The essay proposes an alternative understanding of social policy, focussing on social quality and as such bringing together biographical and societal development and as well institutional and communal concerns. On this basis the author proposes a definition of precarity that goes far beyond...

The present paper puts the argument forward that social policy analysis today lost very much its ground of systematically approaching its objective. Rather than analysing the objective relations, processes and their foundation political arguments and discourses are very much developed on moral...

Abstract AbstractSoziale Dienste sind mehr als nur kaufbare Waren, während von Politikern oft der Eindruck geweckt wird, sie müssen den gleichen Kriterien folgen, wie man sie beim Kauf eines Schrankes oder beim Gang zur Autowerkstatt anlegt. In der europäischen Diskussion hierüber wird...

In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the "Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending", which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree...