The term activation refers to a shift in social policies, through which individuals are given
more responsibility for their own social inclusion. This article provides a comparative …

Activation as a social policy topic has been investigated since the late 1990s and continues
to be popular in academic analysis and discourse. In this review, we highlight the wide …

This book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe,
while paying close attention to the oeCD and the European Union as proliferators of new …

2 Introduction problems. Furthermore, they argue that a stronger EU role in social policy
would increase the legitimacy of EU integration by preventing electorates from increasingly …

This article analyses recent developments in policies to promote the employability of
unemployed and economically inactive people in the UK. It discusses the extent to which …

Activation policies form the core of employment policies in most OECD countries. They are
part of 'active'welfare states and associated neoliberal forms of governance that seek to …

Over the past four decades many European welfare states have seen an increasing
involvement of the commercial sector in their mixed economies of welfare. One aspect of this …

This article analyses the UK's engagement with, and the subsequent impact of, the
European Employment Strategy (EES). In doing so, it provides an example of the process of …

In the mid-1990s, EU member states decided to coordinate their national employment
policies through a common European Employment Strategy (EES). Building on a systematic …

In der Entgrenzung des Nationalstaats setzt sich Soziale Arbeit zunehmend mit
Internationalität und Transnationalität auseinander. Dabei wird immer deutlicher, dass …