TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daniel Pop
AU  - Cristina Stanus
PY  - 2015
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035306880
TI  - The Governance of Educational Welfare Markets
T2  - A Comparative Analysis of the European Social Fund in Five Countries
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0688-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1067640
N2  - This book is a first exploratory inquiry into possible educational selectivity effects of the European Social Fund (ESF). It assesses the extent of the gap  between the social policy objectives set through regulatory competences in  multi-level governance and the structure of incentives it breeds in practice, with a broad range of implications for the capacity of the government to control for an  equitable distribution of services at the community level. The chapters emphasize  the educational selectivity involved in national policy decisions concerning ESF  implementation in the five countries, the role of informal mechanisms in fine-tuning  implementation, the negative effects of formalization and failures in accommodating  the complexity of goals which characterizes the ESF, as well as the overall fairness  of ESF implementation towards the most disadvantaged groups in society. The empirical  analysis suggests that social-service delivery contracting as an instrument of governance  is no longer regulating against risks for beneficiaries, but fuels increased social division  in access to public services.  The book is the result of the Educational selectivity effects of the European Social Fund project (July 2012 and December 2013), developed with the support of the Education Support Program of the Open Society Foundations.
KW  - Staat, Educational Welfare Markets, Politik
LA  - English
ER  -