Analysis of the change of governance in activating labour market policy in Denmark, the UK and Germany supports the restructuring thesis advanced in the course of the debate on how to classify the change in the welfare state. New objectives, such as 'the promotion of employability', have been...

Im Mittelpunkt des vorliegenden Artikels steht die Frage, inwiefern mit der Umsetzung aktivierender Arbeitsmarktpolitik ein Wandel von governance bzw. Steuerungsformen verbunden ist. Dazu wird die Umsetzung aktivierender Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Dänemark, Deutschland und Großbritannien in drei...

Some scholars of social policy claim that the traditional post war Keynesian Welfare State has been transformed towards a Schumpeterian Workfare State (Jessop 1994, Tor-fing 1999a). Others conceptualise welfare state reform as transformation towards an Enabling (Gilbert/Gilbert 1989), Activating...

Introduction -- The individualisation of minimum income schemes' policies -- The institutional context of the German minimum income scheme -- Individual perspectives on the German minimum income scheme as institutional context and biographical situation -- Theoretical framework : long-term...