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    Enterprising the state

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    Author
    CONSIDINE, MARK
    Date
    2001
    Source Title
    Enterprising states: the public management of welfare-to-work in Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom
    Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Considine, Mark
    Affiliation
    Arts: Centre for Public Policy
    Arts: Education Policy and Management
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    Book Chapter
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    Considine, Mark (2001) Enterprising the state. Enterprising states: the public management of welfare-to-work in Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, Chapter 1, pp. 3-18. Cambridge University Press.
    Access Status
    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/33438
    Abstract
    Perhaps there once was a time when the terms ‘state’, ‘market’ and ‘bureaucracy’ had settled meanings and when the institutions which they helped define had standard, widely understood purposes. If so this is certainly a book about the closing of that era and about a radical set of changes that now seeks to alter the nature of governance in many advanced capitalist states. The particular reform strategies we will identify in four countries seeking will help us map the contours of wider changes in the nature of contemporary governance. The front-line reinventions in these four countries spell-out the central characteristics of a process of change which can be defined as the enterprising of the state. This transformation is something less than a final accomplishment. Process is often more revealing than structure. The enterprising activity takes root in forms of managerialism, contractualism and reinvention within programs aimed at both the work of officials and the identity of citizen-clients. As such it constitutes a new transition model for systems of public action which are seeking ways to meet the challenges of globalisation and the imperatives of new levels of cultural diversity (Jessop, 1991; Lash and Urry,1987).
    Keywords
    Welfare recipients--Employment; Insurance; Unemployment; Public administration

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