Making Markets in the Welfare State

Gingrich, Jane

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“…While the distributional character of these changes certainly reflects varying partisan political goals, we nonetheless see that the Conservative and Labour parties both built on a cost structure allowing back-end reform (Gingrich 2011). New technology, combined with the existing structure of state control, permitted both Conservative and Labour governments to introduce reforms empowering the state as a manager of health services.…”

Section: Reforms To the Nhs: Back-end Reformmentioning

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Varying Costs to Change? Institutional Change in the Public Sector

Gingrich

2014

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Many scholars have argued that social programs are marked by a logic of “increasing returns” that makes change difficult. Yet over the past decades, reformers across industrialized countries have introduced substantial administrative reforms in these services, even as entitlement reform remains politically difficult. This paper explains these shifts by breaking apart the logic of “increasing returns” into three distinct “costs to change”: technical, political, and expectations. Decreases in a particular type of costs produce different logics of institutional change—back end, informal, and front end—that privilege the state, professionals or private, or political actors in distinct ways. I support these claims by reexamining three cases that were considered exemplars of stability but that ultimately had major entitlement reform: health care in the United Kingdom and United States and welfare programs in the United States. I show that even before radical reforms occurred, reformers introduced distinct logics of administrative change that underpinned later changes.

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Section: Reforms To the Nhs: Back-end Reformmentioning

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Varying Costs to Change? Institutional Change in the Public Sector

Gingrich

2014

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“…Esta literatura sugiere que los procesos de cambio y el propio alcance de las reformas surgen de la interacción entre las ideas existentes en un contexto determinado, las instituciones y los actores (Bridgen y Meyer 2008;Gingrich 2011;Greve 2015;Pierson 2001:véase;Rothgang et al 2008;Seeleib-Kaiser 2008). En este caso, las ideas sobre las políticas activas de empleo en el marco de la UE y según los expertos nacionales, así como sobre los paradigmas de gestión pública y la interacción de los actores en el sistema de gobierno multinivel parecen haber afectado a la decisión de transformar el modelo existente.…”

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“…Tres factores parecen influir en la decisión de reforma de la gobernanza de los sistemas de protección social: el papel de las ideas en un contexto socioeconómico concreto, la ideología de los gobiernos y otros actores sociales y las variables institucionales (Bridgen y Meyer 2008;Gingrich 2011;Greve 2015;Rothgang et al 2008;Seeleib-Kaiser 2008).…”

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“…Para este grupo, que con frecuencia posee una fuerte capacidad de movilización de los profesionales y ciudadanos, la situación se agrava aún más en contextos de crisis, cuando el papel de los servicios públicos es más necesario (Seeleib-Kaiser 2008). Gingrich (2011) y Krumm (2016 han encontrado que todos los gobiernos, independiente de su color, recurren a instrumentos de CPP para la prestación de servicios, pero la primera autora también demuestra que la ideología determina el tipo concreto de instrumento y las justificaciones que los gobiernos esgrimen para usarlos. Bortolotti et al (2004) encuentran que los gobiernos de derechas tienen a utilizar más estos instrumentos y a comenzar antes estos procesos, mientras que los de izquierdas son más proclives a la producción propia según Plantinga et al (2011).…”

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Reformas de ida y vuelta en la gobernanza horizontal del bienestar: el caso de la colaboración público-privada en la intermediación laboral en la Comunidad Valenciana

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Pino

2018

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Las ideas de la Nueva Gestión Pública y los procesos de emulación de políticas europeas han extendido la colaboración público-privada como instrumento de gobernanza horizontal en la provisión de bienestar. Sin embargo, la búsqueda de una mayor participación del sector privado en la gestión de determinados servicios públicos no está exenta de dificultades. Un caso claro es la reforma de la intermediación laboral llevada a cabo en España desde 2013, cuyo alcance final ha sido muy limitado debido a factores como la crisis, el contexto de gobierno multinivel y la ideología de los gobiernos. En este artículo se analiza el caso concreto de la Comunidad Valenciana para tratar de entender las dificultades de reforma de este programa público y contribuir a la literatura con nueva evidencia empírica sobre la importancia de los factores citados en el grado de éxito de las reformas que persiguen incrementar la colaboración pública-privada en el sector de las políticas sociales.

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“…When markets are introduced in public services, the outcomes could vary since the public-private space can be manipulated to suit different interests. 43 The question for us is not the impact of the introduction of the market in social services, but why the public-private mix varies. We argue that three dimensions are crucial to understanding how states adapt legislation or initiatives they receive from the central government.…”

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States as laboratories: The politics of social welfare policies in India

2017

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This article examines the role of India's states in shaping the implementation and framing of social policy within India's federal system. Since the 2000s, the central government has overseen a substantial expansion of social welfare policies partly through a new push towards rights-based social provision. Most of the existing literature on the shift in social welfare coverage focuses on the national level. Yet, as we demonstrate in this article, it is India's states that are both responsible for an increasing proportion of total public expenditure on social welfare provision as well as determining the nature and effectiveness of that provision across space. In addition to being the level of implementation for centrally designed programs, some states have themselves innovated by designing new social welfare programs, expanding national schemes or improving the capacity of the local state to effectively implement programs in more rule-bound ways that are less subject to local political intermediation. Factors internal to political competition within states also impact the ways in which relationships between states and markets have been altered in the course of implementing a new generation of welfare programs. Drawing on a comparative research programme across pairs of Indian states, we identify three critical factors in explaining how state-level political environments shape social policy: the role of policy legacies in shaping policy frames; the role of social coalitions underpinning political party competition; and the role of political leaders in strengthening state capacity to achieve program goals. 2 States as Laboratories: The Politics of Social Welfare Policies in India Rajeshwari Deshpande, KK Kailash and Louise TillinThis article examines the role of India's states in shaping the implementation and framing of social policy within India's federal system. Since the 2000s, the central government has overseen a substantial expansion of social welfare policies partly through a new push towards rights-based social provision. Most of the existing literature on the shift in social welfare coverage focuses on the national level. Yet, as we demonstrate in this article, it is India's states that are both responsible for an increasing proportion of total public expenditure on social welfare provision as well as determining the nature and effectiveness of that provision across space. In addition to being the level of implementation for centrally designed programs, some states have themselves innovated by designing new social welfare programs, expanding national schemes or improving the capacity of the local state to effectively implement programs in more rule-bound ways that are less subject to local political intermediation. Factors internal to political competition within states also impact the ways in which relationships between states and markets have been altered in the course of implementing a new generation of welfare programs. Drawing on a comparative research programme across pairs of Indian states,...

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Making Markets in the Welfare State

Cited by 265 publications

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Varying Costs to Change? Institutional Change in the Public Sector

Varying Costs to Change? Institutional Change in the Public Sector

Reformas de ida y vuelta en la gobernanza horizontal del bienestar: el caso de la colaboración público-privada en la intermediación laboral en la Comunidad Valenciana

States as laboratories: The politics of social welfare policies in India

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