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The Governance of Educational Welfare Markets
Daniel Pop and Cristina Stanus
2015
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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.
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Keywords
- access to public services
- Bulgaria
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Czech Republic
- Eastern Europe
- Education
- Educational strategies & policy
- Europe
- European Social Fund
- Former Czechoslovakia
- Geographical Qualifiers
- governance
- Hungary
- Inclusion (education)
- Politics & government
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Social discrimination & inequality
- Social issues & processes
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Southeast Europe
- Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund
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- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DT Eastern Europe::1DTJ Czechia
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DT Eastern Europe::1DTK Slovakia
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DX Southeast Europe::1DXB Bulgaria
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DX Southeast Europe::1DXR Romania
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
- welfare markets