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- Title
Los discursos sobre la modernización de los Servicios Públicos de Empleo: ¿hacia una nueva forma de gobernanza?
- Authors
FERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ, Carlos Jesús; MARTÍN MARTÍN, María Paz
- Abstract
The "crisis of the social issue" in the EU has led to a certain consensus in the need to renew the organizational and institutional model of public administration. The core of the reform implies important administrative changes in most of the European welfare states. Those changes are inspired on theories such as the new public management, management by objectives or partnership. Such changes involve both semantic ("sharing responsibilities", "effective costs", or the substitution of "citizen under an administration" by "consumer") and political (predominance of scattered forms of power and the individualization of responsibilities) transformations which operate in the framework of individuals and State relations. The paradigms of activation and flexicurity have been central in this public administration modernization project. This commitment with new forms of governance of social issues has important consequences for the political and moral foundations of social cohesion, and the Spanish case is not an exception. This paper aims at looking at those representations of "modernization" (as they appear in debates about the employment services restructuring policies) in detail as well as providing references to the trajectory of such reforms of public services since the early eighties to the beginning of the crisis.
- Subjects
MODERNIZATION (Social science); EMPLOYMENT; MUNICIPAL services; GOVERNMENT policy; WELFARE state; SOCIAL problems; POWER (Social sciences)
- Publication
Politica y Sociedad, 2014, Vol 51, Issue 1, p177
- ISSN
1130-8001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5209/rev_POSO.2014.v51.n1.42054