -- The response of welfare delivery organisations to welfare reform -- Effects of welfare reform on recipients -- Conclusions -- SEVEN - The new governance of Australian welfare: street-level contingencies -- Theorising the new governance of Australian welfare -- Welfare police or protectors of the vulnerable? -- The rise and demise of the One-to-One Service -- From risk management to Getting it Right -- Conclusions -- EIGHT - The administration of transformation: a case study of implementing welfare reform in the UK -- Delivering welfare reform: a street-level perspective -- Towards a new governance of social security? -- New governance in practice: balancing tensions -- The introduction of the New Deal for Young People (18-24) -- Redefining the welfare subject: the new language from a user's perspective -- Conclusions -- Part Three: Processes: the changing spaces of welfare governance -- NINE - Administering global welfare: public management, governance and the new role of INGOs -- The social policy context and globalisation -- The INGO sector, NPM and multilateralism -- Global governance and strategic configuration -- Conclusions -- TEN - The fight against unemployment as a main concern of European social policy: the implications of a new, local-level approach -- Welfare state regimes: different answers to unemployment -- Potentialities and implications of a European Employment Strategy -- The OMC and the field of employment -- Territorial Employment Pacts (TEPs) -- The importance of the local-level approach -- Reflections on the impact of the OMC on the Portuguese welfare state -- Conclusions -- ELEVEN - From government fragmentation to local governance: welfare reforms and lost opportunities in Italy -- From welfare government to welfare governance.

The Italian welfare system -- From passive to active social assistance schemes -- The changing scenario and new forms of governance -- Some critical issues in the transformation trend -- The actors of local governance arrangements -- New forms of governance and underlying processes -- TWELVE - Reforming welfare governance: reflections -- Welfare administration: changing participants, processes and practices -- Governance and governmentality -- The future of welfare state research -- Index -- Also available from The Policy Press.